Weird Tales of the Ramones - Ramones

9.3	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Rhino / Wea
Release date : 9 August 2005
EAN : 0081227466220
UPC : 081227466220

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Description

Given their irreverent sensibilities, it's almost ironic to lionize the comic deconstruction of ossified rock history that was the Ramones' stock in trade, or note the decades of punk and alt.rock that remain their legacy. Instead, this collection smartly recasts the punk pioneers as literal pulp culture icons via its EC Comics-inspired packagi
Given their irreverent sensibilities, it's almost ironic to lionize the comic deconstruction of ossified rock history that was the Ramones' stock in trade, or note the decades of punk and alt.rock that remain their legacy. Instead, this collection smartly recasts the punk pioneers as literal pulp culture icons via its EC Comics-inspired packaging and the brilliantly executed comic book history of the band that accompanies it. Musically, the set's first three discs offer up 85 highlights of the band's recording career, personally compiled by founder/guitarist Johnny Ramone and seasoned with rarities like the demo for "Slug," the UK B-side "I Don't Want to Live This Life," and the single mixes of "Sheena.." and others. Its accompanying Lifestyles of the Ramones documentary DVD intersperses 14 videos with the often bittersweet recollections of the band and key family members, as well as such notables as Sire's Seymour Stein, Talking Head Tina Weymouth and producer Ed Stasium; another bonus six clips (including covers of the Who's "Substitute" and the '60s' "Spiderman" theme) round out that history. But it's the dizzying visual eclecticism of the included graphic history (executed in color b&w and 3-D by 25 top comic artists including Matt Groening, Zippy creator Bill Griffith, Mad magazine vet Sergio Argones, bootleg cover legend William Stout and Love and Rockets' Xaime Hernandez) that becomes the set's unusual focal point, a loving visual evocation of both their infectious music and shrewd, if willfully low-brow public persona. -- Jerry McCulley

Album Description
The supreme godfathers of punk-face it, they were on their third album before the Sex Pistols even broke-are true American originals, and their sensational end-of-the-century juggernaut is chronicled as never before in this career-spanning collection. Reducing and scrambling multiple strains of early rock 'n' roll and pop into a signature chainsaw of sound, the Ramones' loud, fast, and hard legacy rocketed out of NYC's CBGB in the early '70s and changed the face of modern music. Johnny Ramone, before his 2004 passing, oversaw the compilation of this first-ever Ramones blitzkrieg box for Rhino.

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Track listing

CD 1 :
1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. Beat On The Brat
3. Judy Is A Punk
4. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
5. Loudmouth
6. 53rd & 3rd
7. Havana Affair
8. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
9. Glad To See You Go
10. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
11. I Remember You
12. Carbona Not Glue
13. Oh Oh I Love Her So
14. Swallow My Pride
15. Commando
16. Pinhead
17. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
18. I Dont Care
19. Rockaway Beach
20. Cretin Hop
21. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
22. Teenage Lobotomy
23. Slug (demo) 24.Surfin Bird
24. We're A Happy Family
25. I Just Want To Have Something To Do
26. I Wanted Everything
27. Needles And Pins (early version)
28. I Wanna Be Sedated
29. Go Mental
30. Don't Come Close
31. She's The One
32. I'm Against It

CD 2 :
1. Rock'N'Roll High School (Ed Stasium version)
2. I Want You Around (Ed Stasium version)
3. Do You Remember Rock'N'Roll Radio?
4. I'm Affected
5. Danny Says
6. The KKK Took My Baby Away
7. You Sound Like You're Sick
8. She's A Sensation
9. All's Quiet On The Eastern Front
10. Outsider
11. Highest Trails Above
12. Psycho Therapy
13. Time Bomb
14. Mama's Boy
15. I'm Not Afraid Of Life
16. Too Tough To Die
17. Wart Hog
18. Howling At The Moon
19. Daytime Dilemma (Dangers Of Love)
20. Endless Vacation
21. My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)
22. Somebody Put Something In My Drink
23. Animal Boy
24. I Don't Want To Live This Life (Anymore)
25. Love Kills
26. Something To Believe In

CD 3 :
1. I Wanna Live
2. Bop 'Til You Drop
3. I Lost My Mind
4. Garden Of Serenity
5. I Believe In Miracles
6. Pet Sematary
7. Punishment Fits The Crime
8. Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
9. Main Man
10. Strength To Endure
11. Poison Heart
12. I Wont Let It Happen
13. Censorshit
14. Journey To The Center Of The Mind
15. 7 And 7 Is
16. When I Was Young
17. I Dont Wanna To Grow Up
18. Scattergun
19. Makin Monsters For My Friends
20. The Crusher
21. Spiderman
22. Life's A Gas
23. She Talks To Rainbows
24. Any Way You Want It
25. R.A.M.O.N.E.S.

CD 4 :
1. Do You Remember Rock'N'Roll Radio?
2. Rock'N'Roll High School
3. We Want The Airwaves
4. Psycho Therapy
5. Time Has Come Today
6. Howling At The Moon
7. Something To Believe In
8. I Wanna Live
9. I Wanna Be Sedated
10. Pet Sematary
11. Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
12. I Believe In Miracles
13. Strength To Endure
14. Poison Heart
15. Substitute
16. I Dont Wanna To Grow Up
17. Spiderman
18. Blitzkrieg Bop (live)