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)