Absolutely Live - Blitzkrieg

Advantages: Non-stop energetic over the top hour of brilliance
Disadvantages: Everything sounds the same if you're not a fan

...A tragically ironic name considering the majority of the original band have since passed. Anyway, this cd is an hour long bust of energy that does not let you go. Although their songs may lack originality after a while they are each brilliant on their own. For all you Punks that think greenday was the real thing (or even people believing the sex pistols to have started it all) the Ramones were punk before it even existed. Their limitless energy, over the top performance and trashy 3 chord 4/4 rock amount to one of the original punk / rock and roll bands. For fans there are all the favourites, Blitzkrieg bop, Judy is a punk, Rockaway beach, Sheena is a punk rocker etc played live and furiously. The Ramones are a band that is definitely at its best when playing live. Originaliy - both Groundbreaking and Completely unoriginal. Valus... Read review

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Advantages: 30 of the Ramones greatest songs!
Disadvantages: -

...The only Ramones album you will ever need to buy! A massive 30 track album which features all of the Ramones best songs spanning thier music career. A fast, racey album in which all the songs are around 2minutes long but remain unforgettable. Their music style could be described as 'simple' but it works perfectly. A simple drum beat with guitars that feature no solos, and Joey Ramones loud and fast lyrics which are more basic than a nursery rhyme complement each other so well you will listen to this over and over and over. Best Tracks- I Wanna Live- featured on THP8 (xbox and xbox360) Blitzkrieg Bop- featured on THPS3 (xbox and ps2) Sheena Is A Punk Rocker Bonzo Goes To Bitburg- featured on the movie 'Rock School' Rock and Roll Highschool- featured on THUG1 (xbox) A basic and revolutionary punk band displaying their port folio... Read review

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Advantages: The Ramones first album... Perfect Punk Pop
Disadvantages: Short

...This album lasts about 30 minutes and came out around late 1975. There's fourteen tracks all clocking around two minutes or less. It's a historic album coz it's their debut, and in todays CD orientated socuiety , "It's Alive" may be a better purchase, being longer , live and Ramones. It opens with "Blitzkrieg Bop", which was a single, minimal chords and lyrics and lots of repetition and no guitar solos ,just bits where the Joey the singer doesn't sing. It also contains the complete story of Troilus and Cressida (or substitute any other pair of lovers names there) in two minutes in the sublime "I don't wanna walk around with you". Titles like "Judy is a Punk","Beat on the Brat (with a baseball bat)", make this a superb album. They're a wonderfully funny cartoon rock'nroll band. Someone once described Ramones tunes as like smarties... Read review

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