#940 - "Tasty Taste" - Welcome To The Cinema - Welcome To The Cinema - The first and only song from Brookings, SD's Welcome To The Cinema (a band that I've seen play a couple times in Pierre) to make the charts, "Tasty Taste" is a brilliant slice of indie dance rock that could have been a cut from the first Franz Ferdinand album.
#939 - "Heroin" - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico - The first of seven Velvet Underground songs in the top 1000, "Heroin" was one of the most shocking and unnerving songs to come out of the 1960's and one of many VU songs that helped to form the underground music scene in New York that would save rock n roll ten years later.
#938 - "Cold Shot" - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather - The first of three SRV songs on the list, "Cold Shot" utilizes Stevie's blues hook to it's maximum potential.
#937 - "Comfort Eagle" - Cake - Comfort Eagle - The only Cake song to make the top 1000, "Comfort Eagle" is a typically quirky cut from one of the most unique bands in all of rock.
#936 - "Hang Me Up To Dry" - The Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards - The only Cold War Kids song to make the countdown, "Hang" is an intense and creeping song with a fantastic chorus.
#935 - "No More Tears" - Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears - The first of three Ozzy songs on the countdown and one of the last truly great songs for the Ozzman, "No More Tears" is a creepy metal song that was also one of the last shots fired before that crappy nu-metal shit took over.
#934 - "Nearly Lost You" - The Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion - The first of six Trees songs on the list, "Nearly Lost You" was by far the band's biggest hit, becoming a decent-sized hit on MTV back when they used to play music videos... or music for that matter. Easily the most radio-friendly song the band ever made, but not quite my favorite.
#933 - "Crazy On You" - Heart - Dreamboat Annie - The second of three Heart songs to make the top 1000, "Crazy On You" has great guitar work and an excellent chorus. In other words, a Heart song from the 70's.
#932 - "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" - The Electric Light Orchestra - Afterglow - The first of two ELO songs, "Head" is a much more typical ELO song than the Beatles-esque song that tops it on the countdown. It's a very hypnotic, dreamy song with a sweeping chorus.
#931 - "Stuck In The Middle With You" - Stealer's Wheel - Greatest Hits - The only Stealer's Wheel song on the chart or on the radio for that matter, "Stuck" had it's big moment in the sun when Quentin Tarantino included the song in the torture scene of his movie "Reservoir Dogs".
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