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>Ramones 1976 A After each take, the engineers would ask if I wanted to hear it back. I’d ask them how it sounded. “It sounded good.” So I just said, “Okay, let’s keep going.”
>Leave Home 1977 A Some of these we couldn’t have done on the first album. But we were better players, faster and more skilled at this point. You could hear our development.
>Rocket to Russia 1977 A+ This was the best Ramones album—one great song after another. It has just the right balance of slow songs, ballads, and rockers.
>Road to Ruin 1978 A The production on this is the best of all of them. Joey came to rehearsal with “I Wanna Be Sedated” and played it for us on his one-string guitar.
>End of the Century 1980 B Nothing is bad on this record, and I’d like to hear it with a different production. It was the first time we had to write an entire album from scratch.
>Pleasant Dreams 1981 B- Nobody in the band was speaking, and I didn’t write any songs with Dee Dee, so it has no real punk songs on it. It’s too light.
>Subterranean Jungle 1983 B We did three covers, but I was happy with the guitar sound. I was watching the Brewers-Cardinals World Series when we were recording it.
>Too Tough to Die 1984 A- All of a sudden, we all got along and stopped worrying about making a hit record. This was our best record of the eighties.
>Animal Boy 1986 B- This is the album with the song about Reagan’s visit to Germany, but I wouldn’t let them put it out with the original title, “Bonzo Goes to Bitburg.”
>Halfway to Sanity 1987 B- The tracks on this one aren’t the best. Dee Dee and I wrote “Weasel Face” about a guy who had a real weasel face.
>Brain Drain 1989 C One of my least favorite albums; there were too many Joey songs on it, which always took more time.
>Mondo Bizarro 1992 C The songs are the weak spot on this album. Joey wrote a song about Tipper Gore, and then he goes and votes for Clinton.
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Imagine if Johnny learned to play arpegios or anything more complex than power chords.
But he was a genius writting music with what he knew.
I unironically love Acid Eaters
>>127096639 (OP)I rarely ever listen to the first four albums since It's Alive is basically a best of with more energetic performances (only a couple of songs sound worse that the studio versions). Other than that End of the Century and Pleasant Dreams are my favorites.
>>127096639 (OP)>>Mondo Bizarro 1992 C The songs are the weak spot on this album. Joey wrote a song about Tipper Gore, and then he goes and votes for Clinton.kek
I think Danzig's Mother was inspired by her too. All that censorship/Parental Advisory stuff they were up to then.
>>127096639 (OP)Sincere thanks for sharing this, OP. I learned things, including that Johnny is apparently based.
Funny thing is, Tipper Gore was right. Wrong target though - rap is what destroyed American youth and culture, not hard rock.
>>127097169Gangsta rap didn't take off until after the PMRC drama had settled down. There was plenty of establishment backlash for that, but sex and satan were always the more popular fixation for moralfags.
>>127097169>>1270973052livecrew was in her crosshairs too... but there was an odd focus on rock.
>>127097169>>127097315Oh no there was a lot of criticism of rap in the 80s-90s-00s especially by black leaders like Jesse Jackson and Delores Tucker. It was only since the 2010s that you weren't allowed to speak ill of rap.
>Dee Dee and I wrote “Weasel Face” about a guy who had a real weasel face
Kek
>>127096882Johnny was very cost minded from what i gathered. If he couldnt get a part down in 5 minutes, he let Daniel Rey or someone else play it, because it didn't matter in his view
>>127097169She could be right on a personal level, but parents should've done that job themselves. Not bring congress and laws into it and put the burden on artists and adult listeners.
>>127097675they tried that in the 50s too with the Smathers bill when they wanted to ban non-croonershit from the airwaves
>>127097675The group and their supporters were very coy about what they actually wanted accomplished, so they could have plausible deniability about any censorship ideas. That was the crux of Zappa's testimony at the time. They would weasel around the issue of the government "doing something" but if you said the C-word they'd call you hysterical.
So which 3 records should I listen to? I only know the first. Rockets is the best he said?
