Top 1000 Songs #530-#521

#530 - "Dolls (Come On Baby Let's Have A Good Time)" - Primal Scream - Riot City Blues - The second and highest-ranking Primal Scream song on the list, "Dolls" was first brought to my attention on the soundtrack of the PS3 game Motorstorm. I've really gotten into the band's quirky Brit-Pop style since I first learned of them and this is their best song I've heard so far.

#529 - "Shattered" - The Rolling Stones - Some Girls - The sixth of twenty Stones tunes in the top 1000, "Shattered" was one of the band's best songs of the late 70's, as it seemed to embrace some of the '77 punk sound that was all the rage at the time.

#528 - "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" - Death Cab For Cutie - Plans - The second of three Death Cab songs on the countdown, "I Will Follow" is one of the saddest emo songs ever written, and that's saying something if you consider the genre. Oh, and the video? Just about the saddest thing you'll ever see in your life.

#527 - "Welcome To The Black Parade" - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade - The second and highest-ranking MCR song in the top 1000, "Parade" is the best Queen song written since the death of Freddie Mercury, with it's pompous lyrics and Bohemian-style movements and shifts.

#526 - "Sex Type Thing" - Stone Temple Pilots - Core - The third of six STP songs on the list, "Sex Type Thing" is a pulsing hard rock song that is popular among frat boys for the wrong reasons and everyone else because of it's great pace and solid beat.

#525 - "Longview" - Green Day - Dookie - The sixth of nine Green Day songs on the countdown, "Longview" was the band's breakthrough hit on MTV (which was still relevant at the time), and showed that they were capable of more than just the short and goofy 2 minute punk songs that Blink 182 would later achieve a great deal of success with. The chorus on this song is among their best.

#524 - "Lost Cause" - Beck - Sea Change - The third of nine Beck songs in the top 1000, "Lost Cause" is the best ballad in Beck's career and a huge departure from the type of rock we're used to hearing from him. The album it's on is a bit of a downer, but this song is one of his best.

#523 - "Civil War" - Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion I - The second of eight GNR songs on the list, "Civil War" was one of the band's last great epic songs and by far their most overtly political, as Axl, Slash and the boys tear through 20th century politics and question the point of our struggles.

#522 - "Holiday" - Green Day - American Idiot - The seventh of nine Green Day songs on the countdown, "Holiday" is the band's most political song and the best song off of their best album. It's just too bad that the album didn't convince more people to remove it's target from power.

#521 - "Ring Of Fire" - Johnny Cash - Greatest Hits - The second of six Johnny Cash songs in the top 1000, "Ring Of Fire" was his cover of June Carter's original. Cash flavored the song with mariachi music and created one of the first great songs of country or rock n roll.