Top 1000 Songs #400-#391

#400 - "2 Minutes To Midnight" - Iron Maiden - Edward The Great - #2/2 - The highest charting Maiden song on the list, "2 Minutes" is an intense speed metal song from the first great band to perfect the art.

#399 - "Black Math" - The White Stripes - Elephant - #5/10 - One of my favorite songs off of one of my favorite albums, "Black Math" features a monster riff from hell driving it through about 2 minutes of heavy punk that defies descriptions.

#398 - "Where The Streets Have No Names" - U2 - The Joshua Tree - #6/16 - One of the three mega-hits from U2's career pinnacle, "Where The Streets" is a sweeping epic of a modern rock song that helped the band cross over from merely great to the biggest band in the world.

#397 - "Slow Hands" - Interpol - Antics - #1/1 - One of the best new indie bands around, Interpol's best song features a driving guitar riff and one of the best choruses of the new millennium.

#396 - "Pure Morning" - Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing - #1/1 - Placebo is an underground indie pop band that has a series of great albums and this is their signature song, a hypnotic song with a chorus that's virtually an afterthought.

#395 - "Werewolves Of London" - Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy - #1/1 - One of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century, Warren Zevon had a series of tragically underheard singles leading up to this massive hit from the late 70's.

#394 - "Lateralus" - Tool - Lateralus - #3/9 - You don't hear very many songs over 6 minutes on modern rock radio these days, but if you do, they were probably written by Tool. "Lateralus" is a driving and crunchy metal song with a fantastic build to a thrilling climax.

#393 - "Dancing Days" - Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy - #12/24 - After four albums of crunching heavy metal and light hippie rock, Houses Of The Holy marked a transition period for the band as they started to experiment with new styles and sounds. "Dancing Days" is a prime example of this attempt as the song mixes traditional Zeppelin lyrics with eastern styles and flavor.

#392 - "Can't Hardly Wait" - The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me - #3/4 - The Replacements most famous and most successful song, "Can't Hardly Wait" builds throughout the entire song towards a brilliant chorus following several fake chorus breaks (this is something of a trend in the 80's, as one of the greatest songs ever written "Just Like Heaven" does the same thing).

#391 - "Because The Night" - Patti Smith - Easter - #1/1 - Patti Smith's only major hit, "Because The Night" is the first of many famous covers of the Bruce Springsteen original, which Patti lays into with gusto and claims as her own.