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post #16 of 23
9/25/09 at 5:13pm
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Originally Posted by GreatDane View Post
I love how every other song starts with the words:

one,two, three, four----->ROCK!

I still love those guys.
I saw them play live three times in the 80s, and in concert... EVERY song started with "one two three four!"

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post #17 of 23
9/25/09 at 6:03pm
The first album RAMONES is a true classic in every way right up there with Dark Side of The Moon or Blonde On Blonde or even Sgt. Peppers.

Stretching this a bit, you should also check out the movie "rock and roll high school" which has the band in it, as well as a bunch of their songs.

It has P.J. Soles in it, and they blow up the gym at the end of it, what else do you need?

and the movie "heathers" owes a ton to that movie
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post #18 of 23
10/3/09 at 5:10pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Jones View Post
As a teenager growing up in the UK in the late '70s, I always thought of the Ramones as "punk for people who didn't really get it"
That smells like retroactive elitism to me. In the 70s, people who didn't get it hadn't heard of the Ramones.

I'd like to know who you considered punk for people who did "really get it."
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post #19 of 23
10/3/09 at 10:22pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Jones View Post
As a teenager growing up in the UK in the late '70s, I always thought of the Ramones as "punk for people who didn't really get it"
funny, the Ramones were punk before the Sex Pistols even existed. thanks for playing, though.
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post #20 of 23
10/4/09 at 12:08am
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Originally Posted by VicAjax View Post
funny, the Ramones were punk before the Sex Pistols even existed. thanks for playing, though.
The Ramones documentary, End of the Century, is wonderful, shambolic, touching, bathetic, miserable, and triumphant. In other words, ONE--TWO--THREE--FOUR. . . .

One of the saddest, cruelest moments was watching a variety of brief interviews with the great, epically-successful, wealthy, and mostly knighted surviving members of British Bands (The Clash, Sex Pistols) who lounge in their tastefully decorated Sloanie flats and titter as they fondly recall being under-aged but sneeking into window of the men's jacks so they could get into a Ramones show. Ah, me, they guffaw, that was a long time ago, before we got successful and were feted as geniuses by the NME and Frenchmen, and were subsequently admitted to the House of Lords.

And then the cameras segue to Johnny Ramone grumbling in his dirty apartment about the lack of royalties and not getting any respect, and you can tell it's the same schpiel he's used for the last twenty years.
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post #21 of 23
12/13/09 at 6:45pm
The Ramones.. Happy go lucky lyrics.. Much better then the angry punk.. Truly a under appreciated group.. Loved the film Rock N Roll high school.. Joey Ramone is one of the best front men regardless of genre.. Loved the jackets & long hair.. 1 2 3 4.. I imagine the Ramones just picking up a guitar & playing regardless of what they were doing.. Fame never changed them IMO.. Some of the best guitar riffs ever.. Too bad their songs are way to short.. I wanna be well.. Commando... Babysitter.. Rock N Roll HS.. Some of my favs..
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post #22 of 23
12/17/09 at 11:05am
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Originally Posted by kool bubba ice View Post
The Ramones.. Happy go lucky lyrics.. Much better then the angry punk..
The humor in their lyrics is wonderful, no doubt. But they could also do the angry thing brilliantly. "I Wanna Be Well" is pretty harrowing, as are "We're A Happy Family," "Swallow My Pride," and "We Want the Airwaves." I also love their cover of the Heartbreakers's (Johnny Thunders's band, not Tom Petty's) "Chinese Rocks." And they occasionally got overtly political, as in "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg." That last one was supposedly a major bone of contention between Joey, a liberal, and Johnny, a major Reagan supporter. As if they didn't have enough to fight over already.

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Originally Posted by kool bubba ice View Post
Loved the film Rock N Roll high school
Me too. In an alternate universe, that film would have been a box-office smash. Paul and Mary Waranov, as the sympathetic teacher and the evil principal, respectively, were over-the-top hilarious.[/QUOTE]

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Originally Posted by kool bubba ice View Post
Too bad their songs are way to short.
I'd rather be left wanting more than rolling my eyes during a five-minute guitar solo. Don't get me wrong; I can happily listen to Hendrix or Duane Allman go off at length. But the Ramones came along at a time when every rock band seemed to have a guitar player who thought every idea that came into his coke-addled head was worth sharing. Punk in general, and The Ramones specifically, were the perfect antidote to that nonsense.
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post #23 of 23
12/17/09 at 8:02pm
Great band, but I like my punk with more "smart" lyrics. Noting wrong with humor, but it is really not my type of lyrics that I like.
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