Top 1000 Songs #540-#531

#540 - "Freedom Of Choice" - Devo - Freedom Of Choice - The fifth and highest-ranking Devo song on the list, "Freedom Of Choice" uses Devo's typically quirky style to sing a punk song about democracy inaction.

#539 - "Jesus Built My Hotrod" - Ministry - Ministry (Psalm 69) - The first and only Ministry song on the countdown, "Hotrod" is the band's heaviest and most popular song, as it was featured prominently on the brilliant "X-Games Soundtrack".

#538 - "House Of The Rising Sun" - The Animals - Greatest Hits - The third and highest-charting Animals song in the top 1000, "House" is a cover of an old blues song and was one of the biggest and best songs from the original British Invasion.

#537 - "The Wind Cries Mary" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? - The third of nine Hendrix tunes on the countdown, "Mary" is one of the band's best electric blues ballads and features a slowed-down tempo that allows the lyrics to shine.

#536 - "Undone - The Sweater Song" - Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album) - The fourth of five Weezer songs on the list, "Undone" is one of the cheesiest titles for a popular song of the 90's, but if you ignore that the lyrics don't make any literal sense and just enjoy the atmosphere, you'll notice that it's a brilliant pop song.

#535 - "Over The Hills And Far Away" - Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy - The ninth of twenty-four Zeppelin tunes in the top 1000, "Over The Hills" is the perfect mid-career song for the band as it is right in between the blues rock of their early years and the heavy metal of their last few albums.

#534 - "Echo" - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Echo - The seventh of seventeen Petty songs on the countdown, "Echo" is the saddest Petty song in their catalog, as it's a heartbreaking ballad from the band's album that was created in response to a brutal divorce. Not the most uplifting stuff, but very moving.

#533 - "Hells Bells" - AC/DC - Back In Black - The third of nine AC/DC songs on the list, "Hells Bells" is a song so heavy that it's easily to believe that it's Metallica when you first hear it. The song is also used prominently at the Metrodome during Vikings games, so it gets bonus points for that.

#532 - "LDN" - Lily Allen - Alright, Still - The first and only Lily Allen song in the top 1000, "LDN" is a very deceptive pop song about how things are often darker than they appear at a casual glance. This theme is used perfectly within the song itself as you will think you're listening to a very different song if you pay attention to the lyrics versus if you don't.

#531 - "Teenagers" - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade - The first of two MCR songs on the list, "Teenagers" is a goth burlesque song about teenage rebellion and the reactions it gathers.