Top 1000 Songs #450-#441

#450 - "Manic Depression" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Have You Ever Been Experienced - The fifth of nine Hendrix songs on the list, "Manic Depression" has a great guitar progression for a slow song and some of Jimi's best lyrics.

#449 - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The first of two Band songs on the countdown, "Dixie" was a great song performed by a band that in no way supported the overall message of the song or it's politics. That being said, it's one of the best-written songs of the classic rock era.

#448 - "Desire" - U2 - Rattle & Hum - The fifth of sixteen U2 songs in the top 1000, "Desire" is the biggest hit off of the band's transition album that landed smack in the middle of their two greatest and most successful LPs.

#447 - "Who Do You Love" - George Thorogood And The Delaware Destroyers - Move It On Over - The second and highest-charting GT song in the top 1000, "Who Do You Love" is the band's amped up cover of an old blues classic that brought a good song into the modern era and made it great.

#446 - "Do The Evolution" - Pearl Jam - Yield - The twelfth of twenty-five Pearl Jam songs on the list, "Do The Evolution" features one of the band's greatest guitar riffs, one of it's greatest solos and the band's most rebellious punk lyrics to that point by far. In short, great tune.

#445 - "Shine On You Crazy Diamond: Part 1" - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - The fourth of fourteen Floyd songs on the countdown, "Shine On" was the band's tribute to it's original lead singer Syd Barrett and provides the centerpiece to one of their best albums track to track.

#444 - "With A Little Help From My Friends (Live)" - Joe Cocker - Live At Woodstock - The third and highest-charting Cocker song in the top 1000, "With A Little" is one of the rare covers that vastly surpasses the original, as this song was used not only as the highlight of the Woodstock festival (the respectable one), but as the greatest TV theme song of all time, The Wonder Years.

#443 - "Working Class Hero" - John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band - The third of five Lennon songs on the countdown, "Working Class Hero" is the legend's bitter song about the failures he sees in the world and what it would take to save us from ourselves.

#442 - "A Day In The Life" - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The eleventh of twenty-two Beatles songs on the list, "A Day In The Life" is the experimental rock climax of the band's most widely acclaimed (if not best) album. The song itself is really more of a series of shorter songs that vary back and forth in style and sound leading to a thundering crescendo with a full orchestra playing the sounds of the end of the world.

#441 - "Square One" - Tom Petty - Highway Companion - The tenth of 17 Petty songs on the list, "Square One" is the rock great's latest brilliant song and one of his most heartbreaking ballads with a sharp tearjerking chorus as it's highlight.