Ken Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 My God, will there ever be anyone else that will be as cool? No Wiki links because they wouldn't have wanted that. Rock 'N Roll High School We Want The Airwaves Time Has Come Today I Wanna Be Sedated The KKK Took My Baby Away Rockaway Beach Pet Semetary Blitzkreig Bop Poison Heart I Don't Want To Grow Up Baby I Love You (A true gem) Sheena Is A Punk Rocker. The funniest excerpt from the Ramones "Anthology" disc is from their road manager. He was driving them in a van from gig to gig. They had stopped for gas, and a woman approached him and commended him for taking 'those retarded men out for the day.' Gabba Gabba Hey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie_sane Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 I love the Ramones. It's inexplicable. I don't even remember how or why I started listening to them. They were just unlike anything I'd ever heard before. I Remember You Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World I Just Want To Have Something To Do And this one for edna: Needles & Pins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elie Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 man i was just listening to rockaway beach its awsome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 This is not a criticism of the band or it's huge fan base per se, but I just never got the Ramones . They sound to me like your average teenage-themed R&R band , and rather simplistic- a faster paced and more interesting Sha-Na-Na, if you will . I can appreciate a few of their songs , but I guess they never became my cup of tea . I realize they were a step in changing the direction of rock in the '70s , but , to me, just a baby step . I think Blondie and the Talking Heads were far more important and inspired , and if they were inspired by the Ramones , then that is all well and good . But their music doesn't stand alone , to me , as 'great '. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 They were just The Ramones... Maybe a baby step but a very important step... after all, first baby steps are the way we all learn to walk... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 They were the band that proved that any old bunch of kids could make it in the big time. You don't have to be good looking; you don't have to be great musicians; you don't even have to have some cool gimmick...you just have to wanna rock out and have fun! The Ramones did that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 In other words , they gave you hope, then . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 They "discovered" Billy Joel .. or were at least were instrumental in getting him signed to a label, as I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Sorry, man, but I'm afraid that you may be "misremembering" something you may have heard years ago. Billy Joel released his first album some three years before the Ramones even formed as a band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Joel's producer is Phil Ramone. I just inserted him into that NYC family erroneously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 You really have to an open mind to all musical genre to appreciate a band like the Ramones, I believe. The best blurb I've read on the Ramones is this one... An Ode To The Ramones The Ramones personify punk. No matter what others might say, The Ramones truly were the "first" first punk band. When I first heard their sound, it was as if I was listening to music for the first time. Their music was devoid of pretensions. They were the anti-beatles, anti-led zep, anti-stones, anti-who. It was not that they resented those groups, on the contrary, The Ramones adored those bands, it was that they understood that rock was nothing more than rock. By stripping down music to three-chords, a catchy tune, and playing it faster than their instruments could handle, The Ramones reinvented music. But more importantly, it was a band that played honestly. Throughout their long carreer they never really changed their formula. They refused to evolve. They were conscious that their musical innocence would be lost if they attempted to deviate from their beginnings. And it is exactly that innocence, that pure, unshakable love for rock that has made them last the test of time. Long live The Ramones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Mike, why do you never credit your quotes? It'd be interesting to know who made them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 Mike, why do you never credit your quotes? It'd be interesting to know who made them. I NEVER credit my quotes? Well I wasn't aware of that. Nor did I really care actually. This was saved in a music file on my computer Shawna. But you know what? I did take the first 15 words of this quote to a place called... Google... and found "a" source. But I don't know if that's the origin. Funny thing about quotes these days with internet, it can be very difficult sometimes finding who was ACTUALLY the originator of a quote. You see many things get references by others over and over. Unless things are dated, or Copyrighted. But when I post news, or ultra-relevant quotes, likely to be debated or challenged, I post a source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 'scuse me. Mama always told me that "never" is a very big word, and I shouldn't use words that are big like that. My apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 Yeah, but did she say to never do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 I'm more of a Stooges fan, myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 "Shawna:- 'scuse me. Mama always told me that "never" is a very big word, and I shouldn't use words that are big like that. My apologies." There can be only ONE response to this.... oh, and, of course,... apology accepted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 They were the band that proved that any old bunch of kids could make it in the big time. You don't have to be good looking; you don't have to be great musicians; you don't even have to have some cool gimmick...you just have to wanna rock out and have fun! The Ramones did that. Yeah that's true, and it always bothers me how so many adults who like the Ramones just assume that this doesn't happen today too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Exactly, Dude! They were the inspiration for about 95% of today's bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphany Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 I remember seeing Rock n Roll High School when I was like eight... I've loved them ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 I love, love, love R&RHS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 THE MOUSE WITH THE HEADPHONES KICKS A$$!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott Posted September 20, 2008 Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 The Ramones' first album was awesome, but they really weren't that important The Stooges and MC5 definitely pre-date the Ramone's and were infinitely more 'punk' And as far as Ramones' contemporaries go, the Manchester scene was far more innovative and expansive, and if we take the term contemporaries to a more historical sense (in classical music, you can be a composer's 'contemporary' if you wrote within like 30 years of them) then the NY scene just a couple years after the Ramones is far more interesting The no-wave scene took an 'ethos' from punk rock but created an entire new way of playing music. Which of course was led by Sonic Youth, a band that was far more talented, and more productive than any of those quick to burn out 'punk' bands, in fact SY released a killer disc not much longer than a year ago. Tho, I'll admit, Sonic Youth is one of those bands that you have to be open to all musical genre to really appreciate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted September 20, 2008 Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 Except the Ramones were really popular so that makes them more important than the Stooges and MC5 by default. The Sonics was another good pre-punk band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_CATdHIFnc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott Posted September 20, 2008 Report Share Posted September 20, 2008 More popular to the masses, probably but who do you think was more popular to the people picking up instruments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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