Saturday, February 23, 2008

Top 1000 Songs #650-#641

#650 - "This Is A Call" - The Foo Fighters - The Foo Fighters - The first of ten Foo Fighters songs on the list, "This Is A Call" was never a big hit for the band, but it was one of the first to employ their take on the Pixies "quiet loud" dynamic.

#649 - "Black" - Pearl Jam - Ten - The fifth of twenty-five Pearl Jam songs on the countdown, "Black" was the band's first great ballad and such an important part of 90's culture that part of the guitar solo was featured in the final episode of Friends.

#648 - "Go With The Flow" - Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf - The sixth of sixteen QOTSA songs in the top 1000, "Go With The Flow" was the band's second release from their breakthrough album and features one of the great guitar riffs of the 21st century.

#647 - "Heresy" - Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral - The fourth of seven NIN songs on the countdown, "Heresy" was the second biggest hit off of the band's controversial but incredibly successful The Downward Spiral album.

#646 - "Red Vines" - Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2 - The seventh of eight Aimee Mann songs on the list, "Red Vines" features great verses and Aimee's finest chorus.

#645 - "Bitch" - Meredith Brooks - Blurring The Edges - The first and only Meredith Brooks song on the countdown, "Bitch" is far and away the best Alanis ripoff of all the Lillith Fair era songs. The song has a great chorus and a fantastic beat, but like many other songs with those qualities it was the only time that it's artist achieved success.

#644 - "Silent Lucidity" - Queensryche - Empire - The first and only Queensryche song on the list, "Silent Lucidity" was by far the band's biggest hit, though it's frequently knocked as a Pink Floyd ripoff.

#643 - "We Gotta Get Outta This Place" - The Animals - The second of three Animals songs on the countdown, "We Gotta" is a Vietnam-era protest song with a great chorus and is one of the most covered songs of the 60's.

#642 - "Crossroads" - Cream - Wheels Of Fire - The second of five Cream songs in the top 1000, "Crossroads" is a sort of a cover of an old Robert Johnson song and it features one of the first great guitar riffs of the classic rock era.

#641 - "Chocolate" - Snow Patrol - Final Straw - The first of three Snow Patrol songs on the list, "Chocolate" is one of the best second generation Brit Pop songs ever made and it helped to establish Snow Patrol as the second best band of the genre (behind Coldplay).

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