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Simple, overtly stupid, and utterly brilliant, the Ramones' self-titled debut stripped rock to its essentials and created a legacy of leather-jacketed clones. Their follow-up, Leave Home (also included, along with some fun demos, on this two-fer disc) was more of the glorious same. With Joey Ramone's adenoidal fake Brit accent and Johnny Ramone's chainsaw guitar, the Ramones thrived on a handful of lyrical ideas (brain damage, Three Stooges-like violence), and even fewer chords, constructing great pogo-friendly jokes ("beat on the brat with a baseball bat, oh yeah!"). Rock doesn't get any more primal, or fun. --Douglas
Simple, overtly stupid, and utterly brilliant, the Ramones' self-titled debut stripped rock to its essentials and created a legacy of leather-jacketed clones. Their follow-up, Leave Home (also included, along with some fun demos, on this two-fer disc) was more of the glorious same. With Joey Ramone's adenoidal fake Brit accent and Johnny Ramone's chainsaw guitar, the Ramones thrived on a handful of lyrical ideas (brain damage, Three Stooges-like violence), and even fewer chords, constructing great pogo-friendly jokes ("beat on the brat with a baseball bat, oh yeah!"). Rock doesn't get any more primal, or fun. --Douglas Wolk
TRACKLISTING:
01 - "Cretin Hop"
02 - "Rockaway Beach" (Dee Dee Ramone)
03 - "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (Joey Ramone)
04 - "Locket Love"
05 - "I Don't Care" (Joey Ramone)
06 - "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" (Joey Ramone)
07 - "We're a Happy Family"
08 - "Teenage Lobotomy"
09 - "Do You Wanna Dance?" (Bobby Freeman)
10 - "I Wanna Be Well"
11 - "I Can't Give You Anything"
12 - "Ramona"
13 - "Surfin' Bird" (Carl White / Alfred Frazier / John Harris / Turner Wilson)
14 - "Why Is It Always This Way?"
15 - "Slug"
16 - "I Want You Around (Original Version)"
17 - "I Just Want to Have Something to Do" (Joey Ramone)
18 - "I Wanted Everything" (Dee Dee Ramone)
19 - "Don't Come Close"
20 - "I Don't Want You"
21 - "Needles And Pins" (Sonny Bono / Jack Nitzsche)
22 - "I'm Against It"
23 - "I Wanna Be Sedated" (Joey Ramone)
24 - "Go Mental"
25 - "Questioningly" (Dee Dee Ramone)
26 - "She's the One"
27 - "Bad Brain"
28 - "It's a Long Way Back" (Dee Dee Ramone)
29 - "I Don't Want To Live This Life (Anymore)"
30 - "Yea, Yea"
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Manufacturer: Sire
Release date: 31 May 1990
EAN: 0075992661829 UPC: 075992661829
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