And give it a 15 out of 15! Nowadays, when you want to express anger, you have to cope with the following poetic genius: 'But I see an old lady with a shopping bag/And I wonder is life a drag', sung at face value. As a result, Ramones works on at least several different levels - it's an album that the lowest, scummiest kind of fan can happily headbang to, and it's also an album that would make a wonderful subject for a PhD thesis on aesthetics. I'm thinking of an eleven right now, actually, but I'm sort of lazy about changing that rating. Not to mention that 'I don't wanna walk around with you/I don't wanna walk around with you/I don't wanna walk around with you/So why d'you wanna walk around with me? ' So extra points go for braveness and the will to experiment. I Don't Care (Serbian translation). Dee Dee contributes another sprawling ballad, 'She Belongs To Me', replete with the sentimental refrain 'don't tell me how to love my baby, she belongs to me' - we sure went a long way from 'I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend'. Nobody but the most hardcore audience paid any serious attention to the Ramones in friggin' nineteen ninety-five I'm sorry to say, but this ain't what I'd call a decent parting shot.
Too much of those minimalistic sentimental stanzas without any real humour. Triangles were fallin' at the window as the doctor cursed. Now three guesses where Wire took their inspiration from). Go Home Ann (Dee Dee Ramone/Mitch Leigh). "RAMONES is not as basic as it may seem. There's, like, two or three lines of text repeated over and over again! Recorded, mixed and mastered by MACHINERGY.
Michael Jones from Berlin, MdI might as well tell you all the definition of blitzkreig, since you all seem to misunderstand. Luckily they make up for it with the power pop ballad 'My-My Kind Of A Girl', later ripped off by Fountains of Wayne for the slower and more elaborated 'She's Got A Problem' (and definitely ripped off by Joey from some Phil Spector tune that I can't identify because I've never had any luck distinguishing one Phil Spector tune from another. Even better is the doo-wop-meets-bubblegum cheerful insanity of 'Howling At The Moon (Sha-La-La)'... surprisingly, or unsurprisingly, it is the least Ramones sounding tune on the album, with big electronic drums, keyboards (some of which almost sound like a harpsichord! Few can combine post-modernism with a sincere emotional attitude and a ROCKOUT vibe, but these guys have done so. The Ramones at their angriest and most sarcastic so far, and not on the gang anthem 'Pinhead' with the greatest lyrics ever: 'I don't wanna be a pinhead no more/I just met a nurse that I could go for' (lyrics end.
I'm not hailing this because it's the album that revolutionized rock music or the album that swept away all the pompous pretentious prog rock dinosaurs or because it's fast and furious or because it's funny or... well, for all of that too, sure, but in my mind these are not major points. Spencer from Mcbride, Canadanot all the ramones were I really do hope you know that they are not all related and none of thier names are actually ramone (jeffry hymen "joey" and john cummings "johnny") are 2 examples. He had lymphatic cancer. 'I don't like politics, I don't like communists, I don't like games and fun, I don't like anyone... ' What the song does is ridicule the mix of punk and politics, and in a very straightforward and sincere form, too. Oh, okay, so one of the highlights is 'Surfin' Bird'. Well, the basic answer is obvious: it's a way of getting back to one's roots, the same thing that Dylan was doing at the exact same time digging out old folk standards. I can never make my mind up about 'Go Lil' Camaro Go', either. You had me believing.
Needless to say, all of the songs are catchy and fun; that's the point. The only complaint I could voice here is that Joey and Co. start going a bit overboard with references to mental problems. Music & Lyrics by RAMONES. Fans of the Ramones should not be tempted to take the song as the Ramones' acceptance of the nihilistic values brought along by the new wave of British punks like the Sex Pistols. All you can do is, well, get tough; chances are, they'll hear you kicking ass and they'll at least stop crying about selling out. 200 Cigarettes soundtrack – The Ramones - I Don't Care lyrics. Who needs 'Blitzkrieg Bop' and 'Cretin Hop' on the same record if the second one is a weaker re-write of the former? It functions the same way as for me, listening to a 15-star record does: get back to a high standard and get your hopes and energies revitalized in the process. Labotomy Surviving The Ramones will dispell and displace all these stupid rumors and stories i see all the illiteratate and lazy i will make it an american living in philippines we call lazy here or illiterate gago.
If you're gonna make a ballad, gentlemen, don't try to make it sound real sentimental - what happened to the genius of 'I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend', for God's sake? Not to mention they were intentionally 'slipping it' a bit on the album, vainly hoping it would eventually sell. There is something in my heart. Speaking for myself, I managed to do this, and got myself a great band. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind. Sure the songs on it rarely go over two minutes in stark Ramones' style, but a double live album still... that's something up to prog bands to do. It's all recorded at one New York show with C. (I presume - I don't have no liner notes and could care less about locating them), and to a large extent, it's dedicated to promoting Adios Amigos!, which means you'll be getting 'Spiderman' and 'Cretin Family' on here, hardly "greatest hits" if you ask me. I wanna be wann-I-wann-I-wann-I-wann-I-wann-I-wann-I-wann-I-wanna Yeaaaaah... I got you to understand.
