Artist	Song
Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated
from Weird Tales of the Ramones (Audio Version) (2005)
Richard Hell	Love Comes In Spurts
from Spurts - The Richard Hell Story (2005)
New York Dolls	Trash
from New York Dolls (1987)
Television	Elevation
from Marquee Moon (2005)
Suicide	Ghost Rider
from Suicide (2004)
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers	Born to Lose
from L.A.M.F. (The Lost '77 Mixes) [Special Edition] (2005)
Talking Heads	Artists Only
from More Songs About Buildings and Food (Remastered) (2006)
Blondie	X Offender
from Blondie (2001)
The Dictators	Weekend
from Go Girl Crazy (1991)
Patti Smith Group	Ask the Angels
from Radio Ethiopia (Remastered) (1983)
Mink Deville	Spanish Stroll
from The Best of Mink Deville (2003)
Pere Ubu	Final Solution
from Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection, Nonlp Singles & B Sides 1975-1980 (1998)
Dead Boys	Sonic Reducer
from Young, Loud and Snotty (2007)
Tuff Darts	(Your Love Is Like) Nuclear Waste
from Tuff Darts (2007)
Mars	3E
from NY No Wave (2003)
Mumps	Crocodile Tears
from Fatal Charm (2004)
The Speedies	Let Me Take Your Photo (1979 Original)
from You Need Pop (2005)
James White & The Blacks	Contort Yourself
from NY No Wave (2003)

Comment:

While DJ battles raged in Uptown parks and the glitterati boogied behind red velvet ropes in Midtown discos, bands — and patrons — of glitzless Downtown punk clubs, like CBGB and Max's Kansas City, hit the [i]reset[/i] button on art, fashion, and music. With a cheesy Farfisa straight out of "Palisades Park" and a guitar twangin' like Duane Eddy never retired, Blondie plunders the '60s for the sidewalk-surfin' sonic innocence of "X-Offender." In "Spanish Stroll," Mink DeVille connects the dots between Ben E. King's "Spanish Harlem" and Lou Reed's "Walk On the Wild Side," as vocalist Willy DeVille sing-speaks the straight-out-of-Coolsville lyric, while his all-girl chorus [i]oooh[/i]s and coos to his every line. And in two blessed minutes, the Ramones remind us why they're the undisputed godfathers of punk, courtesy of the amphetamine-addled bubblegum explosion "I Wanna Be Sedated." There's more where these came from, too, as bands from the New York Dolls to the Talking Heads broke the new wave wide open.

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