Artist	Song
Bob Dylan	Maggie's Farm
from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1995)
Woody Guthrie	Jesus Christ
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	All Along the Watchtower
from Experience Hendrix - The Best of Jimi Hendrix (2010)
Patti Smith	Dancing Barefoot
from Land (1975-2002) [Remastered] (2002)
The Righteous Brothers	Unchained Melody
from The Very Best of the Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (1991)
Frank Sinatra	Night and Day
from Classic Sinatra - His Great Performances, 1953-1960 (2000)
Lou Reed	Satellite of Love
from Platinum & Gold Collection (2004)
Johnny Cash	Don't Take Your Guns to Town
from The Essential Johnny Cash (1955-1983) (1998)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Fortunate Son
from Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits (2006)
The Rolling Stones	Paint It Black
from Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (2005)
Ramones	Beat On the Brat
from Hey Ho Let's Go - Greatest Hits (Remastered) (2008)
Kraftwerk	Neon Lights
from The Man Machine (Remastered) (2009)
Leonard Cohen	Tower of Song
from I'm Your Man (1988)
The Skids	The Saints Are Coming (Remastered)
from The Very Best of The Skids (2008)
John Lennon, Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band	Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
from Power to the People - The Hits (Remastered) (2010)

Comment:

New wave novelty to rock 'n' roll holy grail: there's an ear-grabbing kernel in each one of these songs that U2 popped — no, [i]blew up[/i] — into something epic. Anger, sorrow, frustration, and, finally, despair boil over in a seething mix of punk, politics, and prayer in the Skids' "The Saints Are Coming," jointly resurrected by U2 and Green Day. Technically speaking, Bob Dylan wrote "All Along the Watchtower," but he himself said, "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way . . . He probably improved upon it." Good enough for us; like U2, like [i]Dylan himself[/i], you're gonna be blown away by Jimi's version. And from Woody Guthrie to the Rolling Stones, from Leonard Cohen to Kraftwerk, now you can hear the songs just the way U2 did . . . before making them their own.

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