Ramones - End of the Century
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Free Music Review: Kudos to Rhino
Hit: 5 Stars
I am extremely excited to see Rhino records has rereleased this classic. The Ramones are one of the greatest rock bands in history. This album has them reaching out musically using Phil Spector to produce. He helps modify the rip saw guitar of Johnny Ramone to create a new sound for the Ramones. The songs maintain the edge but you will find a much more polished sound of the Ramones. You won't find "Beat on the Brat" but the replacement "Chinese Rock" and "This Ain't Havana" are equally as good. The Ramones needed to change their sound in order to keep from coming stagnant. I believe most of the songs work. The Rhino release contains the demos produced for the album which fans should find interesting. In the terms of the Ramones, this is their "unplugged" version of the songs. It helps give some background to Spector's final production (interpretation) of many of the songs found on EOTC. Interestingly enough, "Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio" put a perspective on the airwaves in '79---a strike against the arena rock. This song could have easily have been written about this new era of music. The Ramones will surely be missed. "Gabba, Gabba, Hey!!!"Free Music Review: A mad, mad, mad masterpiece!
Hit: 5 Stars
END OF THE CENTURY is a tuneful ball of energy that delivers all the thrills and spills you love in rock'n'roll. Arguments over Phil Spector's production or the Ramones pop tendencies seem silly when you let the album's sheer joy wash over you. For me, Spector's work is wonderful, matching the hot batch of tunes the band carried into the studio. I love the pounding, full-bodied rockers (DO YOU REMEMBER ROCK N ROLL RADIO, CAN'T MAKE IT ON TIME)and I love the big ballads (DANNY SAYS, BABY I LOVE YOU).For fans who don't share my enthusiasm for the Spector-Ramones marriage, the remastered version of CENTURY comes with several bonus demos of songs pre-Phil. They're still tuneful, but much more jagged. Worth the money to give'em a listen. Interestingly, the bonus tracks on CENTURY, PLEASANT DREAMS and SUB JUNGLE reveal a side of the Ramones that didn't often make it onto their records. Far from being one-idea, three-chord punk zealots, the Ramones as heard on their demos were a great, multi-faceted garage band, experimenting in all sorts of interesting directions.
Buy all the re-issues. And learn to love the masterpiece that is END OF THE CENTURY!
Free Music Review: A classic, no foolin'
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't know why people knock this one- it has "classic" written all over it. Songs like "Do you Remember Rock N Roll Radio" and "I Can't Make it On Time" display the connection between late-70s punk and 60s garage rock with an unstudied, easy charm that many more recent retro-punk groups could never match. "Danny Says" is a clever ballad about life on the road, and "Rock n Roll High School" is silly but just plain fun. Yes, "Baby I Love You" is a little cloying but does not detract too much from the rest of the disc. The raw bonus tracks are a nice addition as well, although I never felt like the Specter production gets in the way of the music too much except in some rare instances. All-in-all, a must-have for those who can accept punk as being more than just guitar-bass-drums, fast and perpetually angst-ridden.Free Music Review: Definently A Wall Of Sound
Hit: 5 Stars
End Of The Century gives fans songs that kick as much asphalt as their earlier work with a slight more reverb. The album was produced by legendary Phil Spector, who the Ramones found to be extremely eccentric. Spector went as far as pulling a gun on Dee Dee and making Johnny play the opening chord to "Rock N Roll High School" hundreds of times. Even if the working conditions were rough for the Ramones,they still turned in one of their greatest albums ever. "Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio" is one of the greatest anthems in rock, and not to mention "Chinese Rock", "I'm Affected", "Danny Says", ect. Even the cover of the Ronnets "Baby, I Love You" is not a throw away. End of The Century is not the end of the road for the Ramones or fans, it simply is just a sign that the Ramones were maturing.Free Music Review: NOTE TO ALL RAMONES FANS: BUY ALL OF THE NEW RE-ISSUES
Hit: 5 Stars
Normally I might be a little cynical about these re-issue CDs. I bought every Ramones record on vinyl when I was a kid. Then I later bought them on CD, and it wasn't all that long ago. Now they expect me to buy them AGAIN? Is this just a record lable/conglomerate trying to squeeze more money out of a band that never really achieved "financial success" for them? I don't know. What I do know is that these new re-releases are worth every damn penny I paid for them. Each booklet is packed to the gills with great photos and informative retrospectives on what was going on with the band around the time the album was recorded. Best of all, they include outtakes, demo versions, B sides etc. Casual fans should think twice before buying, but if you consider yourself a "Ramones fan" then you really need these re-issues.