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This is 2022. box with the Ramones 80’s albums on vinyl. In this 2nd part you have: HALFWAY TO SANITY / BRAIN DRAIN / STILL MORE STUFF – RARITIES 1981-1989. Enjoy!
[Special thanks to my friend JP Stooges for this superfine vinyl rips & covers scans]
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This is 2022. box with the Ramones 80’s albums on vinyl. I know you know but hey… This stuff is a MUST!
In this 1st part you have: PLEASANT DREAMS / SUBTERRANEAN JUNGLE / TOO TOUGH TO DIE / ANIMAL BOY
[Special thanks to my friend JP Stooges for this superfine vinyl rips]
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One of my favorite songs from “Road To Ruin” Lp.
Check out how Johnny takes another pick at 0:52 , like a gunslinger 🙂
Another pair of my favorite Ramones slabs. “Pleasant Dreams” their 6th studio album produced by Graham Gouldman [member of 10CC, man who wrote “For Your Love”, “Heart Full Of Soul” and “Evil Hearted You” for The Yardbirds] is a 60’s influenced power pop gem with handfull of classics as ”We Want The Airwaves”, ”All’s Quiet On The Eastern Front”, ”The KKK Took My Baby Away”, ”Don’t Go”, ”You Sound Like You’re Sick”, ”She’s A Sensation”, ”7-11”, ”Sitting In My Room”… From my point of view one of their best, better than ”End Of The Centery”. On ”Subterranean Jungle” their 7th Lp, Ramones turned back to their punk rock roots and sound from “Rocket To Russia” era. Interesting is that on this album Walter Lure played most of guitars so the style on some tunes as ‘‘Somebody Like Me” or ”Time Bomb” reminds on The Heartbreakers. Album feature fine covers of ”Little Bit O’ Soul” [The Music Explosion], ”Time Has Come Today” [The Chambers Brothers] and ”I Need Your Love”[The Boyfriends], plus killer originals as “Outsider”, ”Somebody Like Me”, “Psycho Therapy”, “Time Bomb”, “Everytime I Eat Vegetables…”. Vinyl rips by Mr.Eliminator, in <360> binaural Surfadelic sound!
A re-post of first two albums ripped from original vinyl [1st] and real cool UK ’87 reissue of ”Leave Home” on Mau Mau Records [division of Demon Records]. Well, I’ve recently found a rip of 180gr Rhino reissue from 2011. and it sounds pretty lame and shitty, so I decided to post it with my old rip for you to compare. And remember: 180g DOESN’T MEAN GOOD SOUND QUALITY ! Also, you can compare difference between ”It’s Alive” [80s German reissue] and [Audio Fidelity] 2009. reissue. I think it’s better option to go for some 80’s reissues than for nowadays hipsters vinyl. You must choose brothers and sisters, you must choose. And yeah, by the way ”Leave Home” is on the Top10 list of my alltime favorite rock’n’roll records, next to New York Dolls, Stooges, Sonics, MC5, T.Rex, Flamin’ Groovies, The Clash etc… Supercool <360> Vinyl rip by Surfadelic. Check it out!
”The Ramones never shied away from a good cover tune, and their tastes were generally confined to ’60s radio pop, girl group, surf, and a touch of psychedelic garage rock. They even went so far as to record an entire album of covers with 1993’s lighthearted Acid Eaters, a set of covers that leaned heavily on masters of psychedelic garage like Love, the Seeds, and the Troggs as well as early-’60s surf classics from the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean. The Ramones: Heard Them Here First is an easy mark, collecting the original versions later recorded by a band whose members wore their influences proudly on their sleeves and were drawn more to genre-defining classics than obscure rarities. The collection is thorough, moving in chronological order from Chris Montez’s “Let’s Dance” (covered on the Ramones’ 1976 debut album) through to Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” and the Stooges’ “1969” as covered by Joey Ramone on his posthumous 2002 album, Don’t Worry About Me. Ace did their homework, too, because not even a cover of 1910 Fruitgum Company’s goofy bubblegum hit “Indian Giver” from a late-’80s 12″ B-side was lost in the shuffle. The only covers that aren’t from the golden age of late-’50s and 1960s teen pop and surf are Motörhead’s tribute to the band “R.A.M.O.N.E.S.” and Tom Waits’ wistful Peter Pan tale “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” from his 1992 masterpiece, Bone Machine. There’s nothing revelatory about the collection, but these classic tracks make sense together as much as they did when covered in a sped-up punked-out fashion by the Ramones, who were a classic band in their own right.” [Fred Thomas]
24 trax comp with originals covered by Ramones + 9 more trax added by Surfadelic for complete overview of bros’ 60’s & 70’s r’n’r favs. Take It As It Comes, Dig!!!