It's less consistent (I'll never forgive them for 'Time Has Come Today', never! The one song on here that, in my eyes, seriously improves upon the original is the Seeds' 'Can't Seem To Make You Mine', for one simple reason: I'll take Joey's vocals, even strained and forced as they can be, over Sky Saxon's dying-dog intonations any time of day, and at long last, here is a version where the singing does not render obsolete the melodic content of the song. So 'I Wanna Live' takes itself way too seriously to be an undisputed Ramones classic - Dee Dee and Daniel Rey's lyrics are a notch above "horrendous" as far as confessional, psychoanalitic lyrics go (well, at least I'm kinda amused at lines like 'I'm a gypsy prince/Covered with diamonds and jewels/But then my lover exposes me/I know I'm just a damn fool'), but that doesn't make them genius. Then again, who really cares. Track listing: 1) Cretin Hop; 2) Rockaway Beach; 3) Here Today Gone Tomorrow; 4) Locket Love; 5) I Don't Care; 6) Sheena Is A Punk Rocker; 7) We're A Happy Family; 8) Teenage Lobotomy; 9) Do You Wanna Dance; 10) I Wanna Be Well; 11) I Can't Give You Anything; 12) Ramona; 13) Surfin' Bird; 14) Why Is It Always This Way. It's just that the sound they got on here sucks so much, I don't ever feel like listening to any of these songs. Dan from Marquette, Mi UsaI am 60 years old.
No, no, of course I'm joking and they never did any of these things. 'Poison Heart' has an anthemic chorus that's almost overblown, but you can't really overblow a song when you give it to somebody like Joey, and it does drive the point home - although look at the lyrics, woncha? Girl, you made a promise, said you'd never want me to go. What does that mean? Sure the Trashmen conceived this goofy fusion of 'Bird Is The Word' and 'Papa Oom Mow Mow', but it's the Ramones version that will be remembered - Johnny beating out the incessant power chord like a jackhammer and Joey going nuts over the endless 'bird is the word' refrain... It also is about how quickly they travel from one consert to another. The only way they could 'grow' was to extend the "nothing is sacred" deconstructivist approach to things outside basic bubblegum pop and fast garage rock - and to try their hands at power pop, "midtempo rock", balladry, etc., etc., in short, try the same minimalistic way with other genres and styles.
Why They're Insincere: You're calling that bear a punk? Today, Dee Dee is just angry. Don' gimme none o' that jive. Dee Dee's "Vomit Was Here" style vocals never change, though, so count this as another failure. They're piling in the back seat They're generating steam heat Pulsating to the back beat The blitzkrieg bop. Oh you can't say anything nice, nice, nice...
Now I'm a-beginnin' to wonder if he really played on 'Palisades Park' in the first place. But the focal point is still 'Surfin' Bird'. Comments: I kind of wonder if this is the same baseball bat that made it into "Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Phillip from Louisville, KyMarky Ramone is still alive and in pretty good health. A percussion jam in the middle of the proceedings? Track listing: 1) I Wanna Live; 2) Bop 'Til You Drop; 3) Garden Of Serenity; 4) Weasel Face; 5) Go Lil' Camaro Go; 6) I Know Better Now; 7) Death Of Me; 8) I Lost My Mind; 9) A Real Cool Time; 10) I'm Not Jesus; 11) Bye Bye Baby; 12) Worm Man.
But it used clearly for shock value and that's it. Greatest Hits Live is sort of the ultimate cash-in record, done by oldies acts with no hope of pushing any of their new material on any of the world's markets, and even then, out of everybody I know, I'd be hard-pressed to find an artist who actually has an official release named "Greatest Hits Live". 'Garden Of Serenity', for instance. It's such a gamble when you get a face. Album "Rocket To Russia" (1977). Type the characters from the picture above: Input is case-insensitive. "), ending everything with the quintessential Ramones song ('Beat On The Brat') and the quintessential "dumb-rock" cover ('Any Way You Want It'), and then it's over. Of course, the Ramones deserved airplay, and when they weren't given any, they deserved this song - which combines the sneering menacing punch of 'I Just Wanna Have Something To Do' with the cool recycled melody of 'I'm Affected' in one supreme melting pot, yet doesn't give any true indication of how the rest of the songs on here will sound. You looked the other way, the day that I was broke. Everywhere I hear the sound of marching charging feet, boy.
Well, in the microcosmic sense of the word, that song: CALIFORNIA SUN.