ramones - Road to Ruin

ramones - Road to Ruin.this is The Ramones fourth album is another their classic album. "Road To Ruin" found the Ramones breaking the limits set by the first three albums, with a variety of instruments, solos and songs that broke the three minute mark. There was even an incredible ballad, the heartbreaking "Questioningly." The Ramones not only wanted the world, they wanted to be taken seriously.

While their drummer Tommy was replaced by Marky on this album, but Tommy was still around as the group's producer. The group's sound "matured" somewhat on this album, but still stayed true to their punk roots. Just about all the songs here are classics, with "I Wanna Be Sedated" being a classic among classics. The CD has five bonus tracks. Their isn't a single bad song on "Road To Ruin." It may have taken a few years to raise the amazing "I Wanna Be Sedated" to classic radio status, but better late than never. "She's The One," "Go Mental" and Joey's unbeatable cover of "Needles and Pins" should have all been hits, but radio in 1978 was still all about "D'ya Think I'm Sexy."

Track Listings
1. I Just Want To Have Something To Do
2. I Wanted Everything
3. Don't Come Close
4. I Don't Want You
5. Needles & Pins
6. I'm Against It
7. I Wanna Be Sedated
8. Go Mental
9. Questioningly
10. She's The One
11. Bad Brain
12. It's A Long Way Back
13. I Want You Around (Ed Stasium version)
14. Rock 'N' Roll High School (Ed Stasium version)
15. Blitzkrieg Bop/Teenage Lobotomy/California Sun/Pinhead/She's The One (live)
16. Come Back, She Cried A.K.A. I Walk Out (demo)
17. Yea, Yea (demo)

ramones - Leave Home

ramones - Leave Home is The Ramones' second album was cut from the same leather as their debut with a crucial difference. They were getting better fast. That meant the songs were still as sharp and as bitingly funny, but the playing and production were clearer this time around. There was the classic bombast blast of short songs, and "Leave Home" provides a chock-load of classics. You get "Gimmee Gimmee Shock Treatment," "Suzy Is A Headbanger," "Commando" and the bangin' rave-up cover of "California Sun." The band shows its affinity with classic pop by twisting girl-group pop iIt features one Ramones classic after another. "Pinhead", "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment", "I Remember You" and on and on. The CD includes "Carbona Not Glue", which was removed from the original album after the first pressing, at the request of the manufacturers of Carbona. It was replaced by the single version of "Sheena is a Punk Rock" in the US, and "Babysitter" in the UK. "Babysitter" is included here, but "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" is not. That is unfortunate, because the version of this album that I grew up with featured "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" on it. The CD also features a complete 30 minute concert from August 1976 in Los Angeles.nto "You're Gonna Kill That Girl" and mutating surf music into "Oh Oh I Love Her So."

Track Listings
1. Glad To See You Go
2. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
3. I Remember You
4. Oh Oh I Love Her So
5. Carbona Not Glue
6. Suzy Is A Headbanger
7. Pinhead
8. Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy
9. Swallow My Pride
10. What's Your Game
11. California Sun
12. Commando
13. You're Gonna Kill That Girl
14. You Should Never Have Opened That Door
15. Babysitter
16. Loudmouth (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA 8/12/76)
17. Beat On The Brat (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA 8/12/76)
18. Blitzkrieg Bop (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA 8/12/76)
19. I Remember You (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA 8/12/76)
20. Glad To See You Go (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA 8/12/76)

ramones - Rocket to Russia

Next to the ramones debut album, this is of The Ramones' best work ever. With the losses of Joey, Dee Dee, and Johnny, it's sad to think The Ramones are a band of the past, but when you listen to works like "Rocket To Russia you will realize.ROCKET TO RUSSIA was released in mid-1977, at the height of the fury that was known as Punk Rock. Sire Records was gearing up for some serious sales and betting a lot on the Ramones.

The ramones - Rocket To Russia is literally that powerful an album, and remains a watershed moment in punk rock. You get the seminal "Cretin Hop," "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" "Teenage Lobotomy" and what may be one of the most important Top 100 singles of the decade, "Rockaway Beach." You discover that all sorts of classics could be hammered into rock.This song is the prime example of punk rock & classic rock meeting, morphing, and totally emerging into one another.

