Artist	Song
Bob Dylan	With God On Our Side
from The Times They Are A-Changin' (2005)
John Lennon	Imagine
from Imagine (Remastered) (2010)
The Rolling Stones	Sympathy for the Devil
from Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (2005)
The Who	Won't Get Fooled Again
from Who's Next (1995)
Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run
from Bruce Springsteen: Greatest Hits (1995)
Van Morrison	Sweet Thing
from Astral Weeks (2007)
Stevie Wonder	Higher Ground
from Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection (2002)
Marvin Gaye	What's Going On
from Number 1's: Marvin Gaye (2007)
The Clash	London Calling
from The Singles (2007)
Ramones	Blitzkreig Bop
from Hey Ho Let's Go - Greatest Hits (Remastered) (2008)
Patti Smith Group	Ask the Angels
from Radio Ethiopia (Remastered) (1983)
The Sex Pistols	Anarchy In the U.K.
from Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (2007)
Television	See No Evil
from Marquee Moon (2005)
The Stranglers	No More Heroes
from The Stranglers: Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (1991)
Brian Eno	An Ending (Ascent)
from Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (2005)
Elvis Presley	Mystery Train
from Elvis At Sun (Remastered) (2004)
Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land
from This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 (1997)
Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
from Hank Williams: 40 Greatest Hits (1988)
Blind Willie McTell	Lay Some Flowers On My Grave
from The Ultimate Collection (2009)
Billie Holiday	God Bless the Child
from Lady Day - The Best of Billie Holiday (2001)

Comment:

Informed by folk, inspired by punk, and ignited into larger-than-lifedom by rock's raw power, U2 reached across continents, genres, and ages for the artists who stoked their musical fire. In "This Land Is Your Land," Woody Guthrie strums a guitar emblazoned with "This Machine Kills Fascists" while celebrating the beauty and majesty of his homeland (and taking a populist whack at fat cats in the verses they didn't teach you at summer camp). Articulate, political, and spiritual, Bob Dylan was — at 23 — already his generation's streetwise seeker with the mystical eye and razor tongue, reinterpreting American history, war by war, in "With God On Our Side." No less angry, the Clash rake pop culture over the white-hot coals of their political agenda with a stomping, slashing, snarling manifesto of punk apocalypse, "London Calling." And the Who take it one step further in "Won't Get Fooled Again," as Roger Daltrey explodes in a lung-shredding "Y-E-A-H-H-H-H!!!" over Keith Moon's blitzkrieg bash. From Hank Williams to the Sex Pistols, from Stevie Wonder to Van Morrison, we've got all the songs and sounds that shaped one of the greatest bands in rock history.

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