Artist	Song
The Seeds	Pushin' Too Hard
from The Seeds (1966)
The Troggs	Wild Thing
from The Best of The Troggs (1994)
The Shadows of Knight	Gloria
from Gloria (2005)
The Standells	Dirty Water
from The Live Ones! (2001)
The Music Machine	Talk Talk
from Turn On (2007)
MC5	Kick Out the Jams
from The Big Bang! - Best of the MC5 (2005)
The Stooges	I Wanna Be Your Dog (Remastered)
from The Stooges (2005)
The Velvet Underground	Rock and Roll
from Loaded (2005)
Suzi Quatro	48 Crash
from A's, B's & Rarities (2005)
Sweet	The Ballroom Blitz
from The Best of Sweet (1993)
David Bowie	Suffragette City
from Best of Bowie (2002)
Roxy Music	Virginia Plain
from The Best of Roxy Music (2001)
Brian Eno	Needles In the Camel's Eye
from Here Come the Warm Jets (2004)
Lou Reed	Vicious
from Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology (1992)
The Modern Lovers	She Cracked (Live)
from Precise Modern Lovers Order (Live) (1994)
The Runaways	Blackmail
from The Best of the Runaways (1987)
Flamin' Groovies	Shake Some Action
from Rock Masters: Flamin' Groovies (2005)
Graham Parker & The Rumour	Don't Ask Me Questions
from Howlin' Wind (1990)
Nick Lowe	Heart of the City
from Basher - The Best of Nick Lowe (1989)

Comment:

Burned out and bored with rock's [i]behemothness[/i], the class of '77 turned over record store bins and tore into [i]Trouser Press[/i] in a pop culture dig for rock's primordial swag. In Roxy Music's genre-bending "Virginia Plain," Andy Warhol and Ray Davies rendezvous with the Spiders From Mars halfway between the salon and the stage. Is it glam? Proto-punk? Art rock with a psychedelic twist? We compile, you decide. Suzi Quatro packs her skin-tight catsuit with bubblegum, metal, glam, and 98 pounds of bass-slashing machismo in "48 Crash." And the Seeds' "Pushin' Too Hard," plucked from history's dustbin by producer Lenny Kaye on his classic [i]Nuggets[/i] compilation, grinds its two simple chords into a ferocious, throat-shredding monument to primal rock 'n' roll. Punk's tangled roots snake across decades and continents, but we've got 'em — from Ann Arbor's Stooges to Andover's Troggs — right here.

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