The Ramones

[Jake]

Everything with Dee Dee Ramone - excellent, everything after not so much, kudos for calling it a day when they did. I think albums like “Too Tough to die” and “Halfway to Sanity” are very underrated

[Greatkudu]

The Ramones well what's not to like,they Inspired all the British Punk bands,I actually prefer some of their later material,but possibly one of the greatest bands ever especially live,they made the right decision to finish when they did,never fucked up their legacy as some bands who shall remain nameless have done,so sad that all the original members of the band have passed away.Major Kudu.

[Jake]

Sheena is a punk rocker/ We’re a Happy Family/ Teenage Lobotomy from Rocket to Russia is one of the best three run songs on an album ever

Apart from all the obvious early ones, some later or rather 80s tracks were also amongst the greats imho; The KKK took my baby away, a “love” song Joey wrote about Johnny, arguably a way more tense relationship than JJ and Hugh had.

Somebody put something in my drink, psycho therapy, I wanna live, Bonzo goes to Bitburg, We want the airwaves, dare I say it but the title track of Steven King’s “Pet Cemetery”, I think a lot of the 80s Ramones gets overlooked, they were a lot more versatile than usually given the credit for, hugely influential band on punk and beyond, and definitely not overrated imho

[Greatkudu]

Sheena is a punk rocker/ We’re a Happy Family/ Teenage Lobotomy from Rocket to Russia is one of the best three run songs on an album ever

Apart from all the obvious early ones, some later or rather 80s tracks were also amongst the greats imho; The KKK took my baby away, a “love” song Joey wrote about Johnny, arguably a way more tense relationship than JJ and Hugh had.

Somebody put something in my drink, psycho therapy, I wanna live, Bonzo goes to Bitburg, We want the airwaves, dare I say it but the title track of Steven King’s “Pet Cemetery”, I think a lot of the 80s Ramones gets overlooked, they were a lot more versatile than usually given the credit for, hugely influential band on punk and beyond, and definitely not overrated imho

Sir yes the 80s Ramones were very underrated,they did experiment,but went back to more traditional sound after the experimental phase,I think they are one of the most influential bands ever.Major Kudu.

[Jake]

Sheena is a punk rocker/ We’re a Happy Family/ Teenage Lobotomy from Rocket to Russia is one of the best three run songs on an album ever

Apart from all the obvious early ones, some later or rather 80s tracks were also amongst the greats imho; The KKK took my baby away, a “love” song Joey wrote about Johnny, arguably a way more tense relationship than JJ and Hugh had.

Somebody put something in my drink, psycho therapy, I wanna live, Bonzo goes to Bitburg, We want the airwaves, dare I say it but the title track of Steven King’s “Pet Cemetery”, I think a lot of the 80s Ramones gets overlooked, they were a lot more versatile than usually given the credit for, hugely influential band on punk and beyond, and definitely not overrated imho

Sir yes the 80s Ramones were very underrated,they did experiment,but went back to more traditional sound after the experimental phase,I think they are one of the most influential bands ever.Major Kudu.

Definitely, hugely influential. I don’t like U2 personally but they claim a huge Ramones influence, though I completely struggle to hear any of that.
There’s a good clip of the stranglers on Star Trax with Pat Sharp, he gets them to help find a winner in the competition for Ramones albums who had been on the previous shows, he asks Dave if he likes Ramones, Dave sort of nods and Pat says something along the lines of “they said very good things about you”. There’s a major Ramones and Stranglers connection as it put a few noses out of joint when The Stranglers were selected as the support band for their first U.K. show
The clip if you haven’t seen and even if you have, one of the best stranglers interviews ever, Jet is bloody hilarious with his black eyeliner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgVqOeNdicA

[Five Minutes]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y8v6

Ramones at the Roundhouse
Archive on 4

One of the defining moments in rock history saw Ramones made their triumphant UK debut in front of 2,000 fans at The Roundhouse in Camden on July 4, 1976, blitzkrieging the London crowd with NYC punk attitude. The following night they played Dingwall’s.

The arrival of the Ramones in the UK had been hotly anticipated due to the hype created by music journalists Nick Kent and Lisa Robinson and Malcolm McLaren, who had seen the band at CBGB’s in New York and made plans with record label supremo Seymour Stein to bring them to the UK to spread the Gospel of Punk.

That weekend, members of The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, The Slits, The Buzzcocks, The Pretenders, The Ruts, The Stranglers and The Adverts (and even Marc Bolan!) saw those gigs.

As Joe Strummer from The Clash said afterwards, “We all saw them play fast and hard, so we went away and immediately sped everything up. It was the sound of the next generation getting angry. It made us realise we weren’t alone. That kick started everything.”

Fifty years later, with exclusive access to key people who played a huge part in the early success of the Ramones - including Craig Leon who discovered the band, signed them to Sire Records and then produced the band’s debut album - Mariella Frostrup revisits one of the most important weekends in the history of Punk.

With previously unheard tracks from both those London gigs and their debut recording sessions the previous April, along with contributions from those inspired by those Ramones gigs including Chrissie Hynde, Glen Matlock, Hugh Cornwell, Paul Simonon, John Giddings, Gaye Black, Rob Lloyd and Rat Scabies - along with New York compatriots Debbie Harry, Chris Frantz, Roberta Bayley and Mickey Leigh.

Mariella Frostrup explains the importance and influence of those London concerts that cemented the Ramones' reputation as the godfathers of Punk and provided a huge impetus for the nascent UK punk scene.

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Just listened to this documentary.
Hugh's all over it as as Simonon talking about the fight.

I've created an mp3
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/e91561 ... _DL_WTP_01

[Jake]

In case any of you Ramoners missed on another thread

Hugh was part of a programme on Radio 4 last Saturday about when the The Ramones played at The Roundhouse. Includes a bit of Peasant and Paul Simeon's take on the incident...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002y8v6

It’s a very good listen