Top 1000 Songs #210-#201

#210 - "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" - Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children - #4/4 - Manson's first hit is also his best, as his cover of the Eurythmics' 80's classic is creepy beyond belief and intense to the point of being frightening.

#209 - "Across The Universe" - The Beatles - Let It Be - #13/22 - This trippy and sweeping song was one of the Beatles' last great hits. The song has been covered multiple times over the years, but no one has ever topped the Fab Four's original version.

#208 - "Everybody Knows" - Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man - #3/3 - One of the most sarcastic songs ever written, "Everybody Knows" is Cohen's most brilliant song with clever lyrics and a pulsing beat throughout.

#207 - "Oliver's Army" - Elvis Costello - Armed Forces - #8/11 - Speaking of sarcastic, is there any man in rock history who did it better than Elvis Costello? This song, from his punk period, is a classic example of that attitude.

#206 - "Wolf Like Me" - T.V. On The Radio - Return Cookie Mountain - #1/1 - With it's pounding beat, weird vocals and intense lyrics, "Wolf Like Me" might be the best song of the 21st Century so far, even though you've probably never heard it on the radio.

#205 - "November Rain" - Guns N Rose - Use Your Illusion I - #6/8 - The piano solo at the start, the insane video, the story told within the lyrics, the breakdown at the end, and most of all the legendary guitar solo towards the end of the song (there are actually several great guitar solos in this epic tune). All of thse elements add up to the last great song from one of the last great rock bands of the classic rock era before alternative and indie bands took over.

#204 - "Head Like A Hole" - Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine - #6/7 - The first great song in the career of one of the best bands of the 90's, "Head Like A Hole" is a song about rebelling against power and authority, a common theme in the band's catalog, but it's the passion and intensity that makes this song great.

#203 - "Rooster" - Alice In Chains - Dirt - #5/8 - AIC tells the story of a band member's Vietnam War hero father, a sad and sweeping epic that defined grunge at a time when the genre was just gaining traction at the time this song came around.

#202 - "This Is Radio Clash" - The Clash - Greatest Hits - #13/18 - The Clash experimented with many genres of music throughout their career and this song is no exception, as it uses elements of the brand new at the time hip hop genre to enhance this track and make it legendary.

#201 - "Foxy Lady" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? - #8/9 - Hendrix crafts yet another legendary guitar hook in this song, one of the most famous hooks of all-time actually. They lyrics aren't all that impresive, but the way the song is constructed with the incredible hook serving as the backbone more than makes up for any lyrical shortcomings the song may have.