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Free Music Review: The 6 Thousand Dollar Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Gentlemen (chuckle), we can rebuild the seventies. We can make the world's first Junk Rock Record. The RAMONES will be that record! It will bet better than it was before: simpler, LOUDER, FASTER. We will use Marshall amps and turn it up to 11. We will abandon guitar solos and over the top jamming, as well as replacing every drum solo and fill with screwed up 4/4 signatures and cymbal crashes. We will boil syrupy 70's schmaltz ballads in the battery acid of our amplifiers and make the record sound like the whole decade is being ground up in a garbage disposal. We will pay tounge-in-your-girlfriend's- cheek homage to horror movies (Chainsaw), child abuse (Beat on the Brat), drug abuse (I Wanna Sniff Some Glue), political abuse (Havana Affair), dope fiend street hustlers (53rd and 3rd), romance (I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend), and the inevitable bust ups (Loudmouth). We will also bookend this plate of punk with the ultimate gameplan (Today Your Love, Tommorow The World), and the epitome of glorious calls to trashing good fun in Blitzkrieg Bop. We will crush everything the 70's has smeared on us or we will scare the record buyer right out of the friggin store..oops, we scared the friggin record buyers right out of the store and developed a rabid cult following instead. Oh well, who needs those pinheads anyway! Count it Dee Dee! "1234." Belt it out in your best Mersey-meets-Queens accent Joey, "Hey ho! Let's go!"Free Music Review: I could not give this anything less than 5 stars
Hit: 5 Stars
Who could hate the Ramones? You could laugh at them, sure (which I do a lot) and love them all at the same time (which I do) but you could never hate them (well, you could hate Johnny, apparently - not meaning to speak ill of the recently dead, but that's what it sounds like) when they played. I think this is one of the greatest pop albums ever made. Yes, Pop. This is not really that punk, at least compared to the beautifully nihilistic music that came after. This was always more of a laugh, and even a well-meaning laugh in some places (although "Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World" is pretty eerie). Well, what can we say about this album? No one ever sounded like this in 1976. It's incredible. The bonus tracks also kick tons of ass (who knew "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" could sound even sweeter?). The Ramones are fantastic. As anyone with a brain will tell you. Trying to describe the songs would be an exercise in monotony, but particular favorites are "Blitzkrieg Bop" (duh), "Beat On The Brat" (duh), "Judy Is A Punk" (duh), "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (duh), "Chain Saw" (possibly my favorite for no reason at all), "Loudmouth", and oh hell, everything's great. I can't say anything bad about this album...it's short, too short, but that's all, really. I love it without reservation. Praise Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Tommy.Free Music Review: Who else would rhyme "massacre" with "me"?
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't care what you say, this is where everything changed. The Ramones were tired of what rock and roll had become, and with this record (cd now) they decided to turn things around. And did they ever! They brought rock and roll back, mixed in their own touch and influenced hundreds of bands in so many of the types of music we have today. Yeah, it has blitzkrieg bop, that song you hear at every sporting event you go to, but there's so much more here! Beat On The Brat, Judy Is A Punk, Chain Saw...and that's just the first few songs. There's a few slower songs like I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend 53rd and 3rd, both are great. The best part of the cd is the I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement/Loudmouth/Havana Affair/Listen To My Heart combo. Simply remarkable. Throw in a cover (Let's Dance) and a great ending (I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You/Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World) and you have quite a breath of fresh air. Even today, this sounds awesome. Also, when I heard this cd, I was finally able to answer the question why today's punk sucks so bad...no one today has the emotion that Joey Ramone had when he sang. Whatever the mood he wanted to set, it came through loud and clear. As for everyone today, they "Don't Come Close".Free Music Review: The Album That Saved The World
Hit: 5 Stars
The importance of this album in the history of Rock music and American popular culture can not be overstated. Released during the disco diaspora in 1976, this aural assault went largely unnoticed at the time, but its influence has grown in the quarter century (!) since then. Much like the equally-important, underrated, and influential Chuck Berry, the Ramones are often derided for their deceptively simple 3-chord song structure and seemingly dumb lyrics. The smart listener will realize Joey's phrasing as intentionally tongue-in-cheek; Tommy and Dee Dee's efficient (and danceable) pulse, and; Johnny's life-affirming power chords. Yes, the Stooges, MC5, Velvet Underground set the backdrop in terms of the style and attitude, but the Ramones are the ones who defined punk rock and therefore saved American popular music from itself. The Sex Pistols may have had a lot to say, but the Ramones were and are the embodiment of everything that Rock music ever was and may still be again. This remastered version is light years ahead sonically than the standard CD, and the fat booklet in each of the first 4 remastered Ramones albums is a treat for fans. The next logical step is a box set.Free Music Review: This is where it ALL started!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Ramones classic self-titled debut changed the music industry. Joe Strummer (RIP) listed "Ramones" as the most essential punk rock album ever recorded. The bottom line is this; "punk rock" as a genre did not EXIST until the Ramones were formed. Sure, there were proto-punk group like the Stooges, the Dictators, and the New York Dolls, but the punk ethic was defined by this album, period.
The sound is classic, with the bass in one speaker and the guitar in the other speaker. The vocals show a Joey who hadn't quite yet figured out what he was all about, but he still kicked major [...]. The words are classic. From the Tommy-penned "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", to the classic admition of male prostitution of the Dee Dee penned "53rd and 3rd", to the Johnny penned "I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement", this cd is where it all began, fellas.
The bonus tracks are not new revalations, but they work. The cd must be in your collection if you wanna be a "punk rocker", because Blink 182, Green Day, and Yellowcard are NOT "punk" bands; they are POP bands!
Have fun, and try not to hurt yourselves!