Artist	Song
Lynyrd Skynyrd	Sweet Home Alabama
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Lynyrd Skynyrd (1999)
Wilco	Misunderstood
from Being There (2008)
The Jayhawks	Waiting for the Sun
from Hollywood Town Hall (2008)
Beck	Guess I'm Doing Fine
from Sea Change (2002)
Nirvana	Heart Shaped Box
from In Utero (1993)
Pearl Jam	Alive
from Ten (Legacy Edition) (2009)
Stone Temple Pilots	Creep
from Core (2007)
Sonic Youth	Kool Thing
from Goo (1990)
The Sex Pistols	Anarchy In the U.K.
from Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (2007)
My Morning Jacket	One Big Holiday
from It Still Moves (2004)
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals	Magnolia Mountain
from Cold Roses (2011)
Lucinda Williams	Ventura
from World Without Tears (2003)
Tracy Chapman	For My Lover
from Tracy Chapman (2005)
M. Ward	Here Comes the Sun Again
from Transistor Radio (2005)
Uncle Tupelo	New Madrid
from Anodyne (2008)
Son Volt	Underground Dream
from The Search (Deluxe Version) (2007)
Drive-By Truckers	Birmingham
from Southern Rock Opera (2002)
Red House Painters	Song for a Blue Guitar
from Songs for a Blue Guitar (1996)
Clem Snide	Our Time Will Come
from Hungry Bird (2009)
Matthew Sweet	Divine Intervention
from Girlfriend (2006)
Blind Melon	I Wonder
from The Best of Blind Melon (2005)
Dinosaur Jr.	Crumble
from Beyond (2007)
Built to Spill	The Weather
from Ancient Melodies of the Future (2008)
The Walkabouts	Bordertown
from Setting the Woods On Fire (1994)
Shooter Jennings	Put the O Back In Country
from Put the O Back In Country (2005)
Pegi Young	Hold On
from Pegi Young (2007)
Danny Schmidt	Neil Young
from Parables & Primes (2005)
Blue Mourning	Heard It In a Neil Young Song
from The Blind Staggers Anthology (2009)
Les Stroud	After Neil Young Dies
from Les Stroud (2006)

Comment:

Godfather of Grunge, co-creator of country-rock, superstar singer-songwriter, avatar of alt-you-name-it — over five decades and countless scenes, Neil Young's carved his initials into every corner of modern pop music. It's more than just the garage-brewed wallop of his sound that led the likes of Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder to cite Neil as a prime mover; it's his better-to-burn-out-than-fade-away [i]attitude[/i], even quoted in Cobain's suicide note. You can hear it on Pearl Jam's breakout single, "Alive," and when the band got the chance to join Young on [i]Mirror Ball[/i], they didn't need to be asked twice. Rebel rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd owe Young for their first hit — in fact, they even name-check him — in the South's-gonna-rise-again defiance of "Sweet Home Alabama," written in response to Neil's "Southern Man." And echoes of vintage Stray Gators-era Neil reverberate through the entire alt-country movement, from the back-porch ramble-jangle of Uncle Tupelo's folksy "New Madrid," to the ragged elegance of Son Volt's brooding "Underground Dream," to the lo-fi sonic smash of Wilco's anvil-fisted "Misunderstood." Almost everywhere in this post-alt, post-indie, post-modern world, from M. Ward to My Morning Jacket, from Stone Temple Pilots to Sonic Youth, artists continue to build on the foundation Neil laid down, and we've got 'em all right here.

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