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- Blitzkrieg Bop (1976) The debut single, the one that started it all, and still the single greatest punk rock song of all time. Blitzkrieg Bop stripped rock music down to its bare minimum, reinventing a form that had grown stale and bloated after 20 years.
- I Wanna Be Sedated (1978) One of the Ramones’ greatest achievement was their ability to write so vividly about the parts of life that weren’t all that great or fun or interesting.
- Teenage Lobotomy (1977) One of punk’s greatest achievements was its gleeful embrace of weirdos and outsiders, and Ramones were the reigning kings of the misfits.
- Rockaway Beach (1977) Their only “real” hit and a slam-dunk of surfy proto-punk that celebrates everything great about New York and rock n’ roll and summer and being alive all at once.
Listen to the greatest hits of the Ramones in this full album playlist on YouTube.
- ‘Do You Remember Rock N’ Roll Radio?’
- ‘Teenage Lobotomy’
- ‘Beat on The Brat’
- ‘Pet Sematary’
- ‘Rockaway Beach’
- ‘Judy Is A Punk’
- ‘The KKK Took My Baby Away’
- ‘Blitzkreig Bop’
- ‘Sheena Is A Punk Rocker’
- ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’
Though the Ramones may well be the bastion of punk, the leather jackets, ripped jeans and snarling attitude was about as close to an archetypal punk as you could get in the mid-seventies. That said, it didn’t mean they still weren’t driven by money. Despite what you may think, the Ramones wanted to be rich. It was this drive that sent them to conne...
Right in the heart of the punk battle, the Ramones released their seminal album Rocket to Russiaand it gathered up a huge plethora of fans for its advantageous title alone. What’s more, the record’s fiery lyrics and ferocious speed made it an instant hit. Starting off the LP’s second side was the powerful ‘Teenage Lobotomy’. It captured the B-movie...
If you ever needed proof that the Ramones were living the punk life before anyone else, then ‘Beat on the Brat’ is the only song you need. As one might expect, Joey Ramone wrote the track with a simple premise “I was living in Forest Hills, walking around the neighbourhood,” he said. “Annoyed by all these rich ladies with their bratty kids.” Joey c...
The eighties were a crazy decade for the Ramones, ending with Dee Dee leaving the group. However, before he did, the acclaimed novelist and supreme Ramones fan, Stephen King, asked if the group would write a theme song for the film adaptation of his bestselling horror novel Pet Sematary. What transpired is one of the band’s few commercial hits and ...
In the slew of three-chord, three-minute gut punches that the Ramones call songs, there aren’t many bonafide ‘hits’. Except, of course, this classic vision, ‘Rockaway Beach’. The surf-punk pioneer is full of summer in New York joy, featuring cheap hot dogs, cheaper beer and sunburnt bodies crackling in the sun. It’s a song that typifies the brighte...
The Ramones were always looking to include people in their gang of punks. Usually, they did this through song. On ‘Judy Is A [Punk’ the band made it clear that their sound and lifestyle wasn’t determined by gender — they were open to the entire underbelly of society. A purely fictional punch of punk, the song runs for only 90 seconds and can be rev...
Possibly one of Joey’s most personal songs, by 1981 the Ramones were running on thin ice. Their familial tendencies had long since dissolved and this song typifies the strain. Allegedly written about Linda Ramone who dated Joey before marrying fellow bandmate, Johnny Ramone, there are even suggestions that the ‘KKK’ reference was to Johnny’s staunc...
The first song of the Ramones self-titled debut album was, undoubtedly, the first powerful notes of a band determined to make an impression. The song rattles out at just over two minutes and was a firm fan favourite from the very beginning, proving itself as one of the ultimate punk anthems. Played at pretty much every Ramones gig over their 22-yea...
If you weren’t “in” the punk scene in the mid-seventies then chances are, ‘Sheena Is A Punk Rocker’ may have been your very first introduction to not only the Ramones but punk itself. It scraped the top 100 in the pop charts and found itself some airplay on rock radio. In 1977, it was positively revolutionary. It not only took the melodies of the 1...
If ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ is the mainstream hit that even your grandma would throw her fists up into the air for, then ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ was the reason the band were still the kings of the underground. Though the track was a rather autobiographical affair (Joey Ramone suffered severe burns to his face in 1977 and was recovering when he penned the song...
Aug 16, 2024 · 25. “Mama’s Boy” (1984) Joey Ramone doing his best Ian Curtis impression shouldn’t work, but it does. “Mama’s Boy,” the tone-setting intro track on Too Tough to Die, is ferocious and ...
- Brian Kachejian
- I Just Want To Have Something To Do. There is a great scene in the movie Rock and Roll High School when all the Ramones fans are lined up to buy tickets for a Ramones concert and many of them are fighting with each other in line.
- I Wanna Be Sedated. Well if we had to choose the most popular Ramones song of all time, it would easily turn out to be the Ramones classic “I Wanna Be Sedated.”
- Rock And Roll High School. In 1979, I went to see a midnight screening of the Ramones’ film, Rock and Roll High School. I was a high school senior at the time.
- Blitzkrieg Bop. For those of us growing up in the 1970s, the song “Blitzkrieg Bop,” was the first Ramones track that we ever heard from the band. The song served as the opening song on their debut album, The Ramones.
Mar 3, 2014 · Something to Believe In. 10. Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) 11. What a Wonderful World (Joey Ramone solo) 12. Ramona. 13. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School.
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