VARIOUS - CBGB: A NEW YORK CITY SOUNDTRACK [CD]

In December 1973 Hilly Kristal changed the name of his roots music bar from Hilly’s on the Bowery to CBGB and altered his musical policy to hire mostly rock bands. He was indifferent to many of them (“No one is going to like you guys, but I’ll have you back,” he told Joey Ramone), blissfully unaware of how important his scruffy little club would soon become. In the span of only 15 months, the five groups that comprise the CBGB’s pantheon all debuted: Television in March 1974, followed by Ramones in August and Blondie in October, then Patti Smith in February 1975 and Talking Heads four months later. Those five groups all quickly got record deals and became popular enough to outgrow CBGB’s. By the fall of 1977, Smith was the only one who was still playing there. What succeeded the Big Five was an array of new and retro styles, all of which feature here: No Wave (Sonic Youth, Mars, DNA, Bush Tetras), post-punk (Ritual Tension, Unknown Gender, Khmer Rouge), mutant funk and R&B (James Chance & The Contortions, Mink DeVille), art-rock bands (R.L. Crutchfield’s Dark Day, The Revelons, Erasers, Jeff and Jane Hudson) hardcore punk (Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Vatican Commandos, Beastie Boys), and lots of power pop (Sorrows, The dBs, The Rudies, The Miamis, The Paley Brothers) . The club’s best-known bands are present on this compilation but we’ve also revived interest in dozens of unfairly forgotten acts that, for a moment in time, made an album, EP, 45, or even a demo that crackled with innovation, wit, and joy. CBGB no longer exists, at least not in the physical plane, but what happened between those soot-filled, beer-stinking walls continues to reverberate around the world.

The Dictators - (I Live For) Cars And Girls

The Harlots of 42nd Street - S&M (I Can’t Live Without You)

The Magic Tramps - S&M – Leather Queen

Patti Smith - Free Money

The Brats - Be A Man

City Lights - Travelin’ Man

The Hounds - Call Me (Previously unreleased on CD)

Erasers - It Was So Funny (That Song That They Sung)

Ramones - Beat On The Brat

Stuart’s Hammer - Everybody’s Depraved (Live at CBGB)

The Planets - Come On Up (Previously unreleased)

Milk ‘N’ Cookies - Not Enough Girls (In The World)

Just Water - They Live By Night

Television - See No Evil

Mumps - Crocodile Tears

The Heartbreakers - Born To Lose

Testors - You Don’t Break My Heart

The Dead Boys - Ain’t Nothing To Do

The Senders - You Really Piss Me Off

The Electric Chairs - Fuck Off

Marbles - Forgive And Forget

Cherry Vanilla - Hard As A Rock

Tuff Darts - Fun City

Talking Heads - A Clean Break (Let's Work) (Live)

Suicide - Ghost Rider

Pure Hell - I Feel Bad

Helen Wheels - Room To Rage

Blondie - Picture This

Mars - Helen Forsdale

Come On - Don’t Walk On The Kitchen Floor

Mink Deville - “A” Train Lady

The Heat - Instant Love (Previously unreleased on CD)

Genya Ravan - Aye Co'lorado

Theoretical Girls - Lovin’ In The Red

Richard Hell & The Voidoids - The Kid With The Replaceable Head

The Stillettos - Pink Stillettos

The Paley Brothers - Baby, Let’s Stick Together

Neon Leon - Rock 'n’ Roll Is Alive (Previously unreleased on CD)

Revelons - The Way (You Touch My Hand)

New York Ni**ers - Just Like Dresden '45

L.O.K. - Fun House (Previously unreleased on CD)

Material - O.A.O.

The Laughing Dogs - I Need A Million

Shrapnel - Combat Love

Peroxide - Heart Disease

Student Teachers - Christmas Weather

Tom Verlaine - Breakin’ In My Heart

Richard Lloyd - Number Nine

James Chance & The Contortions Jailhouse Rock (Live at CBGB 1978)

The Cramps - Garbage Man

The Dots - I Don’t Wanna Dance (With You) (Previously unreleased on CD)

The Miamis - We Deliver

Model Citizens - Shift The Blame

The dB’s - Black And White

The Rattlers - On The Beach

Love Of Life Orchestra - The Revolution Is Personal

Urban Verbs - Next Question (Previously unreleased)

Sylvain Sylvain - Teenage News

Stimulators - Loud Fast Rules

Tot Rocket And The Twins - Reduced

The Bongos - Telephoto Lens

Outsets - I’m Searchin' For You

Sorrows - Teenage Heartbreak

The Lounge Lizards - Do The Wrong Thing

Nervus Rex - There She Goes

The Cosmopolitans - Wild Moose Party

Polyrock - Your Dragging Feet

Lenny Kaye with The Lone Wolves - Child Bride (Previously unreleased on CD)

R.L. Crutchfield’s Dark Day - Arp’s Carpet

The Colors - Jealousy

TV Toy - (Don’t Blame It On The) Weekend

DNA - Blonde Red Head

The Rudies- Sherri Goodbye

The Raybeats - Tight Turn

Phosphenes - Asexual (Previously unreleased on CD)

Minor Threat - Straight Edge

Bush Tetras - Things That Go BOOM In The Night

Human Switchboard - (Say No To) Saturday's Girl

Disturbed Furniture - Information *

The Necessaries - Back To You *

Chemicals Made From Dirt - Oriental Television *

China Shop - If It's New

James Blood Ulmer - Open House

Nihilistics - You’re To Blame

Beastie Boys - Egg Raid On Mojo

The Individuals - My Three Sons (Revolve Around The Earth)

Rhys Chatham - Drastic Classicism (edit)

Unknown Gender - Boys-Girls (Radio) *

Khmer Rouge - Hinterland

Bad Brains - Banned In D.C.

Heart Attack - English Cunts

Outpatients - Fight

Vatican Commandos - Housewives On Valium

Sonic Youth - The World Looks Red

Jeff & Jane Hudson - Operating Instruction

Glorious Strangers - Deception *

Nona Hendryx - Transformation

Reagan Youth - No Class

Rat At Rat R - Assassin

Ritual Tension - Social Climber

The Ordinaires - Grace

• Product Type: Audio CD
• Barcode: 5013929120488
• Release Date: January 30, 2026

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