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.
Track List
- Television Little Johnny Jewel
- Feelies Fa Ce La
- Richard Hell (I Belong To The) Blank Generation
- The Revelons The Way (You Tough My Hand)
- Erasers I Won't Give Up
- Alex Chilton All Of The Time
- Chris Stamey & The dBs (I Thought) You Wanted To Know
- Prix Zero
- Marbles Red Lights
- Alex Chilton Take Me Home & Make Me Like It
- Prix Girl
- The Idols Girl That I Love
- Mick Farren & The New Wave Lost Johnny
- Cheetah Chrome Still Wanna Die
- The Idols You
- The Student Teachers Christmas Weather
- Erasers It Was So Funny (The Song That They Sung)
- Richard Hell (I Could Live With You) (In) Another World
- Chris Stamey The Summer Sun
- Alex Chilton Free Again
- Richard Lloyd (I Thought) You Wanted To Know
- The Student Teachers Channel 13
- Chris Stamey Where The Fun Is
- Prix Everytime I Close My Eyes
- Feelies Forces At Work
- Marbles Fire And Smoke
- The Revelons 97 Tears
- Cheetah Chrome Take Me Home
- Richard Hell You Gotta Lose
- Chris Stamey & The dBs If And When
- Mick Farren & The New Wave Play With Fire
- Richard Lloyd Get Off My Cloud
- Alex Chilton The Singer Not The Song
- Richard Lloyd Connection
- Alex Chilton Summertime Blues
- Mick Farren & The New Wave To Know Him Is To Love Him
- Link Cromwell Crazy Like A Fox
- Link Cromwell Shock Me
- Kenneth Higney I Wanna Be The King
- Lester Bangs Let It Blurt
- Alex Chilton Bangkok
- Peter Holsapple Big Black Truck
- Prix She Might Look My Way
- Alex Chilton Can't Seem To Make You Mine
- Prix Love You All Day Long
- Alex Chilton Shakin' The World
- Prix Love You Tonight
- Lester Bangs Live
- Kenneth Higney Funky Kinky