Top 1000 Songs #230-#221

#230 - "Clocks" - Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head - #6/6 - The best song by one of the millennium's biggest hitmakers, "Clocks" is one of the century's best-written songs and features one of the most moving beginning riffs of all-time.

#229 - "Heart-Shaped Box" - Nirvana - In Utero - #7/15 - The best song off of Nirvana's last official album, "Heart-Shaped Box" features one of the band's best choruses and an insane video.

#228 - "Sixteen Military Wives" - The Decemberists - Picaresque - #1/1 - The Decemberists' only song on the countdown, "Sixteen" is a razor-sharp satirical take on America's foreign policy and academics.

#227 - "Space Oddity" - David Bowie - Space Oddity - #6/10 - Bowie's breakthrough song was recorded several years earlier but didn't become a hit until it was re-released to take advantage of the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the moonwalk. The song paints a vivid picture and tells an entire movie worth of story in only a few minutes of music.

#226 - "Tom Sawyer" - Rush - Moving Pictures - #3/3 - Rush's biggest brush with mainstream success is also their best song as the bombastic guitars and sharp lyrics of this song brought them from the classic rock 70's into their more prominent role in mainstream rock during the 80's.

#225 - "Come As You Are" - Nirvana - Nevermind - #8/15 - Nirvana's "ballad" or at least their slowest song, "Come As You Are" is yet another brilliantly written song from the band that brought indie rock to the mainstream.

#224 - "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" - The Clash - Combat Rock - #12/18 - One of the band's biggest and last hits, "Should I Stay" was a classic New Wave song, though it did betray the band's political history by being an essentially straight-forward relationship song.

#223 - "Hurricane" - Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits - #9/15 - Bob Dylan essentially wrote a novel about boxer Reubin "Hurricane" Carter and turned it into an epic song that tells the story of how Carter was falsely incarcerated for a murder he didn't commit. Carter was later released from prison.

#222 - "Bohemian Like You" - The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia - #2/2 - The Warhols never crafted a better riff or a better song than "Bohemian Like You", their pulse-pounding late-90's classic.

#221 - "All The Young Dudes" - Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes - #1/1 - Lesson #1 of becoming a successful rock band: When David Bowie offers you a song, you take the song. Hoople was always a talented glam-rock band but they had never scored a hit until David Bowie offered them their choice of this or his classic "Suffragette City". The band chose "Dudes" and the rest was history. They never did have another big hit, but "Dudes" was a big enough hit to leave a mark on classic rock forever.