Il CBGB, il club musicale del Lower East Side di New York che divenne il centro della crescita della scena punk rock della Grande Mela negli anni '70, con band come Television, Ramones, Blondie e immediatamente dopo Patti Smith e Talking Heads, viene celebrato con un cofanetto di 4 CD intitolato "CBGB: A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986" che uscirà il prossimo 30 gennaio.
Questo il comunicato dell'etichetta Cherry Red Records: "Nel dicembre 1973 Hilly Kristal – una sua foto davanti al club è sulla copertina del cofanetto – cambiò il nome del suo bar di musica roots da Hilly's on the Bowery a CBGB e modificò la sua politica musicale per ingaggiare principalmente gruppi rock. Molti di loro lo lasciavano indifferente ("Non piacete a nessuno, ma vi rivorrò", disse a Joey Ramone), beatamente ignaro di quanto importante sarebbe presto diventato il suo piccolo club."
Nel giro di quindici mesi, debuttarono i cinque gruppi che compongono il fiore all'occhiello del CBGB: i Television nel marzo 1974, seguiti dai Ramones in agosto, dai Blondie in ottobre, poi Patti Smith nel febbraio 1975 e i Talking Heads quattro mesi dopo. Nell'autunno del 1977, Patti Smith era l'unica a suonare ancora lì. Dopo quella prima ondata seguirono nuovi stili musicali: No Wave (Sonic Youth, Bush Tetras), post-punk (Ritual Tension, Khmer Rouge), mutant funk e R&B (James Chance & The Contortions, Mink DeVille), art-rock, hardcore punk (Bad Brains, Beastie Boys) e power pop (The dBs).
Il CBGB, il club, non esiste più, ma ciò che è accaduto tra quelle mura continua a risuonare in tutto il mondo.Tracklist:
DISC ONE
1 The Dictators – (I Live For) Cars And Girls
2 The Harlots of 42nd Street – S&M (I Can’t Live Without You)
3 The Magic Tramps – S&M – Leather Queen
4 Patti Smith – Free Money
5 The Brats – Be A Man
6 City Lights – Travelin’ Man
7 The Hounds – Call Me (Previously unreleased on CD)
8 Erasers – It Was So Funny (That Song That They Sung)
9 Ramones – Beat On The Brat
10 Stuart’s Hammer – Everybody’s Depraved (Live at CBGB)
11 The Planets – Come On Up (Previously unreleased)
12 Milk ‘N’ Cookies – Not Enough Girls (In The World)
13 Just Water – They Live By Night
14 Television – See No Evil
15 Mumps – Crocodile Tears
16 The Heartbreakers – Born To Lose
17 Testors – You Don’t Break My Heart
18 The Dead Boys – Ain’t Nothing To Do
19 The Senders – You Really Piss Me Off
20 The Electric Chairs – Fuck Off
21 Marbles – Forgive And Forget
22 Cherry Vanilla – Hard As A Rock
23 Tuff Darts – Fun City
24 Talking Heads – A Clean Break (Let’s Work) (Live)
DISC TWO
1 Suicide – Ghost Rider
2 Pure Hell – I Feel Bad
3 Helen Wheels – Room To Rage
4 Blondie – Picture This
5 Mars – Helen Forsdale
6 Come On – Don’t Walk On The Kitchen Floor
7 Mink Deville – “A” Train Lady
8 The Heat – Instant Love (Previously unreleased on CD)
9 Genya Ravan – Aye Co’lorado
10 Theoretical Girls – Lovin’ In The Red
11 Richard Hell & The Voidoids – The Kid With The Replaceable Head
12 The Stillettos – Pink Stillettos
13 The Paley Brothers – Baby, Let’s Stick Together
14 Neon Leon – Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Alive (Previously unreleased on CD)
15 Revelons – The Way (You Touch My Hand)
16 New York Ni**ers – Just Like Dresden ’45
17 L.O.K. – Fun House (Previously unreleased on CD)
18 Material – O.A.O.
19 The Laughing Dogs – I Need A Million
20 Shrapnel – Combat Love
21 Peroxide – Heart Disease
22 Student Teachers – Christmas Weather
23 Tom Verlaine – Breakin’ In My Heart
24 Richard Lloyd – Number Nine
25 James Chance & The Contortions Jailhouse Rock (Live at CBGB 1978)
DISC THREE
1 The Cramps – Garbage Man
2 The Dots – I Don’t Wanna Dance (With You) (Previously unreleased on CD)
3 The Miamis – We Deliver
4 Model Citizens – Shift The Blame
5 The dB’s – Black And White
6 The Rattlers – On The Beach
7 Love Of Life Orchestra – The Revolution Is Personal
8 Urban Verbs – Next Question (Previously unreleased)
9 Sylvain Sylvain – Teenage News
10 Stimulators – Loud Fast Rules
11 Tot Rocket And The Twins – Reduced
12 The Bongos – Telephoto Lens
13 Outsets – I’m Searchin’ For You
14 Sorrows – Teenage Heartbreak
15 The Lounge Lizards – Do The Wrong Thing
16 Nervus Rex – There She Goes
17 The Cosmopolitans – Wild Moose Party
18 Polyrock – Your Dragging Feet
19 Lenny Kaye with The Lone Wolves – Child Bride (Previously unreleased on CD)
20 R.L. Crutchfield’s Dark Day – Arp’s Carpet
21 The Colors – Jealousy
22 TV Toy – (Don’t Blame It On The) Weekend
23 DNA – Blonde Red Head
24 The Rudies- Sherri Goodbye
25 The Raybeats – Tight Turn
26 Phosphenes – Asexual (Previously unreleased on CD)
27 Minor Threat – Straight Edge
DISC FOUR
1 Bush Tetras – Things That Go BOOM In The Night
2 Human Switchboard – (Say No To) Saturday’s Girl
3 Disturbed Furniture – Information *
4 The Necessaries – Back To You *
5 Chemicals Made From Dirt – Oriental Television *
6 China Shop – If It’s New
7 James Blood Ulmer – Open House
8 Nihilistics – You’re To Blame
9 Beastie Boys – Egg Raid On Mojo
10 The Individuals – My Three Sons (Revolve Around The Earth)
11 Rhys Chatham – Drastic Classicism (edit)
12 Unknown Gender – Boys-Girls (Radio) *
13 Khmer Rouge – Hinterland
14 Bad Brains – Banned In D.C.
15 Heart Attack – English Cunts
16 Outpatients – Fight
17 Vatican Commandos – Housewives On Valium
18 Sonic Youth – The World Looks Red
19 Jeff & Jane Hudson – Operating Instruction
20 Glorious Strangers – Deception *
21 Nona Hendryx – Transformation
22 Reagan Youth – No Class
23 Rat At Rat R – Assassin
24 Ritual Tension – Social Climber
25 The Ordinaires – Grace
* Previously unreleased on CD
