Artist	Song
Ramones	Outsider
from Hey Ho Let's Go - Greatest Hits (Remastered) (2008)
The Jam	In the City
from The Sound of The Jam (2003)
The Clash	I Fought the Law
from The Singles (2007)
The Replacements	Bastards of Young
from Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? - The Best of the Replacements (2006)
Hüsker Dü	Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely
from Candy Apple Grey (2008)
Cheap Trick	Surrender
from Authorized Greatest Hits (2000)
Queen	We Are the Champions
from Queen: Greatest Hits (1994)
The Who	My Generation
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Who (1999)
John Lennon	Working Class Hero
from Signature Box (Remastered) (2010)
Iggy & The Stooges	Search And Destroy
from Raw Power (1997)
The Sex Pistols	Anarchy In the U.K.
from Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (2007)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts	Bad Reputation
from Joan Jett and The Blackhearts: Greatest Hits (2010)
The Skids	The Saints Are Coming (Remastered)
from The Very Best of The Skids (2008)
Operation Ivy	Knowledge
from Operation Ivy (2007)
Buzzcocks	Ever Fallen in Love?
from Singles Going Steady (1992)
Dead Kennedys	Holiday In Cambodia
from Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (2004)
Bad Religion	Infected
from Stranger Than Fiction (2010)
Descendents	Suburban Home
from Milo Goes to College (2006)
The Dead Milkmen	Punk Rock Girl
from Beelzebubba (2006)
The Who	A Quick One, While He's Away
from Live At Leeds (Remastered) (1995)

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Pop, punk, power, panache, and philosophy; scratch the surface of Green Day and you'll find it all, and this is where [i]they[/i] found it first. We'll kick it off with the Who's primal stut-stut-stutter of acne-riddled angst in "My Generation," arguably the grandpappy of all things punk: loud, rude, and [i]unforgettable[/i]. A decade later, the Jam remodeled mod with "In the City," a teeth-bared, caffeine-overdrive, new-wave take on Maximum R&B. Meanwhile, Minnesota's favorite sons, the Replacements, serve up a bitter blend of irony and insight in "Bastards of Young," the anthemic alt-rock antidote to Springsteenian blue-collar optimism. And, ultimately, we bring it back to the Who again, just as a speedily maturing Pete Townshend (notice a Billie Joe Armstrong parallel here?) begins to craft the framework for rock operas to follow in the nine-minute mini-epic, "A Quick One, While He's Away" — likely the blueprint for "Jesus of Suburbia" and also covered as a bonus track on [i]21st Century Breakdown[/i]. From Cheap Trick to the Clash, from John Lennon to Joan Jett, we've got the crucial artists and key tracks that paved the way for a new — Green — Day.

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