The Ramones

[Garage_Doors]

Class act.
Shame only one of them is still with us.

 

[Buzzer]

At least it's the gun-toting right wing one.

And I have a Napalm Death tape in my loft somewhere. About 35 mina long and 60 odd "songs".

Can they technically be classified as songs?

I also saw Stormtroopers of Death once, Jeez that was hard work.

 

[Juan Albion]

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles has an e.p. titled 22 songs in 17 minutes......or something like that.

And then there is the Residents' 'Commercial Album' with twenty songs on each side, with all forty songs lasting exactly one minute. I've got it but I don't play it much.

 

[Trigger]

Can't remember the last music poll that was so one sided!

 

[Trufflehound]

1986 Brighton Top Rank. 10 years of punk and we're still here. 1234 straight into Blitzkrieg Bop!

I was there.

The Ramones were the soundtrack to my youth - I still have the original T-shirt I bought at a gig in London ca.1979.

Joey's grave in New Jersey is the only dead pop star I have ever made a pilgrimage to visit (I haven't even bothered with Jim Morrison's) - unless you count the impromptu shrine to Johnny outside CBGB's that had appeared because by sad coincidence he'd died two days before my trip. And yes I did take a ride out to Rockaway Beach...

 

[keaton]

I do think they're very good, but i listened to the 'best of' the day and after about five songs they did all blend into one

 

[The Auditor]

I do think they're very good, but i listened to the 'best of' the day and after about five songs they did all blend into one

exactly what my teenage daughters said ....told them they dont understand and that since 1976 the The Ramones were one of "The" bands.
as mentioned above the teeshirts do seem to be a fashion item

 

[Safeway]

Don't really know much about their music, but I can only assume that Ramones t-shirts are cheaper than ones that say 'I am a C U N T' judging by the specimens that wear them.

 

[Mr Blobby]

I saw them support U2 at Milton Keynes bowl back in 1985. They were excellent. Started every song 1.2.3.4 and then blast out songs that seamed to last about 30 seconds before starting again!!!

Great stuff

 

[Trufflehound]

I can only assume that Ramones t-shirts are cheaper than ones that say 'I am a C U N T' judging by the specimens that wear them.

I do find it a bit odd that all the kids who wear them are too young ever to have seen them or have any idea what the music meant at the time. It's a bit like me dressing up as Bill Haley - I can appreciate how he was important to the kids of that day, but he means f*** all to me personally.

 

[Trufflehound]

I saw them support U2 at Milton Keynes bowl back in 1985. They were excellent. Started every song 1.2.3.4 and then blast out songs that seamed to last about 30 seconds before starting again!!!

Great stuff

I was there too.

 

[Franks Wild Years]

So was I. It rained and oddly enough U2 were hateful .

 

[Trufflehound]

So was I. It rained and oddly enough U2 were hateful .

...and REM were bombarded by bottles of piss...

 

[Franks Wild Years]

...and REM were bombarded by bottles of piss...

Radio Pee Europe

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Radio Pee Europe

or 'All the Way from Renal (You're Gonna Be a Star)' perhaps?

 

[Gyuribá]

Did you know that the drummer is a hungarian guy?

 

[Trufflehound]

Did you know that the drummer is a hungarian guy?

Yes, but Tamás Ramone didn't really scan did it...

 

[Gyuribá]

Yes, but Tamás Ramone didn't really scan did it...

Yesterday evening was a TVshow about him. He is the only living member of the group