Track Listings
1. Cretin Hop
2. Rockaway Beach
3. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
4. Locket Love
5. I Don't Care
6. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
7. We're A Happy Family
8. Teenage Lobotomy
9. Do You Wanna Dance?
10. I Wanna Be Well
11. I Can't Give You Anything
12. Ramona
13. Surfin' Bird
14. Why Is It Always This Way?
15. Needles & Pins (Early Version)
16. Slug (Demo)
17. It's A Long Way Back To Germany (U.K. B-Side)
18. I Don't Care (Single Version)
19. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (Single Version)

So If you have never listened to The Ramones before, this is a good place to start. If you are one of those folks who are just now discovering The Ramones, get happy, because you've got a lot of great music to listen to up the road.

ramones - the ramones

This album was when it hit the streets in the second half of the '70s. Just play a Yes album, a Styx album Lame artists such as Peter Frampton, Boston, and Emerson, Lake, & Palmer. Now you get the idea of how much we needed to be saved. Than, God, the Devil, and man combined forces to create the Ramones' debut album.Emerson, Lake & Palmer album beside it to try to get an understanding.

The Ramones made music that was fun, and you'd catch it in your head faster than a winter cold. Their music is the ultimate audio-adrenaline rush, and no matter your age or statusThe Ramones were probably the first somewhat popular band to use its limitations in a positive way, and many other soon followed: The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Blondie, Talking Heads, U2, etc. Had it not been for The Ramones, these bands might not have formed, let alone have been signed to a major record label.The Ramones desire to play fun, energetic rock & roll with lyrics that carry no overbearing messages.

Track Listings
1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. Beat On The Brat
3. Judy Is A Punk
4. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
5. Chain Saw
6. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
7. I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement
8. Loudmouth
9. Havana Affair
10. Listen To My Heart
11. 53rd & 3rd
12. Let's Dance
13. I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
14. Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
15. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (Demo)
16. Judy Is A Punk (Demo)
17. I Don't Care (Demo)
18. I Can't Be (Demo)
19. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue (Demo)
20. I Don't Wanna Be Learned/I Don't Wanna Be Tamed (Demo)

Iron maiden - Killers

Killers has two instrumentals which include "Genghis Khan". This song really flies! Drummer Clive Burr beats the heck out of the cymbals on this one."Killers" is a metal classic. It's not quite as good as the debut, and definitely not as good as "Brave New World", but it's certainly a worthy addition to your collection
Killers - I have not to say unless..this song perfect and best...
Murders In The Rue Morgue - The thing about Maiden was that they were literate. A song written about the Edgar Allan Poe short story, was this thinking man's metal? Sure. The intro is slow and haunting, and then it cranks.
Ides Of March - Cool little intro instrumental into the next song. Maiden sounds so much more polished here on Killers than they did on the raw effort of their debut. The production by Martin Birch has stepped up a notch or three. Great little show off piece.Wrathchild - A great metal song. The bass line is so cool. Harris totally rules. Heavy. DiAnno's vocals are blunt and brutal. Sheer metal goodness. Great song! Coming to get you.....

I prefer "Transylvania", from the debut, but both are excellent. Many songs on here are now considered classics, like "Wrathchild", "Purgatory", and the title track. But it doesn't stop there. The lesser-known songs are just as good, such as "Drifter", "Twilight Zone", and the ballad "Prodigal Son". It's just perfect. Adrian Smith makes his debut here, and thus the legend begins.Another Life - The begining is cool with Clive on drums and the wailing riff. A straightforward rocker. DiAnno's vocals sound so much more refined on this outing. Exciting.Genghis Kahn - is more epic with lots of tasty guitar work and Great little instrumental that becomes just a tad bit mechanical towards the middle. These guy meshed so well as musicians, however, and it showed here. Harris shines.

Innocent Exile - The Steve Harris intro is awesome. Prodigal Son - Smooth, flowing song. After the all-out assault of Killers, this is a much needed break from the slamming metal. If Killers is said to have a soft spot, then Prodigal Son would be it. The song is good, just not as exciting as the rest of the album. The vocals are reminiscent of Strange World, where they phase out DiAnno's voice. Still a solid song. Just not Maiden's best.Purgatory - This song sounds like the polished version of something left over from the first album. It shreds and it's metal, but it sounds like it may belong with Sanctuary or Prowler.Twilight Zone - This songs is very often over-looked. DiAnno's voice gets very strange here to the point where he sounds almost exactly like Klaus Meine from Scorpions. Weird. I always liked this song. It's straight Maiden. Like Purgatory, it may have been another leftover from the first album. Metal!Drifter - Loose and moody. This is Maiden just being Maiden. Sounds like an impromptu song the way it goes this way and that. Shredding section in the middle. The main riff is the Maiden signature sound. The lyrics aren't very memorable, however, so it becomes another weak spot on a very nearly perfect album.

