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Post subject: Ramones (1976)
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:45 pm
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I'm relistening to it (again) and I feel no clear/definable emotion/goal within this album.

I'm not sure what it is, but the sense of ambiguity from the slur of songs about varying subjects gives it an underlying sense that they really didn't know what the $@!& they were doing when they made this album. (which is probably correct, bands in their infant stages, come on...) But at the same time, it gives the album, and the budding genre of punk rock (at the time) a sense of childlike innocence that I don't get from any other album, in fact probably won't. That being said, I still don't know what I feel about this album. It's just raw and funky and out there. It's kind of like it doesn't really have any place being categorized with other punk albums.

I do know that it's a good album, it's just hard to identify with the songs on a personal level I guess.

I'm having difficulty putting things into words, so this probably makes no sense at all, and all of this bullshit has probably been said in some way shape or form, but hell, I feel like repeating it.

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Post subject: Re: Ramones (1976)
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:30 pm
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You're completely over analysing it. It's not some prog rock nonsense. It has no message, it has no emotional current running through. Just the same as every other Ramones album. In fact the albums that have producers of note (Pleasant Dreams/Graham Gouldman and End Of The Century/Phil Spector) are considered their worst because of the producers trying to exert their will on the band.
It's all simply very fast rock n roll, beach boys on speed. Cretinous, simplistic, fun that requires no thought at all. Don't look for messages and hidden meanings in their stuff. You'll be sorely disappointed.

Whole first album recorded and released for $6000, as an aside. Ridiculously cheap even then.

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Post subject: Re: Ramones (1976)
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:39 pm
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I know, it has nothing, and that's what confuses the hell out of me.

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Post subject: Re: Ramones (1976)
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:51 pm
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Non of the Ramones albums have a message. Only few of the songs do.

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:55 pm
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I don't know if this going to help you or confuse even more but since when did Punk have to have meaning? Isn't all about the rebellious side of youth and not giving a $#!_. Bottom line, I don't think The Ramones gave a rats $@! about whether their music was inspiring or up lifting. They were riding the wave and loving every minute of it. :D

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Post subject: Re: Ramones (1976)
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:58 pm
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Buxom wrote:
It's just raw and funky and out there. It's kind of like it doesn't really have any place being categorized with other.


This may very well be the definition of punk.... :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Ramones (1976)
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:03 pm
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nikininja wrote:
Non of the Ramones albums have a message. Only few of the songs do.


That's weird, because I feel a night and day difference between Ramones and Leave Home.

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:10 pm
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Thats entirely your own thing, trust me on that.

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Post subject: Re: Ramones (1976)
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:12 pm
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nikininja wrote:
Thats entirely your own thing, trust me on that.


Leave Home is a defining sound of my summer.

It's the kind album you throw on to $@!& in the back seat. Shock treatment? Yes, please. :wink:

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:36 pm
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Always this for me



And this


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My favorite live performance of theirs.

Also, I've seen the drum kit from the second vid in person. It's at GC in Manhattan.

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Post subject: Re: Ramones (1976)
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:48 pm
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Some funky $@!& just happened.

Somehow the same post happened 3 or 4 times.

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Trying to find meaning to a ramones album is funny to me. To is its all about the energy and that it


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