Top 1000 Songs #570-#561

#570 - "Wild Night" - Van Morrison - Into The Mystic - The first of two Van Morrison songs on the list, "Wild Night" was one of the few up-tempo songs that the artist ever produced and one of his best written.

#569 - "Orange Crush" - R.E.M. - Green - The sixth of twelve R.E.M. songs on the countdown, "Orange Crush" was one of the band's big breakthrough's prior to "Losing My Religion" and features the focused style that made the band the band to beat in the late 80's and early 90's.

#568 - "Misty Mountain Hop" - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV - The seventh of twenty-four Zeppelin songs on the list, "Misty" is by far the most Hobbit-heavy Zeppelin song and there have been quite a few and is driven by a piledriver crunch of a guitar lick.

#567 - "Big Me" - The Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters - The third of ten Foo Fighters songs in the top 1000, "Big Me" was the band's first single and a huge departure from expectations from the former Nivana drummer Dave Grohl.

#566 - "Celebrity Skin" - Hole - Celebrity Skin - The second of three Hole songs on the list, "Celebrity Skin" was written with help from Billy Corgan and is far different from the music of the band's first few albums. It's also one of the most biting satirical songs ever written.

#565 - "Start Me Up" - The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You - The fifth of twenty Stones songs on the countdown, "Start Me Up" is possibly the band's last truly great song before they slipped into self-parody. The song features a great guitar riff driving it from start to finish.

#564 - "Hey Jude" - The Beatles - Past Masters - The ninth of twenty-two Beatles songs on the list, "Hey Jude" was one of the last great songs that the band recorded before breaking up and while I've never been a fan of the extended ending to the song, the first half is brilliant.

#563 - "Roadhouse Blues" - The Doors - Morrison Hotel - The sixth of ten Doors songs in the top 1000, "Roadhouse" is the band's best blues song and one of the best drinking songs around.

#562 - "I'll Stick Around" - The Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters - The fourth of ten Foo Fighters songs on the list, "I'll Stick Around" was written by Dave Grohl about Courtney Love... and what an absolute bitch she is. The "I Don't Owe You Anything" breakdown towards the end of the song is an early sign of the "Screamed Verse" future that the band had coming down the road.

#561 - "Betterman" - Pearl Jam - Vitalogy - The ninth of twenty-five Pearl Jam songs on the countdown, "Betterman" is a sad and deeply moving song from the band's third album.