Artist	Song
Chris Montez	Let's Dance
from The Hits (2007)
The Trashmen	Surfin' Bird
from Tube City - The Best of The Trashmen (1992)
Ritchie Valens	Come On, Let's Go (Single Version)
from The Ritchie Valens Story (2004)
The Chambers Brothers	Time Has Come Today
from Time Has Come: The Best of the Chambers Brothers (1996)
The Rolling Stones	Street Fighting Man
from Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (2005)
1910 Fruitgum Company	Indian Giver
from The Best of the 1910 Fruitgum Co. (2001)
The Doors	Take It As It Comes
from The Doors (2006)
The Rolling Stones	Out of Time
from More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) [Remastered] (2005)
Max Frost & The Troopers	Shape of Things to Come
from Shape of Things to Come - Single (2006)
Jefferson Airplane	Somebody to Love
from Greatest Hits: Jefferson Airplane (2003)
The Animals	When I Was Young
from Retrospective (2005)
The Byrds	My Back Pages
from Greatest Hits (1999)
The Seeds	Can't Seem to Make You Mine
from The Seeds (1966)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
from Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits (2006)
The Troggs	I Can't Control Myself
from The Best of The Troggs (1994)
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers	I Love You
from L.A.M.F. (The Lost '77 Mixes) [Special Edition] (2005)
Super Heros Invasion	Spiderman
from Super Heros Invasion (2004)
Tom Waits	I Don't Wanna Grow Up
from Beautiful Maladies - The Island Years (1998)
Bobby Freeman	Do You Want to Dance
from Do You Wanna Dance (2005)

Comment:

Before the Ramones packed ’em with gunpowder, sparked the fuse, and split, these songs lit up a generation’s jukeboxes, record players, and request lines. Is Love’s “7 and 7 Is” the first punk song ever recorded? Frontman/composer Arthur Lee says so, but even if it isn’t, its helicopter-blade snare-bashing and fuzz-bomb power chords bored into the Ramones’ psyche like a cranial root canal, and the cut got a second life in the hands of the first true punk band. Mashing up the Rivingtons’ “Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow” and “The Bird’s the Word” like two junkers at a demolition derby, the Trashmen’s single-chord instant of pop excellence, “Surfin’ Bird,” spot-welds loony-bin lyrics to a goofball charm that rears its head a decade later in “Pinhead.” And even the Guinness-swilling gear-strippers in Motörhead couldn’t deny the power of Ramonesmania, so they hot-stamped an 86-second tribute so simple they spelled it out: “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.” From the Who to the Doors, from Jan & Dean to the Jefferson Airplane, these are the artists who sang the songs the Ramones had to have for themselves.

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