I spent a good part of the July 4th weekend listening to the Top 1,000 countdown on the local alt-rock station. Timing was weird because they weren't too sure when it was going to end (after starting on Thursday evening). It ended up finishing about 11:30 a.m. on the 4th, then did a replay of the top 50 later in the day since the bulk of the top songs would've aired in the middle of the night/early morning on a holiday.

It's an interesting list, and supposedly driven by listener votes, which may or may not explain some of the placement of some of the songs. The last part of the lineup (about the top 50 or so) seems like a "standard" list for top alternative songs ever, but it gets very random trying to figure what should go at 544 or 219 or 930. (For instance, how is "Everybody Hurts" ranked behind "Your Woman" or lots of other random bits like that.) I do know that they did one last potshot at The Darkness by putting them at No. 1,000.

I'd be interested to see your comments about the list. It did make for some fun listening because of utter randomness of it, plus the resurrection of songs that haven't been played on the station in a few years.