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The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. Known for helping establish the punk movement in the United States and elsewhere, the Ramones are often cited as the first true punk rock band.
- Dee Dee Ramone
The Ramones ranked number 26 in Rolling Stone magazine's...
- Joey Ramone
Jeffrey Ross Hyman (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), known...
- Johnny Ramone
John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 – September 15,...
- Richie Ramone
Richard Reinhardt (born August 11, 1957) is an American...
- Tommy Ramone
Thomas Erdelyi (born Tamás Erdélyi, [ˈærdeji ˈtɒmaːʃ];...
- Marky Ramone
Marc Steven Bell (born July 15, 1952) is an American...
- Pleasant Dreams
Pleasant Dreams is the sixth studio album by the American...
- Ramones
Ramones is the debut studio album by the American punk rock...
- C. J. Ramone
Christopher Joseph Ward (born October 8, 1965), better known...
- Road to Ruin
Road to Ruin is the fourth studio album by the American punk...
- Dee Dee Ramone
The Ramones were an American punk rock band from New York City. Their discography consists of fourteen studio albums, ten live albums, sixteen compilation albums, seventy-one singles, thirty-two music videos and ten films.
- Background
- Recording and Production
- Lyrics and Composition
- Artwork and Packaging
- Promotion
- Reception
- Legacy and Influence
- Track Listing
- Personnel
- Further Reading
Ramones began playing gigs in mid-1974, with their first show at Performance Studios in New York City. The band, performing in a style similar to the one used on their debut album, typically performed at clubs in downtown Manhattan, specifically CBGB and Max's Kansas City. In early 1975, Lisa Robinson, an editor of Hit Parader and Rock Scene, saw t...
In January 1976 the band took a break from their live performances to prepare for recording at Plaza Sound studio. Sessions began later that month and were completed within a week for $6,400; the instruments took three days and the vocal parts were recorded in four days. In 2004, Leon admitted that they recorded Ramonesquickly due to budget restric...
The songs on Ramones addressed several lyrical themes including violence, male prostitution, drug use, and Nazism. While the moods displayed in the album were often dark, Johnny said that when writing the lyrics they were not "trying to be offensive." Many songs from the album have backing vocals from different guests. Leigh sang backing vocals on ...
Initially, the Ramones wanted an album cover similar to Meet the Beatles! (1964) and subsequently had pictures taken in that style by Danny Fields but Sire was dissatisfied with the results. The art direction was by Toni Wadler and, according to cartoonist John Holmstrom, the Meet The Beatles cover idea came out "horribly". Wadler later chose a pho...
Singles
There were two singles released from the album: "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend." The first was released in February 1976, originally as a 7" split single with "Havana Affair" as its B-side. The release, along with the Ramones 2001 Expanded Edition, featured "Blitzkrieg Bop" remixed as a single version, although it maintains a time of two minutes and twelve seconds. On January 6, 2004, Rhino Entertainment re-released "Blitzkrieg Bop" as a CD single, using "Sheena Is a Punk Roc...
Touring
In 1974 the band played 30 performances, nearly all at the New York-based club CBGB. All but one of the band's 1975 gigs were booked for New York City, with Waterbury, Connecticut as the exception. After the album's recording, the Ramones headlined for very few shows, usually opening for an identified cover band which played Aerosmith and Boston. When they opened at Brockton, Massachusetts, the audience appeared extremely uninterested in the Ramones so Johnny swore off playing as an introduct...
Ramones was released on April 23, 1976, by Sire Records and received glowing reviews. In May, John Rockwell of the New York Times published a rave review, saying: "What the Ramones do is deliver a nonstop set of short, brisk, monochromatically intense songs. ... conventional considerations of pace and variety are thrown calculatedly to the winds. T...
Ramones is considered to have established the musical genre of punk rock, as well as popularizing it years afterward. Rombes wrote that it offered "alienated future rock", and that it "disconnected from tradition." The album was the start of the Ramones' influence on popular music, with examples being genres such as heavy metal, thrash metal, indie...
All tracks originally credited to the Ramones (except "Let's Dance"). Actual writers are listed alongside the tracks. 2001 expanded edition CD Notes 1. Tracks 15 and 16 produced by Marty Thau at 914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, New York, September 1975. First issued on The Groups of Wrath: Songs of the Naked City(1991). 2. Tracks 17-21 produced by T. E...
Credits adapted from AllMusic,except otherwise noted. Ramones 1. Joey Ramone– lead vocals 2. Johnny Ramone– guitar 3. Dee Dee Ramone– bass, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "53rd & 3rd" 4. Tommy Ramone – drums, backing vocals,[a]hand claps Additional musicians 1. Craig Leon – pipe organ on "Let's Dance", additional guitar,[b] backing vocals[c] 2. ...
Dayton, Chip (2004). Ramones. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-903399-81-1.Stephens, Simon (2010). Punk Rock. A & C Black. ISBN 978-1-4081-3342-2.The Ramones, American band that influenced the rise of punk rock on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Their songs had a simple three-chord structure, were played at a blistering pace, and featured catchy, often willfully inane lyrics. They made their reputation with almost-nonstop touring.
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Ramones were an American punk rock group who formed in New York City in 1974 and broke up in 1996. All the members of the group had stage names which replaced their real last names with "Ramone." They were one of the first punk bands.
The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. Known for helping establish the punk movement in the United States and elsewhere, the Ramones are often cited as the first true punk band.
Seminal punk rockers who lit up the mid-'70s New York City scene by stripping rock & roll to the basics. Read Full Biography.