Huh! Can you believe it’s almost 30 years since this lp was out? ”Time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for me” said some bigmouth poet. Anyways, ’88/89. were pretty cool years for r’n’r – Iggy’s comback with “instinct”, Bowie too with Tin Machine, Keith Richards cool solo slab “Talk is Cheap”, Lou Reed’s ”New York”, then there were underground & alternative rock forces as Pixies with ”Doolittle, Primal Scream, The Jesus & Mary Chain ”Automatic”, The Godfathers ”More Songs About Love & Hate”… In the summer of ’89 I was on trip in Italy where I bought two great records – comeback lp for The Cramps “Stay Sick” and this Ramones 11th studio album. Over the years, I’ve changed my opinion on this record several times and now think it’s a cool one. On ”Brain Drain” [the last lp with Dee Dee] Ramones continued with harder, Motorhead kinda rockin’ style, starting out with the great opener ”I Believe In Miracles” [well I do, alright!] and other favs as killer ”Zero Zero UFO”, ”Don’t Bust My Chops”, fine cover of Freddy Cannon’s ”Palisades Park”. On side B you got ”Pet Sematary” which became one of Ramones biggest hits, and solid tunes like ”Can’t Get You Outta My Mind”, ”Come Back, Baby” and ”Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)”. There are couple of tunes heavily influenced by Motorhead ”Learn To Listen” and ‘‘Ignorance Is Bliss”. Altogether, It’s a pretty solid slab, they don’t make it like that anymore! And remember, Ramones don’t have a lame album. Don’t Bust My Chops ‘n’ Dig!!!
”This amphetamine-paced double-LP served as a Ramones career retrospective, smack at their peak, and shows the Queens crew almost stumbling across hardcore around the same time California was inventing it. Over four nights in 1977 at London’s Rainbow Theater, the punk pioneers blasted through 28 songs from their first three albums. (Thanks to their tidily short length, they squeezed in nearly all of ’em.) The final LP version came mostly from the last night, charged with an energy so electric that fans are said to have ripped seats from the floor and thrown them at the stage in enthusiasm. It’s no surprise, as the entire record pulses with American punk’s promise, a spittle-spewing Joey Ramone barely pausing between “Pinhead,” “Do You Wanna Dance?” and “Chain Saw.” He even barely pauses long enough to get out all the lyrics, the band buzzing away behind him like they’re in a machine shop. During post-production, the speed was something with which even the band itself struggled to keep up. In his book, Hey Ho, Let’s Go: The Story of the Ramones, Everett True writes that Dee Dee needed extra fuel to record bass overdubs: an extra-heavy helping of black coffee.” Arielle Castillo
Ahh, sweet memories of teenage years. This was the first R@M0#E$ lp I’ve bought in ’84. while in highschool. It was a time when I was headbanging to the beat of The Clash, The Stranglers, Buzzcocks, Undertones, Blondie, Pistols, Dead Kennedys … It’s a West German issue that was most easier to find in Europe back then. I know you’re over stuffed with R@M0#E$ stuff but then again… they are my no.1 favorite band and this is one of the best live rock lps and Surfadelic vinyl rip is far superior to CD version you can find out there. So… 1-2-3-4 … Dig!!!
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