How does it compare to the artist's other releases
Outstanding
Value for Money
Advantages:
Possibly The Best album ever made
Disadvantages:
You must be joking
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
I assume this is the "It's Alive" album and am reviewing / opinionating as such. Now under the proper heading.
If Ramones songs can be equated to smarties (you can never have just one) , and albums by logical extension therefore equated to a tube of smarties, this is one of those huge tubes that you get at Christmas. This outguns their studio albums and their compilations. It's got 28 tracks , the longest of which clock in at a mammoth two minutes and forty seconds (now I know what Charles Edward Berry was on about when he wrotr "Roll Over Beethoven".
All Ramones songs start with One-Two-Three-Four then into buzzsaw guitar driven 4/4 rock'n'roll, and this is over an hour of it. Can you overdose on perfection?
If I had to have one desert island disc this would be it. From the opening "Rockaway Beach" to the closing "We're a Happy Family" you have twenty eight pieces of brilliance. This is one CD that you will never program, as ever track is as good as each other.
Your treated to Surfin' Bird (the first ever Surf Song which was nothing to do with surfing , orginally by the Trashmen and later covered by The Cramps) one of the longer tracks at 2.19.
It's got Lets Dance, Sheena is A Punk Rocker , Blitzkrieg Bop and lots more.
In fact this is probably the best album ever made....probably
It's on mid price so you've no excuse for not buying it...so just buy it.
You may have gathered that I think it's quite good
I've deliberately put that it's completely unoriginal, it is , but no one sdoes the Ramones as good as the Ramones, and this them doing The Ramones the best.
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Outstanding
Cover / Inlay Design and Content
Outstanding
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