The Ramones : Classic Or Dud

I didn't get to see them live until 1989 or 1990; CJ had just joined the band. They were amazing, though; I swear they played 40 songs in 75 minutes. The show was crazy violent, though, because the opening acts were GBH and Warzone. Lots of fights between old-school punk types and NYHawdCoah knuckle-walkers.

that they produced those four albums (plus It's Alive and End of the Century) in the space of barely more than three years is astounding, such a great hot streak, it rivals any other run of consistently great material in the ~history of rock~

1987 Ramones show I saw was the most crazy violent gig, too. They drew in a large array of outcasts with different expectations and altered states, not the typical HC pit.

HI DERE

No more of your fairy stories
Cause I’ve got my own worries

“Dad what’s turn a trick?”

1974 performance kills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwsVWZ-c8Eo

I always wonder what that sounded like to people in '74.

It sounded like a joke or novelty act to a lot of people, from what I've read.

Good to see the onstage arguing between songs was not just a myth.

We do know for sure what it sounded like to Lou Reed in 1975.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-f2rz2G9AI

there’s also the “covers album” phase.

Good to see the onstage arguing between songs was not just a myth.

Ha, exactly

I love that Lou Reed reaction so much...

Classic or dud: Pete Davidson as Joey Ramone

We really should take a stab at rounding out the rest of the cast

It's like they took the Adam Driver model of an awkward and gawky guy who is not considered traditionally handsome but has legions of female fans anyway and tried to map it onto Davidson but without the part about actually being good at acting.

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Joey's hard to cast, he's so tall! That's probably Davidson's best attribute in terms of casting, he's only a few inches shorter.

Rami Malek might make a decent Dee Dee, with the right bangs.

Ideal casting for Dee Dee would be a younger Michael Shannon. Honestly he might still be able to pull it off.

I love the Marones but have no interest in some shitty movie about them

They should do it all CG.

OTM

The first shot should be the cover of Road To Ruin.

I hope, a la the Taxi stuff in Man on the Moon, that there's a few scenes of them shooting Rock n' Roll High School with PJ Soles and Clint Howard reprising their roles as high school students.

And Mary Woronov, of course.

(This is where I reveal that I was shockingly old when I learned just now that PJ Soles is a decade older than Clint Howard, how is that even possible)

Some kind of time loop, maybe?

I've long found it comical that they were trying to pass off the balding and clearly almost middle-aged Howard as a teenager in movies such as RnRHS and Evilspeak but...he was actually in his early twenties at the time?!?

Everything I thought I knew to be true...

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Sorry

*ducks*

lol, yeah, I should've been able to put two and two together and realize that the kid from Star Trek didn't somehow age forty years between then and the late '70s but my brain, she does not always work so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MOseipVc8

He's some kind of ageless wonder, really, nothing to apologize for.

Davidson looks a lot more like Joey than he did Tom Zutaut.

Tranya trayna, we accept you
We accept you, one of us

Pleased to meet you, Captain.

Misspelled the second tranya, making my lame joke even lamer :(

Here's hoping Tommy's Hungarian childhood is covered.

Hope so.

Just noticed that a bunch of Ramones videos on Youtube that seem to be official have no sound right now.

Like this, the first hit for this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HUGeA2lur4

But not this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GudM-IjhvSo

From some angles, Charlie Heaton is almost the spitting image of Dee Dee.

^I see it

https://celebrityxyz.com/i/p/2/69.jpg

Isn’t that another guy, SNL guy?

ramones mania is their best and a good start for beginners as i am not a huge fan of theirs but i could get into them more starting with their first release!

xp i think you're thinking of bill hader, lol

Yes, I was coming back to post exactly that. The SNL guy who likes R.A. Lafferty.