Ramones - End of the Century
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Artist: RamonesEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-08-20
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?
- I'm Affected
- Danny Says
- Chinese Rock
- The Return of Jackie and Judy
- Let's Go
- Baby I Love You
- I Can't Make It on Time
- This Ain't Havana
- Rock & Roll High School
- All the Way
- High Risk Insurance
- I Want You Around (Soundtrack Version)
- Danny Says (Demo)
- I'm Affected (Demo)
- Please Don't Leave (Demo)
- All the Way (Demo)
- Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio? (Demo)
Free Music Notes for End of the Century
Free Music Review: bad production can't ruin good songs
Hit: 4 Stars
Controversial.. blah blah..
You already know the story.
Phil Spector's production on this album is awful. The sound is muddy, the group's instruments are buried under layer after layer of god knows what, and if there's one band that has no need for friggin echo, it's the Ramones. All that said, there are some great songs here. It's the same 50s and 60s influenced Ramones of earlier albums. It's just unfortunately muted a bit by the production.
My favorite song on the album is Danny Says. It's a really nice Velvet Underground homage (who themselves often paid tribute to the same type of music that the Ramones obviously loved). Danny Says is also the only song on the album which doesn't seem to suffer from Spector's overproduction. In fact, Spector may well have been the best producer the song could have possibly had.
If you're a fan of the Ramones, you'll probably like the album. Whether you love it or not will probably depend on WHY you like the band.
End of the Century Poster
End of the Century is the musical documentation of a form looking for rebirth. Having burned itself out in four short years by 1979 (that's a short century!), punk rock cast about for a spark to reignite the flames. The Clash found it in political rage and musical wanderings; the Ramones found it by infusing their already well-honed pop sensibilities with a huge dose of pathos. Who'd have thought these boys--the same ones who cried "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" and who wanted to "Beat on the Brat (with a Baseball Bat)"--had it in them?The concept looks great on paper. Combine the famed "Wall of Sound" producer Phil Spector with the three-chord, three-minute, speed-laced ditties of the Ramones--and it sounds even better on vinyl. The Ramones never needed any help sounding massive, but Spector's production brings out subtleties hidden within, making Johnny's lone Mosrite guitar blaze like a bomb squadron, coaxing some evocative and emotional singing from Joey, even (gasp!) shading some of the songs with strings--punk-rock sacrilege in those days. The Ramones live up to the task by writing some of their best--and most overlooked--songs to date. "Rock & Roll High School" and "Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?" are exhilarating (and somewhat nostalgic) bids for commercial recognition. Even the covers here--"Baby, I Love You" and "Chinese Rocks"--transcend the original source and become solid members of the Ramones' community of songs. Though they've been accused of rewriting the same album over and over, End of the Century proves the Ramones were much smarter, more adventurous, and more innovative than we'd ever expected. --Tod Nelson
Expanded & remastered edition of their 1980 release features the original Phil Spector-produced 12-song album plus 6 bonus tracks and a hidden track (a Joey Ramone radio spot). Bonus tracks, 'I Want You Around' & the previously unreleased demos 'Danny Says', 'I'm Affected', 'Please Don't Leave', 'All The Way' & 'Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?'. Slipcase. 2002.
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