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RS 500: Part 1 (100 music items)

"'"Our early songs came out of our real feelings of alienation, isolation, frustration — the feelings everybody feels between seventeen and seventy-five," said singer Joey Ramone. Clocking in at just under twenty-nine minutes, Ramones is an intense blast of guitar power, rhythmic simplicity and ferocious brevity, a complete rejection of the spangled artifice and hollow, artsy pretensions of 1970s rock. The songs were fast and anti-social, just like the band: "Beat on the Brat," "Blitzkrieg Bop,"

TIME's 100 Greatest Albums (100 music items)

"“Legend has it that Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy spent a total of $6,400 recording this debut, which leads to an obvious question: Where'd all the money go? These 14 tracks sound like they were mixed on a runway at LaGuardia, but the playing is impressively clean given its speed (no song lasts longer than 2:40) and Joey's singing proves you don't need range to sound exuberant. Music historians long ago decided that Ramones is punk rock's Rosetta Stone, but "Judy is a Punk," "53rd & 3rd" and"

songs with names in the title (76 music items)

" Judy is a Punk"