HEY! HO! LET'S POLL: Ramones Memorial Poll nomination, discussion and voting thread for glue sniffing, headbanging, brat-beating and howling at the moon - voting closed

do it!

I'll vote! Hopefully I can whip a ballot up tomorrow.

yeah, id need abt 3 months for this...

i would just like to state for the record that my mom's least fave track of the later years was "She's a Sensation"

I went to check something about "I Want You Around" before voting, I had completely forgotten it was on End of the Century

? It is not on End of the Century

Looked too quickly: it's on the expanded CD version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_the_Century

A good thing for people to do on a Friday night would be to listen to a lot of Ramones and rank their ballots.

Don't forget Loudmouth!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoOWot3efxY

oh I won't

"Cabbies on Crack," from Mondo Bizarro, is one of the better late-period tracks, I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACLBLLV3Hc4

haha, I just realized it was a top 25 after agonizing over my top 20.

voted!

Your 5 favorite Ramones, in ranked order

Uncle Floyd?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LSN18-nWT6c/UIlUAuK2XwI/AAAAAAAADao/A-59bIftNvY/s1600/Ramones-Uncle-Floyd.jpg

Does this count as a cover?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqhpTjP36HM

Did you get more ballots over the weekend?

I just voted!

I listened to the first 6 albums having only been familiar with the hits. I originally planned to listen to the whole lot but I ran out of steam lol.

finally, happily doing the listening to figure out my ballot, you can count on me

ok I better do this soon

Well, we're into double digits but it will be a low turnout poll -- so get those ballots in! Your vote could make the difference!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmCtzatHXvk

more fun with wikipedia

Music[edit]
Like almost all Ramones songs, the time signature is 4/4. It alternates two verses with a chorus; the second chorus is followed by a bridge, after which the first verse and the chorus are repeated with a change of key.

The results thread should be titled "Have The Rolling Stones Killed"

argh gimme a couple of hours

SENT!

Possibly covered earlier, but--are you sending confirmation emails, tipsy?

I kinda can't bring myself to compose a ballot even though I love them so much because a) I kinda wanna rank everything from the first four records equally and b) I can't really bring myself to listen to the late 80s stuff

c'mon just bite the bullet and rank the early stuff.

OK, sent!

ok fine I voted

http://sp9.fotolog.com/photo/41/60/61/ramonesmania/1137371420_f.jpg

VOTED

did no relistening at all as I was going to Ramones shows before most of you were lobotomized

Possibly covered earlier, but--are you sending confirmation emails, tipsy?

Yep. Just caught up on the latest batch, so if you've sent a ballot and not gotten a response, let me know.

been mostly listening to the original albums and sporadically dipping into the bonus tracks on the reissues but there's some interesting stuff there. there are demos on the deluxe Subterranean Jungle that sound so much better than anything on the overproduced proper album, great otherwise unreleased song called "No One To Blame," the closest thing a Ramones recording ever got to the kind of flat '80s garage band production that almost every Ramones-influenced band has recorded with.

Just voted.

finishing my ballot, just read it aloud to my wife because i just love their song titles so much

Voted.

Sent!

Is voting closed on this?

Yes, but ... If anything shows up by tonight it will still be counted.

i like the dee dee king album a lot. if it were a proper ramones album it should come in just behind pleasant dreams. did debbie harry guest vocal on any other ramones record?

Voted late, but still voted. <crosses fingers>

XP Debbie Harry sings on "Go Li'l Camaro Go" on Halfway To Sanity.

All right, ended up with 24 votes. Tallying now. Will try to get results started over the weekend.

cool!

very upset with myself for forgetting to vote for "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)"

I fit that in near the bottom of my ballot.

I had only one late-career track on mine, bcz I don't wanna be buried in a pet sematary.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8301/7884894328_d95d1f4a41_z.jpg

"Pet Sematary"'s great--right up there with the Beatles "I'm So Tired" or the Replacements' "Rock 'n' Roll Ghost" in the not-sure-I-want-to-do-this-anymore genre (probably many other examples).

There's an interview with Marky where he talks about how Dee Dee wrote Pet Sematary in 40 minutes while they were having dinner at Stephen King's house. I guess Dee Dee walked away from the table while the rest of them were sitting there hanging out with Stephen King, and when he came back he had the song.

OK, tallying is complete. Will try to get started with the side polls tomorrow, followed by two days of tracks results.

http://www.spin.com/articles/morrissey-ramones-greatest-hits-album-curating-cover/

He shoulda waited for the poll results.