Top 1000 Songs #590-#581

#590 - "A Chip Off The Old Block" - Big Timber - Lean Down - The fourth and highest-charting song from Big Timber, "A Chip" is by far the best song that I've been introduced to via the punk rock scene in Pierre.

#589 - "Clampdown" - The Clash - London Calling - The fifth of eighteen Clash songs on the list, "Clampdown" is one of the band's loudest and boldest calls to arms.

#588 - "Dazed And Confused" - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I - The sixth of twenty-four Zeppelin songs on the countdown, "Dazed" was the turning point where rock met metal and the blues met psychedelia.

#587 - "Fight The Power" - Public Enemy - Fear Of A Dark Planet - The first and only Public Enemy song in the top 1000, "Fight The Power" is the best political rap song ever written and served as the entire soundtrack for Spike Lee's classic film Do The Right Thing.

#586 - "Monkey Man" - The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed - The third of twenty Rolling Stones songs on the list, "Monkey Man" isn't a very well-known Stones tune, though it didn't make it into the climax of Goodfellas, but it's among my favorites.

#585 - "God Is In The Radio" - Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf - The eighth of sixteen Queens songs on the list, "God Is" was yet another brilliant song from one of the best albums of the new millennium.

#584 - "Everlong" - The Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape - The second of ten Foo Fighters songs on the list, "Everlong" was one of the band's biggest hits and features one of the band's best choruses.

#583 - "Southern Man" - Neil Young - After The Gold Rush - The fourth of six Neil Young songs on the countdown, "Southern Man" was the first shot fired in the Neil Young - Lynyrd Skynyrd war of the mid-70's with this angry tirade against the South during Jim Crow.

#582 - "Falling To Pieces" - Faith No More - The Real Thing - The first of two Faith No More songs on the list, "Falling To Pieces" was one of the first great songs to combine rock and rap into something that doesn't kill both genres of music.

#581 - "Born On The Bayou" - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country - The third of five CCR songs on the countdown, "Born On The Bayou" is the most disingenous of the band's songs, as they were from San Francisco and most definitely not born on a bayou. Nonetheless, it's among their best.