Bob Marley & The Wailers - And I Love Her (Beatles Cover)
The Wailing Wailers at Studio One
1965

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - How Long Do I Have To Wait For You (Ticklah Remix)
2007

The Equals - Police On My Back
Equals Explosion
1967

Who did it better The Equals or The Clash?

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Ska Jerk
Studio One, 1965

Danny Ray - Revolution Rock
1977

The Clash - Rock The Casbah (Live at Shea Stadium)
1982

Visioneers - Runnin’
Dirty Old Hip-Hop
2006

Little Dragon - Runabout
Machine Dreams
2009/2010

This song is on some Sheila E. 80’s electrofunkpop and it’s pretty amazing.

Ghostface Killah - The Sun (feat. Raekwon, Slick Rick, & The RZA)
Bulletproof Wallets
2001

Allow me to introduce you to my favorite Wu-Tang (related) track of all time. First of, it’s a song….about THE SUN. Yea, really. It’s a rap song devoted to THE SUN and how awesome it is and how it radiates energy and gives life and “can never be pussy, always come out, [and] sits right there even if you pull your gun out”.

In fact, it just might be one of my favorite songs, in general.

Secondly, Slick Rick’s verse kills everything. His flow in this song hasn’t aged a bit and his lyrics are nothing short of poetry. The way he says “it’s haaard to go back to work when your lunch break’s finished” is perfection.

Third, come on it’s a song about THE SUN!!! Maybe RZA was in the studio one day listening to The Velvet Underground’s Loaded and was like “yo I got it!!!…we need to do a song about the sun! …doodoodooodooot”. One can only imagine how the genius mind operates. The only bummer is that RZA couldn’t get this sample cleared so it never made Ghostface’s album. But thanks to the internet it’s here, and it’s been one of my favorites since I first heard it.

ED. NOTE: Based on “I wish we had three more of you”, I suspect Rae does not believe in global warming.

Jay Reatard - Night of Broken Glass
Night of Broken Glass 12”
2007

Mogwai - I Chose Horses (feat. vocals from Tetsuya Fukagawa from Envy)
Mr. Beast
2006

AND NOW…YOUR MOMENT OF ZEN

Nina Simone - Do I Move You (Version II)
1967

The Clash - Tommy Gun
Give Em’ Enough Rope
1978

Barry Gordon - I’m Getting Nuttin’ For Christmas (Somebody Snitched remix)

This isn’t like some dance-y club remix or anything, it just puts a hip-hop beat over it and sounds pretty good I think.

69 Boyz - What You Want For Christmas
1996

Nothing quite says Merry Christmas like Miami Bass booty music. On some 90’s Orlando shit.