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

Hey youz guys, "Mama's Boy" might be my favorite Ramones song. Surely it's my favorite non-fast one. Everyone's a closet lame.

There's the skeleton of a decent album there, it's true. If you took "Chasing The Night" off Side One it'd be about as good as any side from the previous three albums, and would sound like a bit of a refreshing approach.

Pleasant Dreams is my find of the poll so far. "It's Not My Place (in the 9 to 5 World)" is them doing Tom Waits' "I Don't Want To Grow Up" years before they got around to actually covering it.

And name-dropping Lester Bangs six years before R.E.M. (Really name-dropping, as in hanging-around-with, which wasn't the case with R.E.M.)

I always thought the lyric was "Everyone's a closet ned." I'll have to relisten. Anyway, both that one and Howling at the Moon made my ballot.

I honestly don't think they made a bad album until Halfway to Sanity. My top tracks list is at 41 and I am having a miserable time making any cuts.

xp: I also thought the preceding lyric was "jelly bean breath". It's obviously "brain" now that I'm listening and reading along with the lyrics, so I guess I'll go along with "closet lame", even though it's still pretty garbled.

Thanks, how's life, for that brilliant dn.

lol. Didn't think of that in an ilx context.

Until I went to check something about "I Want You Around" before voting, I had completely forgotten it was on End of the Century--I thought it was a soundtrack-only song, I so strongly associate it with Rock 'n' Roll High School. The highlight of a great film (along with the Ramones rolling up to the big show as they play "I Just Want to Have Something to Do"). I don't know how anybody kept a straight face, unless they didn't--maybe it took them 40 takes to get through it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2GVx-9rL9Y

5 days left to vote! We need some more ballots to get the vote count out of the single digits. (Not that I was anticipating a massive turnout, but c'mon.)

In typical me-fashion, my ballot will arrive in the final hours of the voting window.

^^^

Oh seriously? We've got to have more Ramones fans than that.

I'm going to edit your thread title to include the date the poll closes.

I could submit a poll, but it would probably only consist of songs from the first three records.

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?