Artist	Song
Junior Murvin	Police & Thieves
from Police & Thieves (Remastered) (2003)
Ramones	Blitzkrieg Bop
from Weird Tales of the Ramones (Audio Version) (2005)
Gene Vincent And His Blue Caps	Be-Bop-A-Lula
from Blue Jean Bop! (2002)
Bobby Fuller Four	I Fought the Law
from I Fought the Law - The Best of Bobby Fuller Four (2004)
Mott the Hoople	All the Way from Memphis
from Mott (Legacy Edition) (2006)
Toots & The Maytals	Pressure Drop
from The Very Best of Toots & the Maytals (2000)
Brenda Holloway	Every Little Bit Hurts
from The Very Best of Brenda Holloway (1999)
Equals	Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys
from All the Hits Plus More, Vol. 2 (Re-Recorded Versions) (2006)
The Kingsmen	Louie Louie
from The Best of the Kingsmen (2006)
Booker T. & The MG's	Time Is Tight
from The Best of Booker T. & the MGs (2006)
New York Dolls	Personality Crisis
from New York Dolls (1987)
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers	Roadrunner
from The Modern Lovers (2011)
James Booker	Junco Partner
from Junco Partner (2006)
Willie Williams	Armagideon Time
from Full Up: More Hits from Studio One (2006)

Comment:

Like a punk rocker's electric-blue dye job, the longer the Clash stayed in the public eye, the more their roots showed. Usually, bands start imitating [i]before[/i] innovating, but the London four-piece powered through pop music like a turbocharged Hoover going in two directions at once, picking up not only fragments from the past, but also the best from their peers. The group retooled Junior Murvin's reggae manifesto "Police & Thieves" by ditching his Curtis Mayfield-inspired falsetto in favor of Joe Strummer's 40-grit sandpaper rasp. The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop," with its speed-freak fuzz guitar, mapped out the sonic stomping grounds the Clash would invade so successfully — and so soon. And the Equals set a social agenda to a gut-rumbling, bass-heavy island beat in their 1970 U.K. Top 10 hit, "Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys." From [i]soca[/i] to soul, this is the bedrock on which the Clash’s sound was built.

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