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music What’s Your Favorite Ramones Album and Top Five Songs? 🎧🎶

Christopher Hitchens

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My favorite album would have to be their debut:

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My top five songs right now, and I say right now because that usually changes for me over time. But anyway here they are:

1️⃣ Judy Is A Punk:


2️⃣ Sheena Is A Punk Rocker:


3️⃣ Rockaway Beach:


4️⃣ Chain Saw:


5️⃣ California Sun:


I’m a new fan and so I want to hear from others about this!
 
Eric Blair said:
My favorite album would have to be their debut:

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My top five songs right now, and I say right now because that usually changes for me over time. But anyway here they are:

1️⃣ Judy Is A Punk:


2️⃣ Sheena Is A Punk Rocker:


3️⃣ Rockaway Beach:


4️⃣ Chain Saw:


5️⃣ California Sun:


I’m a new fan and so I want to hear from others about this!
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Ouch. You are REALLY GAY.
 
brandon666420 said:
No one cares the Ramones fucking suck
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Yea I used to think the same thing until I actually listened, then read stuff and watched documentaries and I realized what they were trying to do which was make rock and roll music rock and roll once again, I was wrong.

randallon said:
Who the fuck do YOU listen to? New Kids On The Block?
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Do you like them?

DrGoodEvil said:
Ouch. You are REALLY GAY.
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Is it not cool for punk fans to like the Ramones? Too popular. I don’t give a fuck.
 
hedgerow said:


^ great song and video
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It is! I like Blitzkrieg Bop too but those are their two most famous ones by far and I already knew those before I really gave them a listen and became a fan so I dont listen to those ones very much because I’ve heard them before ya know

Bruno Puntz Jones said:
"Chinese Rock", just bc Dee Dee wrote it, and it's about heroin. But I haven't really listened to them since I was 10 or so. Too poppy for me, but they do have their place in punk rock history (RIP punk rock).
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yea that one Johnny didn’t want to do at first because it’s about drugs but later they did it. I don’t mind poppy, I like sixties pop music. Like the more hardcore stuff is too much for me usually. I like a Rancid song and others but.

Thing is i wasn’t and am not a big punk fan. I never was, I liked mostly 60s music and some 70s but I just dig what they were trying to do. Bring rock and rock back to being rock and roll. Also if this was a punk band from the 90s say I wouldn’t like it near as much but the fact that this was new and original at the time elevates it to me.

I’m the same with hip hop and rap, I hate the newish crap but the original stuff I like.
 
Eric Blair said:
Yea I used to think the same thing until I actually listened, then read stuff and watched documentaries and I realized what they were trying to do which was make rock and roll music rock and roll once again, I was wrong.
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Yeah, the punk rock ethos that you describe is what matters most. Unfortunately, that became lost with time and distance from the source. We can see this in how punk rock became more and more bastardized as the years wore on; and now people think pop bands like Green Day and tons of other shite bands are punk rock. That's why I consider punk to be long dead, but there are likely still a few bands around who epitomize and live the original punk ideals.

Btw, just remembered one of the poppier Ramones songs I like, and it's probably among their poppiest:

(As a kid, I appreciated the goofy humor they imbued their songs and music videos with.)
 
Blood_Sport said:
The Ramones made pop ditties, I strongly disagree that they were the start of punk rock in the 70s
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Yes but there lyrics weren’t just pop ditty shit though, a lot of it is but some isn’t.

If you strongly disagree then state your case. Where would you put the start of it?

Bruno Puntz Jones said:
Yeah, the punk rock ethos that you describe is what matters most. Unfortunately, that became lost with time and distance from the source. We can see this in how punk rock became more and more bastardized as the years wore on; and now people think pop bands like Green Day and tons of other shite bands are punk rock. That's why I consider punk to be long dead, but there are likely still a few bands around who epitomize and live the original punk ideals.

Btw, just remembered one of the poppier Ramones songs I like, and it's probably among their poppiest:

(As a kid, I appreciated the goofy humor they imbued their songs and music videos with.)
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Yea I agree Green Day is trash. There’s a great YouTube clip of Johnny Rotten talking about them it’s short but he is so right on!

