![]() Although The Ramones never achieved mainstream financial success, they released 21 live and studio albums, had a devoted fan base and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. By cutting music down to its bare essentials – four chords a simple, catchy melody a sped up tempo and irresistibly inane lyrics, the Ramones blazed the trail for thousands of bands that followed, influencing everyone from The Clash and The Sex Pistols to Green Day and The Offspring. ![]() (It’s recommended that you listen to this on Spotify as their embed only has 200 songs.Ignited the punk-rock movement with their eponymous 1976 debut album, revitalizing rock and roll at one of its lowest ebbs with attitude, energy and a loud, fast new sound. It's origins date back to the summer of 1977, when 'Sheena Is a Punk Rocker' was released as a single. “Teenage Lobotomy” live at the US Festival (!), 1982Ī filterable, searchable & sortable somewhat up to date database with links to every “Certain Song” post I’ve ever written. Details Reviews (0) Ramones’ third studio album, Rockets to Russia, pushes the band forward as they get better at their instruments and their old-school pop influences appear more clearly. Rocket to Russia is the third studio album by the American punk rock band The Ramones, and was released on November 4, 1977, through Sire Records. Rocket to Russia is the third studio album by the American punk rock band The Ramones, and was released on. It was t read more Similar Albums Group Sex Circle Jerks 158,511 listeners L.A.M.F. It was released on Novemthrough Sire Records. I mean, that’s just sheer fucking genius on every level. DESCRIPTION Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Length 14 tracks Release Date 1 January 1977 Rocket to Russia is the third studio album by the American punk rock band Ramones. Also check out the structure of each verse: the first two lines set up the situation the next two make a joke about it, the fifth is an even better joke, and the final line is “ I’m a teenage lobotomy.”Īlso: you might remember that yesterday (or whenever) I pointed out how great it was that “ We’re a Happy Family” rhymed “magazines” with “Thorazines” and yet that’s topped with perhaps the funniest rhyme in any rock ‘n’ roll song ever: “Now I guess I’ll have to tell ’em / That I got no cerebellum.”. It’s probably the greatest of their mental health songs, it’s certainly the craziest. What makes this Ramones song different from all other Ramones songs? The 3CD/1LP ROCKET TO RUSSIA: 40th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION will be available for 64.98. Foreshadowing!)Ĥ0+ years later, of course, this seems as ludicrous as every other rock controversy of the time, but even now, it’s impossible for me to think that Johnny Rotten would ever conceive of, much less sing lyrics like: To celebrate the albums 40-year anniversary, Rhino will release two versions on November 24. (And even longer for Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, which I didn’t get until some point in 1979, and near-instantly became one of my all-time favorite records. And so Rocket to Russia stalled out at #49 on the Billboard charts, and even curious folk like me were turned off enough to wait nearly a full year to try it. tour - a pretty huge news story for a band that nobody had really heard here - and subsequent break-up somehow cast a pall over both the U.S. A similarity to their previous releases, the lyrics integrated humor, black humor if I had to point it out, circling mental disorders and psychiatry. The Ramones provided the blueprint and Leave Home duplicated it with lesser results, but the Ramones third album, Rocket to Russia, perfected it. Rocket to Russia is a bit more of what some would call surf music or bubblegum pop influenced. La música es propiedad de Ramones, solo con fines de entretenimientoTodos los derechos para el AutorCanciones 00:00 - Cretin Hop 01:55 - Rockaway Beach 04:02. That’s of course, an overstatement, but their trainwreck of a U.S. Rocket to Russia was released November 4th 1977 by the legendary punk-rock band The Ramones. In some of of the books I’ve read about the Ramones and this period - most notably Everett True’s loving Hey Ho Let’s Go: The Story of the Ramones and Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s dishy Please Kill Me: The Oral History of Punk (emphasis on “oral”), Rocket to Russia was positioned to be the album that would break them once and for all. That’s how side two of Rocket to Russia started: Joey shouting “LOBOTOMY!” over Tommy weird-ass snare/tom pattern, joined after the third one by Dee Dee’s throbbing bass and after the fourth one by Johnny’s snarling guitar, the whole band crashing and bashing for a bit until Joey starts singing.
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