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Legendary rock club CBGB is sadly closing
for good on Sunday,
October 15. Share your tributes to this notorious punk institution here.
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CBGB is gone, but
luckily its music
will live forever on these concert albums:


Living Colour
Live From CBGB's
D.R.I.
Live At CBGB's 1984
Government Issue
Strange Wine: Live At CBGB, Aug. 30th 1997
The Celibate Rifles
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Live At CBGB's,
12-7-86
Kraut
Live At CBGBs
Kill Your Idols
Live At CBGBs
The Ruffians
Live @ CBGBs
Alice Donut
Dry Humping The Cash Cow (Live At CBGB)
Rana
CBGB's - NYC, NY - 11.29.02
Darlington
Live CBGB NYC 1997
Sponge
Molly (Live
At CBGB's)

Perhaps there is no nightclub with a richer, raunchier history than New York's own CBGB & OMFUG. Now that the club is shutting down and relocating to Las Vegas, it's time to look back at New York's finest:
the avant artists that put CBGB on the musical map.
THE RAMONES


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The Ramones
No band ever embodied the CBGB spirit more than these late, great, leather-jacketed hooligans. All hail the Ramones, the first "family" of punk.

Watch the Ramones' videos:

I Don't Want To Grow Up

Strength To Endure


Get classic Ramones albums:

Ramones Downloads




TALKING HEADS


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Talking Heads
David Byrne and his punky-funky new wavers are legends of thinking-man's pop. A band like this truly comes along once in a lifetime.

Watch David Byrne's video:

Miss America


Get Talking Heads albums:

Talking Heads Downloads


Get David Byrne albums:

David Byrne Downloads



NEW YORK DOLLS


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New York Dolls
The original glam squad, this gender-bending quintet not only spawned Johnny Thunders but also Buster Poindexter! This year the surviving Dolls released a rawkin' reunion album, keeping the CBGBs sound alive and kicking.

Get New York Dolls albums:

New York Dolls Downloads


SONIC YOUTH


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Sonic Youth
Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon kept CBGB rockin' through the post-punk '80s and alt-rock '90s.

Watch Sonic Youth's videos:

Kool Thing

Sugar Kane

Bull In The Heather

100%

Incinerate
BLONDIE


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Blondie
The most successful band of the CBGB seventies, Deborah Harry and Blondie are still golden after all these years.

Watch Blondie's videos:

Call Me (Live)

Rapture Riders

Good Boys


Get classic Blondie albums:

Blondie Downloads



THE CRAMPS


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The Cramps
Ever since Lux Interior and Poison Ivy debuted their mutant strain of diseased, sleazed punkabilly at CBGB in 1977, they've been the reigning king and queen of shock 'n' roll.

Watch the Cramps' videos:

Like A Bad Girl Should

Naked Girl Falling Down The Stairs


Get classic Cramps albums:

Cramps Downloads




TELEVISION


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Television
Little known in the mainstream but actually one of the most influential alternative-rock guitar acts of all time, post-punk pioneers Television have always been a band to watch.

Get classic Television albums:

Television Downloads



PATTI SMITH


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Patti Smith
This original champion of girl power and punk poet laureate will grace CBGB's stage on its final night, October 15, 2006. We couldn't imagine a more fitting finale.

Get classic Patti Smith albums:

Patti Smith Downloads




Plus read about CBGB's history:

Yahoo! News CBGB report