Iron maiden - Piece of Mind

The album Piece of mind from Iron maiden I think this is The Greatest Metal Album Of All Time.They have the most popular Maiden lineup of Bruce Dickinson (vocals), Dave Murray (guitar), Adrian Smith (guitar), Steve Harris (bass), and Nicko McBrain (drums). Nicko is the newest addition here, coming from the french band Trust. This album also stands out because of the production. Songs like 'Flight of Icarus' and 'To Tame a Land' have an epic nature about them that is brought out by the professionalism of the recording.The more popular songs here are 'Where Eagles Dare' (which is based off a movie), 'Flight of Icarus,' 'Revelations,' and 'The Trooper,' the last of which is the most famous, and take it from a guitarist - It's fun to play

Every composition on Piece Of Mind broke ground, and the album as a whole could not have been written by any other band. Piece of Mind is one of those records that always seemed to be not unlike an anthology of self-contained, yet vaguely related stories. When reading the acknowledgments, it comes as no surprise that the band thanks Alistair MacLean and Frank Herbert for the inspiration that their novels brought to their work.Iron Maiden Piece of Mind is an amazing album with not a single weak track. Of course, some songs are still better than others, and those are veritably deserving metal classics.

Iron maiden - Somewhere in Time

"Somewhere in Time" marked a slight change in style and feel in Iron Maiden.By the time "Somewhere in Time" came out in 1986,Bruce Dickinson wanted to take a different direction and do an acoustic album. What really got me interested was that Adrian Smith was going to take a lead role in some of the songwriting. With having a hand writing songs such as "The Prisoner," "The Flight of Icarus," "22 Arcacia Avenue," and "2 Minutes to Midnight,"

"Somewhere in Time" features 8 great track, each better than the one before it. Listen to "Alexander the Great" and ask yourself if any other band at the height of their popularity would have been able to put that song on a cd. The guitar riff on "Wasted Years" will be running through your head all day, and you will be humming the chorus of "Heaven Can Wait" for a long time. This is a great album, from a band that always brought a little more to the table than just catchy rock anthems."Alexander the Great" as an attempt to recapture the lyrical magic of Powerslave's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Musically, it's interesting, but lyrically, it fell flat. Coleridge's epic poem translated much better to music than Plutrarch's history.Although a slightly different feel to Iron Maiden's usual, "Somewhere in Time" is something every fan should have in their collection.

Iron maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son.Now we arrive in 1988 when Maiden decided to take the progressiveness even further to an epic level. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son takes its style from Hemispheres era Rush and fuses it with Iron Maiden's early sound creating a masterful concept album. It follows the story of a cursed child who is born with special powers and it tempted by the side of both good and evil.The music is brilliant, with acoustical guitar, keyboards and other additions to transform Maiden's sound. In retrospect, Seventh Son was the last great Maiden album. Instead of being a stepping stone to more Maiden innovations, it proved to be Iron Maiden peak.

There are certainly no shortages of guitar parts here. Dave and Adrian are playing dual guitar solos as great as ever, but unfortunately Adrian departs after this album, which started a chain of progressively worse Maiden albums until the dawn of the new millennium arrived.
Moonchild- Starts off with an acoustic passage giving this album's theme and then it builds into a fast rocker. Great usage of keyboards in the background. Bruce's vocals are very aggressive here
Infinite Dreams- This one may take time for fans to get used to as it alternates between a softer and harder section. Great song though.
Can I Play With Madness- A short commercial rocker similar to the previous album's Wasted Years. I understand that this track was played to death back in the day (though I'm much more inclined to believe that # Of The Beast and 2 Minutes To Midnight got overplayed if anything), but it's still an excellent song nonetheless
The Evil That Men Do- Another phenomenal rocker. I didn't like it at first because the chorus got rather tedious to listen to, but it does grow on you. A noteworthy gem
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son- IRON MAIDEN TACKLES THE 10-MINUTE PROGRESSIVE EPIC CHALLENGE, and They've done it before with Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner and Alexander The Great, but this is the first time in which they create the story themselves
The Prophecy- Some say that this track is the worst on the album, but I have to disagree. While it's certainly not one of the best Maiden songs, it does stand out quite a bit, as the band has never done anything that sounds quite like it up to this album, and for that the song deserves credit
The Clairvoyant- A MASTERPIECE! Of the more commercial progressive styled rockers on the album, this track shines far above the rest
Only The Good Die Young- This song would tie with The Prophecy as far as good songs on the album go, but unfortunately unlike The Prophecy, this one fails to really stand out at all. Still decent though. It ends with the same acoustic passage as the intro of Moonchild.
Seventh Son was the last great Maiden album. Instead of being a stepping stone to more Maiden innovations, it proved to be Maiden's peak. Things seemed to go down hill after this record, with Adrian Smith and Dickinson eventually leaving to work on their own projects.

Iron maiden - Powerslave

"Powerslave" is Iron Maiden's best album, or if you like "Beast" or "Piece of Mind" or any one of their other albums better, you have to respect Iron Maiden for what they accomplished with "Powerslave".

