Top 1000 Songs #150-#141

#150 - "Supernova" - Liz Phair - Whip-Smart - #1/1 - Not her biggest hit, but my favorite song from her catalog, "Supernova" has a great chorus and Phair's best lyrics.

#149 - "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" - The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not - #3/3 - Usually bands that get hyped through the roof by the British rock media fail to live up to expectations, but The Arctic Monkeys are the exception. Their debut single (after about 50 EPs) is a hell of a ride with sharp lyrics building to one of the best choruses of the 21st Century.

#148 - "Time" - Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - #6/14 - Dark Side Of The Moon is easily one of the greatest albums of all-time and "Time" is one of it's best songs. Dealing with a theme as grim as mortality, the song is predictably downbeat and somber, but one of the best-written songs of the 70's.

#147 - "Schism" - Tool - Lateralus - #8/9 - The centerpiece of Tool's official jump from mainstream metal into the world of prog, "Schism" can best be described as "crunchy" with it's spine-cracking beat, brilliant lyrics and epic build-up.

#146 - "19th Nervous Breakdown" - The Rolling Stones - Greatest Hits - #12/20 - One of the Stones' first great songs, "19th Nervous" is one of the most clever and satirical songs of the 60's and an early pre-cursor to the attitude-driven music the 70's would produce. The climax of the chorus is a highlight of classic rock.

#145 - "No One Knows" - Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf - #13/16 - The song that put Queens on the Modern Rock map, "No One Knows" is a slow-for-Queens song with a hell of a guitar lick driving it throughout.

#144 - "London Calling" - The Clash - London Calling - #14/18 - When history recalls The Clash 100 years from now, "London Calling" will be the song that is mentioned first. I prefer their earlier, punkier sound myself, but I can't deny that this song represents a high point on the career arc of one of the greatest bands of all-time.

#143 - "Where Is My Mind" - The Pixies - Surfer Rosa - #7/8 - The most famous song by The Pixies, thanks to it's inclusion at the end of Fight Club, "Where Is My Mind" is a very unusual song for the band, as they usually don't venture into the psychedelic, but considering how good this song was, it's surprising they didn't dip into the well more often.

#142 - "Iron Man" - Black Sabbath - Paranoid - #2/3 - And this would be the song where Black Sabbath invented heavy metal as we knew it through the 70's and 80's. From the creepy "I Am Iron Man" opening through the dark story told in the lyrics until the instrumental bridge in the second half of the song, this is one of many Sabbath songs that launched a thousand acts, many of whom would dominate popular music down the line.

#141 - "Ramble On" - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II - #19/24 - Usually when bands got all literary and wrote songs about science fiction stories the results are disastrous. In the case of "Ramble On", the exact opposite is true. Based on the Lord Of The Rings books, "Ramble On" is one of the greatest songs of classic rock and represented a clear direction change for the band from the slow blues rock of Zeppelin I to the faster stuff on II, a move that would ensure the band continued success for the rest of the decade.