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Ork Records: New York, New York (Box Set) - Good Records To Go
Ork Records: New York, New York (Box Set) - Good Records To Go

Ork Records: New York, New York (Box Set)

LP

4xLP + Book
4 x 150 gram LPs
49 tracks totaling 155 minutes
1 x monotone, tip-on slipcase
4 x monotone, tip-on jackets
1 x 120 page hard cover book

Four vinyl LP pressing. 49 total tracks, including previously unreleased recordings by Richard Lloyd, Alex Chilton, Feelies, Erasers and the first singles by Television and Richard Hell. Comes with a 120-page hard cover coffee table book featuring previously unpublished photos by revered NYC punk photographers David Godlis, Ebet Roberts and Roberta Bayley (Ramones). Also features a 37,000-word essay detailing birth of punk rock on 45, populated by iconic artists like Television, Alex Chilton, Lester Bangs, Richard Hell, the Feelies, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Blondie, and the Ramones. It all began with Terry Ork, a Jewish SoCal film nerd enthralled by Andy Warhol's posse as they made a transgressive surfing flick, who moved cross-country to manage a movie memorabilia shop on the grubby streets of the Lower East Side. Made in the shadows of disco and dereliction in late-'70s Manhattan, Ork Records: New York, New York is not just the genesis of punk, it is the birth of the New York City scene and indie culture as we know it.

In August of 1975, the world’s first punk record label was born. Ork Records: New York, New York is a tale of Terry Ork, a film-obsessed fugitive of Warhol’s Factory set. Ork’s impresario ear would pull damaged, literate new rock music from the pregnant Bowery grime of CBGB, resulting in debut 45s by Television and Richard Hell, as well as landmark recordings by the Feelies and Lester Bangs. It’s a tale of Charles Ball, who’d steer Ork Records through solo exploits by Big Star’s Alex Chilton and the dBs’ Chris Stamey. And it’s a tale told in scorching sides by Richard Lloyd, Marbles, Prix, Mick Farren, Cheetah Chrome, the Idols, the Erasers, the Revelons, Student Teachers, and more. Our deluxe hardback book features evocative, unseen imagery, a portal opened by on-the-scene photojournalists as crucial to documenting punk’s conception in the squalid Lower East Side as the walls of CBGB itself. Ork Records: New York, New York is a visionary glimpse of punk and new wave as invented, nurtured, feted, and forgotten by the street-level artisans who attended the genre’s arrival.
  • - Disc 1 -
  • 1 Television - Little Johnny Jewel
  • 2 Feelies - Fa Ce la
  • 3 Richard Hell - (I Belong to the) Blank Generation
  • 4 The Revelons - The Way (You Tough My Hand)
  • 5 Erasers - I Won't Give Up

  • - Disc 2 -
  • 1 Alex Chilton - All of the Time
  • 2 Chris Stamey & the DBS - (I Thought) You Wanted to Know
  • 3 Prix - Zero
  • 4 Marbles - Red Lights
  • 5 Alex Chilton T- ake Me Home & Make Me Like It
  • 6 Prix - Girl
  • 7 The Idols - Girl That I Love

  • - Disc 3 -
  • 1 Mick Farren & the New Wave - Lost Johnny
  • 2 Cheetah Chrome - Still Wanna Die
  • 3 The Idols - You
  • 4 The Student Teachers - Christmas Weather
  • 5 Erasers - It Was So Funny (The Song That They Sung)
  • 6 Richard Hell - (I Could Live with You) (In) Another World

  • - Disc 4 -
  • 1 Chris Stamey - The Summer Sun
  • 2 Alex Chilton - Free Again
  • 3 Richard Lloyd - (I Thought) You Wanted to Know
  • 4 The Student Teachers - Channel 13
  • 5 Chris Stamey - Where the Fun Is
  • 6 Prix - Everytime I Close My Eyes

  • - Disc 5 -
  • 1 Feelies - Forces at Work
  • 2 Marbles - Fire and Smoke
  • 3 The Revelons - 97 Tears
  • 4 Cheetah Chrome - Take Me Home
  • 5 Richard Hell - You Gotta Lose
  • 6 Chris Stamey & the DBS - If and When

  • - Disc 6 -
  • 1 Mick Farren & the New Wave - Play with Fire
  • 2 Richard Lloyd - Get Off My Cloud
  • 3 Alex Chilton - The Singer Not the Son
  • 4 Richard Lloyd - Connection
  • 5 Alex Chilton - Summertime Blues
  • 6 Mick Farren & the New Wave - To Know Him Is to Love Him
  • 7 Link Cromwell - Crazy Like a Fox
  • 8 Link Cromwell - Shock Me

  • - Disc 7 -
  • 1 Kenneth Higney - I Wanna Be the King
  • 2 Lester Bangs - Let It Blurt
  • 3 Alex Chilton - Bangkok
  • 4 Peter Holsapple - Big Black Truck
  • 5 Prix - She Might Look My Way
  • 6 Alex Chilton - Can't Seem to Make You Mine

  • - Disc 8 -
  • 1 Prix - Love You All Day Long
  • 2 Alex Chilton - Shakin' the World
  • 3 Prix - Love You Tonight
  • 4 Lester Bangs - Live
  • 5 Kenneth Higney - Funky Kinky