He's some kind of ageless wonder, really, nothing to apologize for.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2021 20:57 (three years ago) link
Davidson looks a lot more like Joey than he did Tom Zutaut.
― peace, man, Friday, 16 April 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
Tranya trayna, we accept youWe accept you, one of us
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
Pleased to meet you, Captain.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
Misspelled the second tranya, making my lame joke even lamer :(
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
Here's hoping Tommy's Hungarian childhood is covered.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Friday, 16 April 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
Hope so.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 April 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
Just noticed that a bunch of Ramones videos on Youtube that seem to be official have no sound right now.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link
Like this, the first hit for this song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HUGeA2lur4
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 April 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link
But not this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GudM-IjhvSo
From some angles, Charlie Heaton is almost the spitting image of Dee Dee.
― o. nate, Saturday, 17 April 2021 02:28 (three years ago) link
^I see it
https://celebrityxyz.com/i/p/2/69.jpg
― JRN, Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
Isn’t that another guy, SNL guy?
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:13 (three years ago) link
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!
― xzanfar, Saturday, 17 April 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
xp i think you're thinking of bill hader, lol
― eisimpleir (crüt), Saturday, 17 April 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
Yes, I was coming back to post exactly that. The SNL guy who likes R.A. Lafferty.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 April 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
This is news, yeah? Saw it on Twitter a couple of days ago...
"JEFFREY HYMAN (JEFF STARSHIP ) (JOEY RAMONE) WITH HIS PRE RAMONES BAND, 'SNIPER' LIVE in THE UNDERGROUND TONIGHT SHOW in 1973"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQqGF8uW3Hw
― jaywbabcock, Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
Think so
― Presenting the Fabulous Redettes Featuring James (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 January 2022 20:55 (two years ago) link
Where are my safety pins? What'd you do with my safety pins, what is this?
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
Also, We're Outta Here just popped up in the play sequence and I am surprised at how much I am liking it.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
i have ramones mania is good enough for me!
― xzanfar, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:36 (two years ago) link
First four albums, the first live album and Too Tough to Die are all great. The rest have at least one or two excellent tracks.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
I can agree with that except I never listened to To Tough to Die. Guess I will give it a try soon.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
it's a good one!
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
yeah too tough to die is great!
― visiting, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
First five albums I'd say.
― Alfred Ndwego of Kenya (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
First 4 + Too Tough to Die otm
― Josefa, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
Their debut is by far their best. I'd say Pleasant Dreams has as many good songs as Rocket to Russia.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
xxp The Spector album didn't live up to my hopes, but it's got great stuff, especially "Danny Says." Definitely worth checking out.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link
An argument for the '80s albums.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
The ‘80s albums have to be argued for, the ‘70s ones speak for themselves
― Josefa, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 23:04 (two years ago) link
I love a lot of stuff the 80s albums. Animal Boy is what brought me into the fold, so that's the one that will always have my heart. I want synths in my Ramones! Mental Hell does not feel 2.5 minutes long to me. That song is epic. After that, I bought Brain Drain. When I then went back to get the first album, it was truly a different band that it took a few listens for me to understand, kinda like this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ybn8hqTj8s
I've been waiting for a while for a reissue of the 80s albums, and lo and behold this Record Store Day, there is a 7-LP box set (Pleasant Dreams, Subterranean Jungle, Too Tough To Die, Animal Boy, Halfway To Sanity, Brain Drain, and a rarities disc). But I definitely don't want to buy a 7-LP box set of the 80s Ramones records. I could make do with maybe half of them. Really hope they all get re-released on their own after this.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link
On my Ramones poll ballot, I didn't even have anything from the 70s until 9th place, that's where my head is at.
1. Poison Heart - I just want to walk right out of a world where Poison Heart didn't even place in a Ramones poll.2. Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)3. Pet Semetary4. I Wanna Live5. I Believe In Miracles6. Something To Believe In7. Eat That Rat8. Love Kills9. I Just Wanna Have Something to Do10. Chinese Rock11. 53rd & 3rd12. Mental Hell13. Loudmouth14. Don’t Bust My Chops15. Mama’s Boy16. My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)17. Havana Affair18. Judy Is a Punk19. Apeman Hop20. She Belongs to Me21. We Want the Airwaves22. Danny Says23. Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)24. We’re a Happy Family25. Rockaway Beach
― peace, man, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 23:17 (two years ago) link
The Ramones’ career after the first couple of albums was one long continuous attempt to sell out, with no one ever buying. Doing 1960s covers didn’t work. Working with Phil Spector didn’t work. Doing a Roger Corman film didn’t work. Adding synthesizers didn’t work. Theme song to a Stephen King movie didn’t work.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link
Rhino's two-CD Hey! Ho! Let's Go! anthology does a good job of cherrypicking from the '80s, maybe even an amazing job if you don't think it's too generous. (It's in chronological order and the Spector cuts close the first disc.)
