Artist	Song
The Rolling Stones	Paint It Black
from Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (2005)
New York Dolls	Personality Crisis
from Rock 'n Roll (2006)
Chuck Berry	Roll Over Beethoven
from The Definitive Collection (2006)
David Bowie	Suffragette City
from Best of Bowie (2002)
T. Rex	Woodland Rock
from Electric Warrior (Remastered) (2003)
Iggy & The Stooges	Search And Destroy
from Raw Power (1997)
The Kingsmen	Louie Louie
from The Best of the Kingsmen (2006)
The Shangri-Las	Give Him a Great Big Kiss
from Leader of the Pack (1998)
The Animals	We Gotta Get Out of This Place
from Retrospective (2005)
The Who	My Generation
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Who (1999)
The Troggs	Wild Thing
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Troggs (2004)
Dick Dale and His Del-Tones	Miserlou
from Surfers' Choice (2006)
The Seeds	Pushin' Too Hard (Original)
from Travel With Your Mind (1993)
MC5	High School
from The Big Bang! - Best of the MC5 (2005)
Bay City Rollers	Yesterday's Hero
from Bay City Rollers: The Definitive Collection (2000)

Comment:

Some artists turned to the Mississippi Delta for inspiration; the Ramones turned on their AM radio. The tough-talkin’ sugar-and-spiciness of the Shangri-Las’ 1965 hit, “Give Him a Great Big Kiss,” mapped out a strategy for the Ramones’ bubblegum-in-a-bomber-jacket takeover. And while the girls were semi-tough, the Rolling Stones were never darker, never bleaker, than on “Paint It Black,” a song driven to the ragged edge by Charlie Watts’ demon-exorcising tom-tom workout, setting the tempo for the Ramones’ house-on-fire need for speed. The punk godfathers had an FM-friendly brother (or was it a sister?) in New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders, and you can [i]hear[/i] the family resemblance — a Ramones-esque wall of maximum fuzz — in “Personality Crisis.” And the hey-ho-let’s-go stickiness of the Sweet’s “Little Willy” lyric gloms onto your ears with the can’t-shake-it-loose tenacity of pop Velcro. From the Beach Boys to the MC5, the Ramones’ surfin’ safari took them across the dial, from Malibu’s sun-splashed shores to the Motor City’s smoke-belching silos — and beyond — in search of the sounds they turned into punk.

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