Ramones - Road to Ruin (Dlx)
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Free Music Review: If you don't like the Ramones...
Hit: 5 Stars
If you don't like the Ramones, you don't like rock and roll. I don't know how else to say it. If you are tired, sad, or having trouble getting started in the morning, put this cd in and get going to a better, brighter, more blitzkreig-y kind of day. This was my introduction to the band and still my favorite, although the debut is fantastic as well. It's A Long Way Back, I Just Want To Have Something To Do, I Wanna Be Sedated, the list just goes on and on...all killer stuff. Even though some of the hardcore fans decried the 'ballads,' (let's face it, latter day Aerosmith drivel these ballads ain't - thank God), they are just being purists. Every single song on here is great and that's something very few bands can say about any one of their records.
The Ramones took the pop formula and crushed it with Johnny's down strokes and the sneering nasal charm of Joey's impassioned vocals. Honestly, if you don't like this band, I don't value your musical opinion.
Free Music Review: Peak Performance
Hit: 5 Stars
"Road To Ruin" is the band at their best and most versatile. You get the groups most commercial hit ("I Wanna Be Sedated"), old school riffs ("I Wanted Everything", "I'm Against It", "Go Mental"); ballads ("Questioningly", "Don't Come Close); and covers ("Needles and Pins" -- which continued a trend where the group would feature 1960's-era songs on their releases). The re-release is the first time in the US where "Road To Ruin" was released as an individual CD. As a sweetener, live tracks from the "Rock and Roll High School" soundtrack are among the bonus cuts included on the CD. Unfortunately, from this point forward Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Marky could not sustain the creative peak epitomized by "Road To Ruin". The foursome would still kick on stage (as anyone who saw them -- myself included -- could attest) for years to come but their studio recordings, aside from a couple of songs here and there, lacked the energy of the early (1976-78) years.Free Music Review: Man I am slow...
Hit: 5 Stars
I consider myself a very educated person when it comes to modern music. I have the essentials of everything from early boogie-woogie, early jazz & blues, 60's pop, disco, new wave, metal, indie rock, etc. But I am just now (at 24 years old) discovering The Ramones. Don't ask me why it took me so long...but it did and I am so happy. They are becoming one of my favorite groups to listen to. If you like pop music in any form, you will like the Ramones. I consider them a fast-playing pop band more than anything. As another reviewer said, they really were "the Beach Boys of punk". This is tied with "Leave Home" as my favorite of their LP's. Essentially every album of material they released is worthy of your listening time except for their very last album, Adios Amigos!, which is just garbage. But it's still better than most bands on their best day of course. If u don't have it already, just get this record already.Free Music Review: Best Ramones Album
Hit: 5 Stars
This probably gets my vote as the best Ramones album. Although some fans won't like some of the poppier acustic songs on here, this album really showcases the Ramones true talent.After 3 albums and the Ramones were not recognized by radio or the media, and they were angry. They were through playing by anyone's rules. Which is why Road to Ruin worked so well. They included super fast punk songs and then went into slow acustic ballads. And somehow, the Ramones made it work perfectly.
The best songs on here are of course I Wanna be Sedated, I just wanna have something to do, She's the one and Questioningly.
The bonus track, Come back she cried (I walked out), is probably the best song on here. Although its only a bonus demo track, it rocks as hard as any song on the album.
I highly recomend Road to Ruin.
GABBA GABBA HEY!
Free Music Review: A Perfect Album
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't know for sure if this is the best of the Ramones' albums, but that's just because this is the first one I've bought. What I do know, however, is that this album is almost completely flawless. Every song on this CD is good; there is no filler whatsoever. Even the bonus tracks are good. Okay, so the two demo tracks aren't AS good as the rest, but they're not bad at all. I know if you've heard of the Ramones that you've heard "I Wanna Be Sedated", but this album has a bunch of other great tracks as well, such as "I Just Want To Have Something To Do", "I Wanted Everything", "Don't Come Close", and "She's The One". All I know is this is one album that I will NEVER regret buying. I will listen to it over and over again. If you don't own it, you have no idea what you're missing!