It's also my introduction to the Ramones. I knew OF them thanks to The Simpsons but I didn't really know who they were until I read an L.A. Times review for Rhino's set that explained their place in rock history. I found that set later at my library and it wasn't long before I got those first four albums.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 23:38 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I had Hey Ho for a while back in the day. It's pretty solid.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
I like Pleasant Dreams so much I wrote a whole thread about it. And yeah, TTTD is really good too. Animal Boy has some filler, but it also has Richie Ramone's great "Somebody Put Something in My Drink," plus "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg." (And "Crummy Stuff," maybe as close as Dee Dee got in the '80s to writing like it was 1976.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 03:04 (two years ago) link
"Somebody Put Something in My Drink" is actually the first Ramones song I remember encountering. I was a kid, somewhere in the single digits in age, and my parents took me to someone's home and it was playing in the basement where their kids were. Like pop music in general was still esoteric for me and it was such a weird song to me the title lyric just stuck. I never heard that song again but I always remembered it, and I was surprised to find it on Hey! Ho!, like "Wow, THESE are the guys who did that song?"
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link
Because I am lolold it's fascinating to me that youngsters could have first encountered The Ramones via Animal Boy, or via The Simpsons. It's a whole different viewpoint than mine. Cool, actually.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
Yes, exactly.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:27 (two years ago) link
The first Ramones thing I ever heard was It's Alive - I remember thinking it was all the same song but that soon changed
― StanM, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:28 (two years ago) link
The first time I heard the Ramones, it was Eat That Rat. When I was in elementary school, maybe 4th or 5th grade, I would just sit up in my room spinning the radio dial and taping whatever music I found. On this particular late 80s day, I landed on a station that may have been a pre-corporate WHFS. The songs I got that day were Eat That Rat by Ramones, Rise Above by Black Flag, Peek-a-Boo by Siouxsie and the Banshees, and a cover of Helter Skelter by Mighty Sphincter. Then they segued into a report on Orioles baseball. I really dug the first two and sought out their albums a year or two later; there was a lot I didn't understand about the Siouxsie song and she kinda scared me a little; and later that day when I asked my parents what "sphincter" meant, it was definitely an awkward moment.
Wish I still had that tape.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
My sister-in-law had Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin, which I don't remember playing but certainly did read the lyric sheet. My other brother had lots of English punk but no Ramones. My first encounter with them as a music fan would have been the "Something to Believe In" video, all of which gave me the impression they were a "funny" band, like Devo.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
So many good cameos in that video.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:36 (two years ago) link
The first album I heard was Leave Home, in maybe 1986 or '87. I definitely owned it, the debut, and Rocket to Russia before Ramones Mania came out in '88. I only saw them live once, in 1989 or 1990, and they were amazing — it felt like they played 50 songs in an hour and a half. (It was really only about 30, but they absolutely blasted through them.) The opening acts were GBH and Warzone, and I remember a lot of punk vs skin fights before the Ramones came on.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
A friend saw them on the Escape from New York tour in 1990, where Chris Frantz of Tom Tom Club came onstage right after the Ramones begging people to stay for their set.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:50 (two years ago) link
I saw that tour! Debbie Harry headlined. I still have the t-shirt.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
Debbie Harry showed up recently in another context in a Commodore commercial with Andy Warhol.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
There’s also this, which is read by AI Andy in the recent doc:
Monday, August 15, 1983 Cabbed to meet Jean Michel Basquiat at the workout with Lidija, he was doing it with us (cab $5). He’s in love with Paige Powell. Got a call from Pia Zadora who said she wanted a Dollar Sign and she’d take it with her if it fit into her husband’s jet, so they were measuring it. Oh, and one of the Ramones was having brain surgery yesterday because he was kicked in the head on West 10th Street in a fight over some cheap-looking girl.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
Holy crap, I didn't even know that story.
Quick google search came up with an article published shortly after and a Dangerous Minds blog post. I knew about Joey and Johnny's fallout over Joey's ex/Johnny's soon-to-be wife, but man, not that.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link