Top 1000 Songs #470-#461

#470 - "Don't You Forget About Me" - The Simple Minds - Glittering Prize - The first and only Simple Minds song on the list, "Don't You" is best known as the song that plays at the end of 80's classic "The Breakfast Club" and features one of the best choruses of the decade.

#469 - "Kick Out The Jams" - The MC5 - Babes In Arms - The first and only MC5 song on the countdown, "Kick" is one of the great songs in all of proto-punk and is one of the first songs to truly embrace the possibilities of punk sounds and styles.

#468 - "High & Dry" - Radiohead - The Bends - The third of eight Radiohead songs in the top 1000, "High & Dry" is the band's best pure ballad and features an incredible chorus.

#467 - "Keep The Car Running" - The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - The third and highest-charting Arcade Fire song on the list is the band's first single from their second album, 2007's best album Neon Bible. The song borrows from John Cafferty, Bruce Springsteen and The Hooters to create the band's most accessible sound to date.

#466 - "No Rain" - Blind Melon - Blind Melon - The first and only Blind Melon song in the top 1000, "No Rain" is one of the great one-hit wonder songs of the 90's. The band is making a comeback now, though obviously they'll be doing it without lead singer Shannon Hoon, whose death ended the band during their original run.

#465 - "All I Know" - The Screaming Trees - Dust - The fifth of six Screaming Trees songs on the countdown, "All I Know" was the band's "breakthrough" hit as it enjoyed a lot of airplay on MTV during the grunge hey-day of the early 90's. Unfortunately, success didn't follow for the band, though their music continued to be excellent.

#464 - "Southern Cross" - Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young - Daylight Again - The second of three CSNY songs on the list, "Southern Cross" features the band's most sweeping and best chorus as well as some of the best vocal performances in their catalog.

#463 - "Michael" - Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand - The third of six Franz songs in the top 1000, "Michael" is the most highly-charged and frenetic song that the band has ever recorded with an insane breakdown chorus that's among the best constructed of the 21st century.

#462 - "Don't Stop" - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - The fifth of seven Fleetwood Mac songs on the countdown, "Don't Stop" is the hopeful song on an album that's best-known for it's peppy songs about heartbreak and betrayal. The song is still a staple on easy listening, adult contemporary and classic rock stations.

#461 - "Fire" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Rare As Love - The fourth of nine Hendrix songs on the list, "Fire" features a remarkably simple guitar hook paired with lyrics that for once in rock history are LESS dirty than they appear and a great chorus and you have one of the great rock songs of the 60's.