Artist	Song
Van Halen	You Really Got Me
from Van Halen (2007)
Devo	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
from Devo: Greatest Hits (1990)
Patti Smith	Gloria
from Horses (1996)
Ramones	Needles and Pins
from Road to Ruin (Deluxe Version) (2005)
Santana	She's Not There
from The Essential Santana (2002)
Shelby Lynne	I Only Want to Be With You
from Just a Little Lovin' (2008)
Nina Simone	To Love Somebody
from The Very Best of Nina Simone 1967-1972 - Sugar In My Bowl (1998)
Sam & Dave	Gimme Some Lovin'
from The Best of Sam & Dave (2006)
Wet Wet Wet	Love Is All Around
from Best Of (2005)
The Smithereens	I Saw Her Standing There
from Meet the Smithereens! (Beatles Tribute Album) (2007)
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs	The Kids Are Alright
from Under the Covers, Vol. 1 (2006)
Los Straitjackets & Raul Malo	Black Is Black
from Sing Along With Los Straitjackets (2001)
Todd Rundgren	Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
from Faithful (2005)
Green Day	My Generation
from Kerplunk! (2006)
Robert Palmer	Not a Second Time
from The Very Best of the Island Years (2005)
Petra Haden	I Can't Reach You
from Sings: the Who Sell Out (2008)
Luna	Season of the Witch
from Lunafied (2006)
Jann Arden	To Sir With Love
from Happy? (1997)
Iggy Pop	Pretty Flamingo
from New Values (Bonus Track Version) (1999)
of Montreal	Friends of Mine
from If He's Protecting Our Nation, Then Who Will Protect Big Oil, Our Children (2007)

Comment:

If you think some of your favorite songs, from classic rock to the punk revolution, were written by the bands that played 'em, think again. David Bowie Ziggy-zags his way back through the British hits of his pre-glam mod days on [i]Pin Ups[/i], reinventing everyone from the Who to Pink Floyd in a Spider-web of edgy elegance and re-cooling the '60s Brits for a new generation. Here's a shocker: punk godfathers the Ramones pay a note-perfect tribute to the Searchers' "Needles and Pins," and actually [i]slow it down[/i] just a hair. On the other hand, Patti Smith's stream-of-consciousness reimagination of Van Morrison in "Gloria: In Excelsis Deo" is nearly unrecognizable until "G-L-O-R-I-A!!!" explodes like lava from a volcano. And Devo utterly [i]mutates[/i] the Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" into a herky-jerk fidget-fest of new wave wonder. From Van Halen to Green Day, from Iggy Pop to Of Montreal, we've got five decades' worth of your favorite artists who just can't get enough of the mods and rockers who made the U.K. pop's HQ.

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