Top 1000 Bands #650-#641

650 - Sugar Ray - A pop rock band that had a bunch of hits in the late 90's. They never took their work too seriously, but it was a lot of fun.

649 - The Afghan Whigs - One of the big names in 80's alternative rock, The Afghan Whigs had a lot of great albums and recently made a comeback album.

648 - Disturbed - They're pretty damn bad these days but the band had two solid albums at the start of their career and had nu-metal's best song with "Down With The Sickness".

647 - Poison - Yeah, they're a hair band, but some of their songs are good despite the band's unsightly genre and style.

646 - Cypress Hill - They had a lot of potential for greatness, but they got pigeonholed as the "pot rappers" after one too many great songs about weed.

645 - Clutch - Carrying the torch of Monster Magnet, Clutch is the over-the-top glam metal band of the moment, singing songs that would be ridiculous if they weren't so stylish.

644 - The Simple Minds - A New Wave band that hit it big with "Don't You Forget About Me" AKA That Song from The Breakfast Club and had several other solid albums, though never another big hit.

643 - The New Radicals - One of the best one-hit wonder bands of all-time., The New Radicals had a huge hit with the U2 / R.E.M.-esque "You Only Get What You Give", a great song that has a really lousy ending, an ending which probably ensured they'd never have another hit.

642 - Motion City Soundtrack - One of the best pop punk bands around these days, Motion City Soundtrack has released several solid albums in recent years and should make a move into mainstream view in the near future.

641 - Filter - One of the biggest mainstream rock bands of the late 90s, Filter had a handful of great hard rock songs but they achieved their greatest success with "Take A Picture", a miserable attempt at a pop crossover that pretty much betrayed everything else the band had ever achieved.