Artist	Song
The Jam	The Modern World
from The Sound of The Jam (2003)
The Sex Pistols	God Save the Queen
from Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (2007)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Big Tears
from Rock and Roll Music (2007)
The Specials	A Message To You Rudy
from The Specials (2002)
Them	Gloria
from Still On Top - The Greatest Hits (Deluxe Version) (2007)
The Boomtown Rats	Lookin' After No. 1
from Best of The Boomtown Rats (2004)
The English Beat	Twist and Crawl
from Beat This! The Best of The English Beat (2004)
The Alarm	Sixty Eight Guns
from Standards (1990)
The Pogues	Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six
from If I Should Fall from Grace With God [Expanded] (2006)
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Hong Kong Garden
from The Best of Siouxsie and The Banshees (2002)
The Sorrows	I Don't Wanna Be Free
from Take A Heart (2010)
Tomorrow	My White Bicycle
from Tomorrow (2003)
The Stranglers	Peaches
from The Stranglers: Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (1991)
Mikey Dread	Everybody Needs a Proper Education
from Dread At the Controls (2006)
Joe Ely	Not Fade Away
from Live Shots (1993)

Comment:

Punk bands descended upon mid-'70s London like a swarm of guitar-wielding hornets, buzzing with passion, potential, and a powerful sting. Queen Elizabeth "celebrated" her Silver Jubilee with a Molotov cocktail of rebellion, power chords, and barbed-wire vocals, courtesy of the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen." While the Pistols waged class warfare with the musical equivalent of a sawed-off shotgun, blasting everything in sight, the Clash took more careful aim before launching [i]their[/i] political barrage. In "The Modern World," the Jam not only shared the Clash's contempt for the powerful, but they also lumped critics in with the bad guys, suggesting that fashionistas are, at their core, fascists. And much like the Clash, the Alarm plundered their record collection for inspiration, resurrecting Phil Spector's Wall of Sound drums, Ronettes-style, for their anti-authoritarian anthem "Sixty Eight Guns." Whether punk, new wave, or roots rock, though, [i]no other band[/i] in the Clash's era was in the Clash's class.

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