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Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited August 2010 in Other Music
I don't think I've seen a thread about one of my all time favourite bands.
To think of how many bands these guys influences is phenomenal, they gave so many kids the confidence to make music despite these kids never having music training. True legends!

What is your favourite album and what do you think is their best album?

For me...
Favourite: Leave Home
Best: Rocket to Russia
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    I like the Ramones' more known songs in small doses.

    I've always heard that they were massively influential but fail to see it.
  • dasvidanadasvidana Grand Junction CO Posts: 1,349
    I saw the Ramones live in the 80's and I must say their live show allowed me to experience their music in a new way. Suddenly, I couldn't wait to get home and hear them on vinyl. As for favorities, I don't really have one.
    It's nice to be nice to the nice.
  • cdp1223cdp1223 Posts: 1,131
    The Ramones were one of the first real bands I got into as a kid...they were my gateway into my teens when I covered my car in stickers, blew out my speakers on a weekly basis, and decided to only date guys in bands....yeah THOSE years.

    My favorite is the self titled debut.
    The best? probably same as above with Rocket to Russia trailing close behind.
    The one I played the most and had to replace twice? End of the Century, but only because I listened to Chinese Rock every day in high school, I think.

    Can I also mention that I like that you differentiate between YOUR favorite and something that is objectively the BEST? I argue this point to my husband constantly....he just doesn't get it.
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    :) Thanks.

    Yeah they were my #1 band in my teens, until I got into PJ ;)
    Johnny Ramone is the reason I picked up a guitar!
    They will always be in my top 3 bands!
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    Road to Ruin,
    and i have no shame about saying that.
    I don't give a fuck what the "critics" have to say.

    Don't Come Close and Questioningly ROCK.
    Okay, maybe they don't "rock", but i love it.

    The Ramones are kind of like The Beatles to me.
    Great body of work,
    no album really stands out that well as a single example.
    They spread their greatness over many different records.

    But if i had to pick one, it would be Road to Ruin.
    And for the Beatles, it would probably be Beatles For Sale, if anyone is asking.
    (I'm a Loser, Every Little Thing, and What You're Doing are the shit)
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • cdp1223cdp1223 Posts: 1,131
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    Road to Ruin,
    and i have no shame about saying that.
    I don't give a fuck what the "critics" have to say.

    Don't Come Close and Questioningly ROCK.
    Okay, maybe they don't "rock", but i love it.

    The Ramones are kind of like The Beatles to me.
    Great body of work,
    no album really stands out that well as a single example.
    They spread their greatness over many different records.

    But if i had to pick one, it would be Road to Ruin.
    And for the Beatles, it would probably be Beatles For Sale, if anyone is asking.
    (I'm a Loser, Every Little Thing, and What You're Doing are the shit)

    Glad you inserted the caveat of Questioningly NOT rocking... ;)
    I think I have lost the ability to say the name of that song correctly because I always think of the part in Rock n Roll High School where she yells it out in response to the radio contest. Questioningingly!!
  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,698
    I saw them on Lollapalooza '96 and opening for PJ in 95 and I didn't like them at all.

    I really dig them now and wish I had appreciated them more when I saw them.

    I only have "Loud Fast", a greatest hits album and Pet Semetary that I bought off itunes.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    How is this the ONLY ramones thread created?
    the-ramones-biopic.jpg
    And I'm bumpin' this baby from last May!

    One of the coolest bands ever.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    I'm back on a Ramones kick. Love this shit. So simple, so perfect.

    She went away for the holidays
    says she's going to LA
    but she never got there
    she never got there
    she never got there, they say.

    The KKK took my baby away
    they took my girl, they took my baby away
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Jackie is a punk Judy is a runt
    They both went down to Berlin, joined the Ice Capades
    And oh, I don't know why Oh, I don't know why
    Perhaps they'll die, oh yeah, perhaps they'll die, oh yeah
    Perhaps they'll die, oh yeah, perhaps they'll die, oh yeah
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • craigbcraigb Posts: 806
    DewieCox wrote:
    I like the Ramones' more known songs in small doses.

    I've always heard that they were massively influential but fail to see it.

    I agree with Cox.
    "Speak clearly if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall"

    Los Angeles 10.7.2009
  • Bathgate66Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Its not hard,
    not far to reach ,
    we can hitch a ride
    to Rockaway Beach !

    Yeah !
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    That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
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