Here:
 
The Sex Pistols were the fist band who were truely punk rock, obviously they had artists who were off centre of the norm who came before them and influenced them in various ways, but none of them had something that stopped people in their tracks like the Pistols did. I like some Ramones songs, but they are quite literally fast guitar based pop songs that usually have no social comment or relate to anything that was happening around them, and this was an important part of punk rock, it was to wake people up and show them what a mess the world was in and they should 'get off their arses' and make a change somehow.

I also really get sick of the bullshit about the Pistols being a manufactured band, Seve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock and a guy called Wally Nighingale had already formed a band, Malcolm McLaren had an interest in them and got them a rehersal space, Johnny Rotten did his audition in the SEX shop after Wally had left the band and Steve Jones said that he no longer wanted to be the lead vocalist.. Without John, punk rock as we know it would never have happened, he is the one man that shaped it, and the one man that gave it the attitude and provocation, like him or not, he is the kingpin of punk rock.
 
Blood_Sport said:
The Sex Pistols were the fist band who were truely punk rock, obviously they had artists who were off centre of the norm who came before them and influenced them in various ways, but none of them had something that stopped people in their tracks like the Pistols did. I like some Ramones songs, but they are quite literally fast guitar based pop songs that usually have no social comment or relate to anything that was happening around them, and this was an important part of punk rock, it was to wake people up and show them what a mess the world was in and they should 'get off their arses' and make a change somehow.

I also really get sick of the bullshit about the Pistols being a manufactured band, Seve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock and a guy called Wally Nighingale had already formed a band, Malcolm McLaren had an interest in them and got them a rehersal space, Johnny Rotten did his audition in the SEX shop after Wally had left the band and Steve Jones said that he no longer wanted to be the lead vocalist.. Without John, punk rock as we know it would never have happened, he is the one man that shaped it, and the one man that gave it the attitude and provocation, like him or not, he is the kingpin of punk rock.
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Yea I have some disagreements but first I’ll start with the agreements. I love Johnny Rotten, his (early) music or just him talking. The Pistols album, btw, that’s another band and person I came across only a few years ago so they are newish for me but yea. John Lydon is extremely important not just for punk but music. If you listen to his early PIL, post-Pistols stuff, you can hear where a lot of that 80s sound comes from.

Yea I think the manufactured band is bullshit too. I think people who say that think that any band that didn’t grow up and start as kids together, say like the Beatles, are manufactured. Which is absurd because the Ramones would be manufactured in that definition. Tommy Ramone was getting a band together and picked the others out because they were interesting and unique.

Now where I disagree is that I think the Ramones stopped people in their tracks too. Also they did write about what was around them.

This song is about Dee Dee whoring himself out for drug money:


They other have stuff like that. Also they weren’t political lyrically like the Sex Pistols were for sure but I don’t accept that punk music has to be saying something political or making social commentary or calling people to action for this cause or that. It can be but it doesn’t have to be.

It’s like the rock and rock of old, it could be about the above but it can also be about youth and fun and the pursuit of love or sexual attraction too.
Also what I like about the Ramones is they are smarter then they appear, they knew what they were doing, and I didn’t always realize that.

Also the Ramones have the punk sound, yes it’s poppy but it’s a punk sound I’m sorry. I think the Ramones were the more important band because they were the first and they inspired a lot of the punk band that came out of England, including the Sex Pistols. I mean this was in 1974:

I mean they were first.

in short, I think both are great and both are punk
 
Eric Blair said:
My favorite album would have to be their debut:

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My top five songs right now, and I say right now because that usually changes for me over time. But anyway here they are:

1️⃣ Judy Is A Punk:


2️⃣ Sheena Is A Punk Rocker:


3️⃣ Rockaway Beach:


4️⃣ Chain Saw:


5️⃣ California Sun:


I’m a new fan and so I want to hear from others about this!
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Grue up on punk love it! Never liked the Ramones...
 
Private Joker said:
Not really my taste I guess. Trying to think why and to me it sounds like kid music. I like more anger in my tunes. If you call it punk.😵
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Have you listened to their albums, some of it seems pretty angry to me? also I think what you call kids music is just pop music. The Ramones were very into early 60s surf rock and bubblegum pop, the stuff they grew up with, and so that’s the influence.
 
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