Top 1000 Songs #180-#171

#180 - "Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - #8/10 - Bowie's most famous guitar riff is a highlight of this pivotal song in the artist's legendary, career-defining concept album that cast him in the title role and set the high-water mark for all glam-rock that would ever come to pass.

#179 - "Instant Karma!" - John Lennon - Shaved Fish - #4/5 - The climactic verse of this brilliant song's chorus "And We All Shine On, Like The Moon and the Stars And The Sun" has to be one of the most famous and significant lyrics in classic rock history. Easily one of John's finest solo songs, though still a ways behind the best, which we'll see later... much later.

#178 - "Respect" - Aretha Franklin - Respect - #2/2 - The most famous "feminist" song in rock n roll (the song was written by Otis Redding and actually was very sexist), "Respect" is Aretha's best song and one of the best songs of the 1960's.

#177 - "Good Fortune" - P.J. Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - #4/4 - Harvey's best song is also her most electric, with a chorus that highlights the best aspects of her wild, desperate music.

#176 - "Here's Your Future" - The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine - #1/1 - For a band that most people have never heard of, The Thermals may be the best political punk band in the world at the moment. This song, which uses biblical stories to point out religion's failings, is by far their most intense and melodical.

#175 - "Fallen" - Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better - #5/6 - The best song off of FF's second album, "Fallen" starts out with a killer riff and builds to a faster and even better riff for the chorus. This is about as good as indie dance punk has ever gotten.

#174 - "Good Times Bad Times" - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I - #17/24 - One of Zeppelin's best straight-forward blues rock songs, "Good Times" combines a monster riff with clever lyrics and an outstanding chorus.

#173 - "Creep" - Radiohead - Pablo Honey - #6/8 - Radiohead's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Creep" was a megahit that brought the band to the front of the alt-rock scene and became so popular that it almost destroyed the band. No song better embraces teen angst than this one.

#172 - "One Armed Scissor" - At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command - #3/3 - ATDI's best song was the hit that should have made the band the heirs to the just broken-up Rage Against The Machine. The song has a strong political theme, great lyrics and a monster chorus full of passion and desperation. Of course, they broke up a few days after they became stars, so it never did work out for the band, but the greatness remains.

#171 - "Lake Of Fire (Unplugged)" - Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York - #10/15 - The biggest new song off of Nirvana's last "real" album, "Lake Of Fire" is a cover of an old Meat Puppets song, though let's face it, by now Kurt's laid permanent claim to the song with it's dark lyrics and strange chorus.