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Artist: The RamonesBrand: RAMONES
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-06-19
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Blitzkrieg Bop
- Beat on the Brat
- Judy Is a Punk
- I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
- Chainsaw
- Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
- I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement
- Loudmouth
- Havana Affair
- Listen to My Heart
- 53rd & 3rd
- Let's Dance
- I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
- Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World
- I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend [*][Demo Version]
- Judy Is a Punk [*][Demo Version]
- I Don't Care [*][Demo Version]
- I Can't Be [*][Demo Version]
- Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue [*][Demo Version]
- I Don't Wanna Be Learned/I Don't Wanna Be Tamed [*][Demo Version]
- You Should Never Have Opened That Door [*][Demo Version]
- Blitzkrieg Bop [Single Version]
Free Music Notes for Ramones
Free Music Review: Sorry, Kids, This ISN"T true Punk Rock!
Hit: 1 Stars
I agree with another reviewer somewhere below! His/Her review is the best Ramones review I've ever been fortunate enough to read and I KNOW I'll Never top it, But It's so refreshing to hear of another true punk fan who sees the truth about this album in particular and the band in general, that I can't resist trying!
Let me try to elucidate!
I've listened to many of the Ramones albums over the years and despite the band's considerable energy on this album as well as their next 3, the Ramones were never really a Punk Rock band and their half-hearted attempt to market themslves as one fell flat, even though DeeDee DID write the Punk Rock anthem, "Chinese Rocks" with Johnny Thunders! Dee Dee, Marky, and original drummer Tommy (featured here) were the only intelligent members of the bunch.
Dee Dee once confessed that he'd rather be one of Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers than a Ramone. Perhaps he should have been!
The Ramones were always more Power Pop than Punk. Joey was a Beatles fan and Johnny was a right wing Bush-Lover and the band always lacked the Nasty attitude of true Punx! I mean, I never heard any stories about the Ramones scaring parents, priests ,or politicians! No perversity, no nihilism, no negativity! Those are all key elements of Punk and the Ramones always seemed to shy away from them! I mean, NO shock value whatsoever! They never threatened the status quo!Their hypocritical attempt to play "street rebels" was a transparent fake! They were always kissing the system's a**! Always doing as they were told! After watching their Documentary, "End Of the Century" I felt as if their only message was; "We will do ANYTHING for mainsteam acceptance!" Is THAT Punk?!?
By pretending to be"Punx", The Ramones lied to themselves, the public, and worst of all, their fans!
Personally, I always felt that the British bands of the 80s,( The Exploited, U.K.Subs, G.B.H., The Varukers, and Chaotic Dischord et. al) were far more loyal to the true ethos of Punk Rock, although I respectfully concede that some American bands,(e.g., the afore mentioned Johnny Thunders and The Heartreakers, The Dead Boys, The Germs, and GG Allin's projects) had enough Punky venom to totally DEMOLISH the Ramones!They all may have drawn upon the Ramones early energy but they did it FAR BETTER! I would Prefer any one of the above mentioned bands instead of Mamma's clean ,nice ,little Ramone boys!
The fiction that the Ramones were the "founders" of punk rock is only a cultural myth perpetuated by the mainstream media in order to gloss over the more threatening bands which followed.
Musically, the Ramones never had the slightest influence on real Punk Rock, Which was originally inspired by the Stooges, the New York Dolls, and the MC5 so Punk would still have developed just as well(albeit slower) without the Ramones.
For newcomers interested in 70s Punk, I recommend the Sex Pistols,the Damned's first album, or the Dead Boys, not these poseurs!
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Media Type: CD
Artist: RAMONES
Title: RAMONES
Street Release Date: 06/19/2001
Genre: PUNK
The Ramones' April 1976 debut, recorded for little more than $6,000, long ago passed into legend. Its exalted status as the inspiration for thousands of punk bands worldwide, though, hasn't overshadowed its monolithic roar, the knowing hilarity of its lyrics ("Judy Is a Punk" crams the SLA, the Ice Capades, and a salute to Herman's Hermits into a 90-second frame), and the impulse to blast it for everyone within earshot: Hey, listen to this. Embracing and rewriting rock & roll history at once, Ramones speeded up heavy music, adding a pop patina to songs inspired by horror movies and glue sniffing, and claiming a great Chris Montez tune ("Let's Dance") from the supposedly fallow period that had fallen between Elvis and the Beatles. Absurdist, yeah (how could anything with Joey's super-affected Liverpool-via-Queens accent be otherwise?) and also smart: "Havana Affair" is the greatest song about the cold war this side of Dylan. This remastered edition complements the original LP with a slew of demos, including a Spectoresque "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend," and the single version of "Blitzkrieg Bop," that, equally prophetically, puts Joey's vocal through a mixing trick that makes him sound like he's on the mic at a football game. --Rickey Wright
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