![]() ![]() The Ramones were also first: the first band of the mid-'70's New York punk rock uprising to get a major-label contract and put an album out the first to rock the nation on the road and teach the British how noise annoys the first new American group of the decade to kick the smug, yellow-bellied shit out of a '60s superstar aristrocracy running on cocaine-and-caviar autopilot.Ībove all, the Ramones were pop: stone believers in the Top 40 7-inch-vinyl songwriting aesthetic a nonstop hit-singles machine with everything going for it - hammer-and-sizzle guitars and hallelujah choruses played at runaway-Beatles-velocity - except actual hits. Which seems like a weird thing to say about about a bunch of guys for whom a show, in 1974 or '75, could be six songs in a quarter of an hour. And they were fun, rock n' roll's most reliable Great Night Out for nearly a quarter of a century. They were stubborn, a marvel of bulldog determination and cast-iron pride in a business greased by negotiation and compromise. They were prolific - releasing 21 studio and live albums between 19 - and professional, typically cutting all of the basic tracks for one of those studio LPs in a matter of days. But the Ramones were many things, and gloriously so, from the moment of their inception in Forest Hills, New York, in 1974, until their final concert, 2,263, in Los Angeles on August 6, 1996. ![]() Were loud and fast - Everyone knows that, even the poor, blind saps who never loved the band. ![]()
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