The Official Ramones Thread

[Syrinx]

I am definitely going to check out the play. I have read about those sessions with Phil Spector. The guy was crazy.

[The Cat 3]

I am definitely going to check out the play. I have read about those sessions with Phil Spector. The guy was crazy.

Yeah, there's the story of how Phil Spector made Johnny Ramone play the same opening chord from "Rock and Roll High School" over and over again for hours and hours until he got the take he wanted. Evidently, it nearly drove Johnny insane.

[Syrinx]

Not sure how many producers pulled a gun out on their artist either LOL!

[The Cat 3]

Not sure how many producers pulled a gun out on their artist either LOL!

True! :)

[invisible airwave]

I have to post this since I just saw Us today which I highly recommend. Before Jordan Peele mocked it:

 

 

 

[invisible airwave]

Anyone seen that new Punk 4 part documentary on Epix yet? Worth checking out. I’m watching the last part focusing on it’s comeback with 90s west coast punk, riot girl movement and Nirvana.

[The Cat 3]

Happy 43rd Anniversary to the debut!!

 

20 Facts To Celebrate The 43rd Anniversary Of The Ramones Debut Album...

 

43 years ago, the world was introduced to Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy Ramone when The Ramones released their self-titled debut album. We all know how the iconic record influenced music, but here are 20 things you might not know about it:

 

1. The album was created in seven days in February 1976 for just $6,400. The instruments were recorded in three days and the vocals in four.

 

2. To record the album, the band used microphone placement techniques similar to the ones orchestras used.

 

3. Though it isn’t mentioned in the liner notes, Joey Ramone’s brother, Mickey Leigh, added backing vocals to the album. He requested to not be listed because he didn’t want people to get confused over who was in the band.

 

4. The iconic album cover of the four band members against a brick wall was taken by Punk magazine’s Roberta Bayley. The record company paid $125 for the shot.

 

5. Before Bayley’s shot, the band had paid another photographer $2000 for pictures similar to the cover of The Beatles’ Meet the Beatles! They were very disappointed with the outcome of that shoot.

 

6. The brick wall on the album cover was part of a private community garden between Bowery Street and Second Street in New York City.

 

7. The album had two singles: “Blitzkrieg Bop” and “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.”

 

8. “Blitzkrieg Bop” was originally titled “Animal Hop” and was about kids going to a show and having a good time. Dee Dee Ramone changed the lyrics to be more Nazi-related.

 

9. Joey wrote “Beat on the Brat” about spoiled, bratty neighborhood kids in the area of Queens where he lived. He explained that the kids were so annoying they were the kind you’d want to beat on with a bat.

 

10. The track “Judy is a Punk” is the shortest song on the album clocking in at just one minute and 39 seconds.

 

11. Tommy Ramone wrote “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” as an homage to love songs from the 1960s.

 

12. “Chain Saw” was influenced by the 1974 horror filmThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre and even uses the sound of a running circular saw to open the track.

 

13. The track “I Don’t Wanna Go Down to the Basement” was also inspired by a horror movie. The minimalist tune is the same three lines of lyrics repeated, but it’s the longest song on the record at two minutes and 35 seconds.

 

14. Dee Dee has said that the song “Now I Want To Sniff Some Glue” is not autobiographical, noting that he stopping sniffing glue at age eight.

 

15. Dee Dee wrote “53rd and 3rd” about a male prostitute who kills a customer to show he isn’t a homosexual. Dee Dee has said the song is autobiographical and Johnny previously stated that the track is about Dee Dee turning tricks.

 

16. The band’s cover of Chris Montez’s “Let’s Dance” features producer Craig Leon playing the Wurlitzer pipe organ at Radio City Musical Hall.

 

17. “I Don’t Want to Walk Around with You” was one of the first songs the band wrote together and is the first track on their first demo tape. It was originally called “I Don’t Want to Get Involved with You.”

 

18. The original lyrics of “Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World,” a song that refers to a Hitler Youth member, were “I’m a Nazi, baby, I’m a Nazi, yes I am. I’m a Nazi Schatze, y’know I fight for the Fatherland.” Sire Records founder Seymour Stein felt they were offensive so the band change them to “I’m a shock trooper in a stupor, yes I am. I’m a Nazi Schatze, y’know I fight for the Fatherland.”

 

19. In 2001, Spin magazine put the record at the top of their list of The 50 Most Essential Punk Records.

 

20. Upon release, the album was not commercially successful, peaking at 111 on the Billboard 200 and selling just 6,000 copies in its first year out. However, in 2014, it was certified gold for sales over 500,000 copies.

Edited April 23, 2019 by The Cat 3

[Syrinx]

Great post The Cat 3!!

[Lorraine]

Better late than never.

 

I love listening to The Ramones. They're a high energy, foot-tappin' band. I don't have to think of or remember anything when I listen to them. It's just fun listening.

 

Thanks, Stephen, for introducing me to them!

[vaportrailer]

You have to admit, he does a good Joey Ramone.

 

"Put on these pants" lol

[The Cat 3]

[ReRushed]

I recently watched End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones:

 

http://vimeo.com/134542333

[The Cat 3]

[Babycat]

You have to admit, he does a good Joey Ramone.

 

"Put on these pants" lol

 

I can't see the video - is it Steve Terreberry?

[The Cat 3]

 

Happy 41st Birthday to one of my most favourite albums of all time!

 

The music contained within is a perfect mix of everything I love about music past, present & future.

 

Gabba Gabba Hey!!!

 

[The Cat 3]

[The Cat 3]

[The Cat 3]

Ramones played their last concert 25 years ago today, at The Palace in Los Angeles.

 

It doesn’t seem possible that it has been 25 years already.

 

 

Lemme was interviewed on the day of the show and had this to say...

 

“"If this is the last show the Ramones do, then it's an insult to the intelligence of the world and a shame for rock and roll," said Lemmy of Motörhead in an interview on the night of their final gig. "They are one of the best bands you've ever seen. Neglect them at your peril. They will teach you everything about rock and roll. Everything about rock and roll was in those songs, and if they're gone, then it's a damn shame."

 

 

Setlist:

 

1. "Durango 95"

2. "Teenage Lobotomy"

3. "Psycho Therapy"

4. "Blitzkrieg Bop"

5. "Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?"

6. "I Believe In Miracles"

7. "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment"

8. "Rock And Roll High School"

9. "I Wanna Be Sedated"

10. "Spider-Man"

11. "The KKK Took My Baby Away"

12. "I Just Want To Have Something To Do"

13. "Commando"

14. "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker"

15. "Rockaway Beach"

16. "Pet Sematary"

17. "The Crusher"

18. "Love Kills" (with Dee Dee Ramone)

19. "Do You Wanna Dance?"

20. "Somebody Put Something In My Drink"

21. "I Don't Want You"

22. "Wart Hog"

23. "Cretin Hop"

24. "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." (with Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead)

25. "Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World"

26. "Pinhead"

27. "53rd and 3rd" (with Tim Armstrong and Lars Fredrickson of Rancid)

28. "Listen To My Heart"

29. "We're A Happy Family"

30. "Chinese Rocks" (with Ben Shepard of Soundgarden)

31. "Beat On The Brat"

32. "Any Way You Want It" (with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam)

 

[The Cat 3]

[The Cat 3]

[Syrinx]

One of the greatest bands ever!

[The Cat 3]

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/albums/23689/homepage_large.4eae8d13.jpg

 

Happy 42nd. Anniversary

 

End of the Century!!!

 

An album that truly changed my life.

 

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