End of the Century was supposed to achieve that. They wanted to be rich, or at least make enough money to afford a big enough bus to hold all of their egos comfortably. Do You Remember Rock N’ Roll Radio? (1980)ĭespite their punk heritage, the Ramones didn’t like being poor. Might be the snottiest thing they’ve ever done, which is saying something.Ħ. But Warthog was a happy accident, a fun little bone-cruncher of a tune that sounds like a particularly scathing satire of ’77 era punk. They didn’t even understand the concept, really. Too Tough To Die was the result and it’s not very good because the Ramones weren’t hardcore. Not everybody thought so at the time – it was nominated for a Razzie for worst soundtrack song in ’89 – but it fits in perfectly with the band’s best 70’s stuff.įor some dumb reason, in 1984 the Ramones thought it would be a good idea to make a hardcore album.
The Ramones loved King’s books and were all dyed-in-the-wool horror/kitsch/trash movie and culture fans, so it was the perfect marriage of sound and vision. What, we were supposed to let fucking Dokken keep writing slasher movie themes? The film was based on a Stephen King novel, and he was an unabashed fan of the brudders. Pet Semetary is a goofy clunker of a horror flick, but the Ramones surprise inclusion on the soundtrack not only served as a much-needed reminder that the band was still alive and well, but re-routed horror fans back to the punk/garage genre that embraced all things creepy throughout the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. A great homage to their 60’s roots and one of the many highlights of 1978’s Road to Ruin. Everybody’s got a fave version – Cher’s is amazing, incidentally – but the Ramones may have captured the awkward teenage longing better than just about anybody. It has been covered many times over the years by everyone from Tom Petty to Stevie Nicks. Not a Ramones original, Needles and Pins is a chewy wad of bubblegum originally (co-)written by Sonny Bono in 1963 and first recorded by Jackie DeShannon a year later. Call me a numbskull in the comments all you want and then go buy some Ramones records and make your own dumb list.
So here you go, 10 of the Ramones best, according to one dude who doesn’t know anymore than you but loves the Ramones now and forever. They are misfit anthems for gawky dipshits as well as street-savvy chain-smoking hip kids, the cool and the dumb and square and the hopeless all get to dive in and grab big greasy fistfuls, that’s why they made them, so you could fit in somewhere, even if somewhere is nowhere. The objective fact of the matter is that the Ramones were one of the greatest rock n’ roll bands of all time, ever, even if their biggest hit only scraped the top 100 ( Rockaway Beach reached number 66 in January 1978), and even if they were mostly ignored or overlooked by rock fans until they all died of cancer or drugs and suddenly turned into legends and icons, at least according to t-shirt sales.Īgain, that is not the important part, it makes no difference if you bought your first Ramones album in 1977 or two weeks ago, if you’re some late-to-the-party doofus it’s cool, the Ramones wrote these songs for you anyway.
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