Ramones Thread -

[drtoboggan]

The Ramones: a singular force in rock music. Over the course of decades and albums, their influence runs across the spectrum of modern music. This thread is for pretty much anything connected to them: how they changed your life, who your favorite member is, which albums you own, which album is underrated, whatever you want.

 

[Artard]

How about tribute songs?

 

[drtoboggan]

I was thinking of that today. Good find. Heard they covered it as well but can't find the album. I know it was done sometime in the 90s, a few years after the Motörhead release. Love how it's a perfect fusion of both bands' sounds.

 

[The Dude]

The Ramones are my favorite band. While in California in 2013 I visited the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to visit the final resting place of Johnny and Dee Dee. It was a very spacial moment for me. Motorhead comes in at a very close second and I was crushed when Lemmy died. He was my last living hero and I had hoped to see them live one day.

 

[Gordon Cole]

Anyone ever see The Ramones documentary, End of the Century? It's one of my favorite music documentaries and it's equally fun, sad and illuminating.

 

[Wildchild]

The Ramones is a band that makes music. The members would be old so if they were around today it would be just like old people singing.

 

[spaps]

I feel like I should need to listen to more of The Ramones, considering how important the band is to my family. One of my dad's bands opened up for the Ramones back in the 80's, and he tells my sister and I that anything Joey ever said was pretty much unintelligible. We always used to listen to my dad's copy of Road to Ruin, but I've never actually heard any of their other albums.

 

[VoxyMusic]

They're definitely one of the most competent punk bands of their age, and certainly one of the most influential. Dee Dee and Johnny never played a wrong note.

 

[Bogs]

When my sister moved out of my parent's house, she left her CD's behind. Most of them were of no worth to anybody, except three: Licensed to Ill, The Clash and Ramones. She's never had need to get me birthday presents since.

Here's a less-often played track