Iron Maiden's "Powerslave" was to metal.The killer chorus of "2 Minutes to Midnight" has another fast, catchy riff and two melodic solos. This song is really a highlight, though, because the chorus is a shout-along, the great guitar track of "Flash of the Blade, the cool "Egyptian" sound to the title cut, of the epic "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". There was something here for every metal fan. Iron Maiden has made a career out of defying the norm, and in a time when most bands were riding the metal-pop wave, writing songs about Girls..Girls..Girls, or Talking Dirty to Me with "Aces High". "Powerslave" is about Egyptian mythology and has mostly galloping riffs. It slows down for the middle, when there are two wailing solos, but it turns back to the galloping beat near the end.

Iron maiden - The Number of the Beast

Iron maiden's first classic.Iron Maiden's third album and their first to feature their longest-running singer, the great Bruce Dickinson. Circa 1982: freshly out of his former band Samson, Dickinson would replace Maiden's original singer Paul Di'Anno,Bruce Dickinson is one of metal's best singers.Steve Harris, songwriter/backing vocalist also is one of the most talented bassists.Dave Murray and Adrian Smith they are efinitely one of the most perfect guitar duos out there.And Clive Burr is a highly underrated drummer.

"Invaders" is a fast-paced, attention-getting opener. It tells the tale of a Viking invasion upon a Nordic village, I think. The drums thunder like a thousand running feet, the bass and guitars like cries of fear and fury."Children of the Damned," I'm not so sure what this one's about. It starts off kind of slow and has great guitar work from Smith and Murray, and slowly gets more up-beat, but then in the bridge of the song."The Prisoner" has a little sample from the sci-fi sitcom of the same name, then breaks into a mid-tempo beat that is simply infectious for foot-tapping. Then it speeds up so suddenly and without warning, with a sweeping, powerful instrumental thrust. Dickinson snarls and barks out the tale of a man in prison who has one thing in mind: getting out. Very catchy chorus, too."22 Acacia Avenue," another faced-paced track, is a fable of a prostitution house and how truly insane and upside-down one could be. While the song is excellent and I could be stuck on a deserted island with it, it is probably one of my lesser-favorites.

"The Number of the Beast"..., the source for many a parent's apprehensions that their kids are listening to bad music. A streamlined and fast-paced tale of a man's encounter with an unholy cult performing a Satanic ritual, yes - but by no means promoting Satanism; rather, this takes a fearful outlook upon such practices, as the narrator within the song is trying to get away...but ultimately, unsuccessfully. After an eerie intro by the late Vincent Price, the atmospheric guitar riffs kick in, with Dickinson's worried-sounding vocals coming in with a now-classic opening line: "I left alone...my mind was blank..." The solos in the bridge of the song dazzle, and the little gap between them is amazing in itself as the pace slows down, then picks up again for a huge "shebang!" Parents may still want their kids to avoid a song that has "666" in the chorus, but regardless, this is one of Maiden's best.

"Run to the Hills" this time tells the story of the white settlers that came to this land we now call America, and as they mercilessly hunted down and slew the natives and deals with the troubles the American Indians had. The beginning drum beats lead into a great trio of guitars and bass, and then Dickinson comes in with his furies snarls. Then, like many Maiden songs, the song suddenly picks up pace and fires off into a blistering, galloping juggernaut.It is probably the catchiest and most famous song on here"Gangland" is yet another uptempo piece, this time focusing on living in the more ghetto side of town, and the fears of going outside, for the gangs might get you. Rather violent and up-in-your-face lyrics, too. Like "22 Acacia Avenue," one of my lesser favorites, but still a masterpiece.this song very catchy too.
"Total Eclipse" is a prophetic tale of nature taking revenge upon mankind for our decades of causing such damage to her. It starts off with mid-tempo, fairly heavy riffs that are like thunder in the sky, and then builds up the pace a little. Dickinson's vocals are at their most furious here, I think.

And then there's "Hallowed Be Thy Name," the ultimate masterpiece on this album.which has an main riff that has been ripped off by such bands as Papa Roach. A nice solo is included here, as well.This is the tale of a man's final hours as he is on death row and waiting for his time. The massive bridge is breathtaking with its powerful time changes and solos...and with the subject matter, this song is an excellent choice for an album closer.

The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964-1971

The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks best collection album.Hot Rocks is one of the rare exceptions to the rule. Originally released in 1972 .You will find all the Rolling Stones retrospective songs is accounted for--Get Off Of My Cloud, Paint It Black, Let's Spend The Night Together, Gimme Shelter, Jumping' Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man, Sympathy For The Devil, a live cut of Midnight Rambler, and of course, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Although this will not satisfy die hard fans and I wish a few other songs were included (Stray Cat Blues, the Ya-Ya version of Carol, Sister Morphine, She's A Rainbow, 2000 Man) everything here is grade-A gritty blues rock.Hot Rocks does a good job of capturing the rolling stones.