Top 1000 Songs #460-#451

#460 - "Alright" - Supergrass - I Should Coco - The first and only Supergrass song on the list, "Alright" is one of the best Brit-pop songs ever written and one of the best songs of the 90's that most people have never heard.

#459 - "Flagpole Sitta" - Harvey Danger - Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone - The first and only Harvey Danger song on this countdown or anywhere, "Flagpole" is one of the best songs from the ska fad that dominated 1996.

#458 - "Brass In Pocket" - The Pretenders - The Pretenders - The third of five Pretenders songs on the list, "Brass" is the band's biggest hit, though I prefer some of their harder rocking songs. The lyrics are a huge bright spot for this particular song.

#457 - "Violet" - Hole - Live Through This - The third and highest-charting Hole song in the top 1000, "Violet" is the song that best illustrates the rumor that Kurt Cobain wrote all of Hole's first few albums as this song is almost a de facto Nirvana song with it's slow-fast dynamic and it's brilliant chorus.

#456 - "Are You Gonna Go My Way" - Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way - The first and only Kravitz song on the list, "Are You" was his breakthrough hit and proof of his guitar chops from when he was smart enough to rip off Hendrix instead of aiming for The Beatles.

#455 - "Even Better Than The Real Thing" - U2 - Achtung Baby - The fourth of sixteen U2 songs on the list, "Even Better" was one of the biggest hits that the band had on their Joshua Tree follow-up, though it did foreshadow the lesser paths that they would go down in the 90's with it's experimental direction.

#454 - "Thunderstruck" - AC/DC - The Razor's Edge - The sixth of nine AC/DC songs on the countdown, "Thunderstruck" was the band's last great song, which is not to say that they've fallen as far as most great metal bands from the 80's, but it's been awhile since they've been in their prime. "Thunder" is a blues rock monster that could have sprung from the great Zep themselves if they had survived.

#453 - "I Can't Stand It" - The Velvet Underground - What Goes On - The seventh and highest-charting Velvet Underground song, "I Can't Stand It" is the band's best bluesy art rock song with a fantastic chorus and a great build throughout the song.

#452 - "People Who Died" - The Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy - The first and only JCB song in the top 1000, "People" was one of the great punk songs to come out of the New York '77 scene and the song provided the theme music to the Jim Carroll bio-pic "The Basketball Diaries".

#451 - "Landslide" - Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac - The sixth of seven Mac songs in the top 1000, "Landslide" is one of the most moving folk ballads ever written and one of the best acoustic songs of the 70's.