I MET HER AT THE BURGER KING
WE FELL IN LOVE BY THE SODA MACHINE
TODAY YOUR LOVE
TOMORROW THE WORLD
TODAY YOUR LOVE
TOMORROW THE WORLD
>>127099449Yes, Rocket is the best. The first four albums are all essential. You can listen to them all back to back in about the time it would take you to listen to the Beatles’ White Album once.
>>127099821I'm a storm trooper in a stupor yes I am
>Joey wrote a song about Tipper Gore, and then he goes and votes for Clinton
>>127096870>All that censorship/Parental Advisory stuff they were up to then.with hindsight, the reaction of some rock stars to that whole thing was hysterical and unrealistic. Their albums still were made and sold, they just had a sticker on them denoting foul language or adult themes, same as films did. But people like Dee Snyder, Jello Biafra (etc) got on their soapboxes and acted like it was the end of the world.
>>127104143>whole thing was hysterical and unrealisticyou're describing the tactics of the PMRC.
>>127104143The sticker we ended up getting was the moderate compromise.
>>127103794Al was widely derided by 80s liberals as a slimy cuck for propping up his wife like that, then 15 years later they were all simping for him for president.
>>127104596>>127104652adults thinking they can sell whatever kind of product they like to minors without any kind of regulation at all is a very arrogant and entitled attitude. No other industry at the time had such freedom. There was never any realistic chance of "rock music being banned" or whatever other extreme scenario some imagined. Behind the performers' faux-artistic concerns was a fear that regulation might eat into their profits.
>>127104735It's not selling candy laced with lead.
It's something parents should be stopping.
>>127104801...and therefore having parental guidance labels on the product (similar to films) is reasonable. Performers screeching about "nazi book burnings" and acting like they have some god-given right to sell absolutely anything at all in any format to other people's kids was always ridiculous, and hasn't aged well.
>>127104875The end result is a decent enough compromise, I guess. No one's happy. Probably a good sign. But it was building up to be worse than that.
>>127104882>But it was building up to be worse than that.Not really. The PMRC was consistent in advocating the labeling system. The imaginations of Zappa, Snyder, Biafra et al bore little resemblance to reality. Tipper Gore never called for rock music to be banned.
>>127096639 (OP)Reading this makes me like my life so much more.
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Why did this place get so lame
>>127104914why is it conservatives advocate libertarian hands-off, small government until it comes to regulating what blacks or whites expressing non-conservative viewpoints say and then it's THE SKY IS FALLING SOMETHING MUST BE DONE THINK OF THE CHILDREEEEEEN THEIR BRAINWASHING THE FUCKING KIDS
they just want everyone to be the same and can't handle that other people don't want to be like them.
>>127104143I think they were afraid that content warning labels would mean the record labels would refuse any 'adult' stuff, but in actuality the opposite happened and it just gave edgy music a huge marketing boost saying "Hey kids, buy me I probably kick ass."
>>127099449>Self-titled debut>Rocket to Russia>Road to RuinIf you want more I highly recommend "Too Tough to Die" and "Leave Home" as well. Though the majority of their discography is good. Except for maybe 'Brain Drain.'
>>127107868Eh the storm trooper line is better than the "I'm a Nazi, baby, yes a Nazi, yes I am"
The internal rhyme is quite nice.
>>127096705me too. when I was in high school through one of those CD clubs I got Acid Eaters, Mondo Bizarro and Adios Amigos. I listened to the shit out late era ramones
>>127096674unironically, he was intimidated that his drummers knew more about chords than him
>>127106677is that the one he stole from joey?
Mondo Bizarro and Brain drain were always my favourite ones, road to ruin is great too, rocket to russia is their second best in the seventies, their debut record is G.O.A.T
>>127104914The popular solution being floated at the time was not just labeling but rating, like movies. The artists made the reasonable argument that because music is a different artform from cinema with different creative parameters, usually being a more personal and subjective expression of the musician, it would make classifying recordings on content alone just as subjective and convoluted a process. What Zappa specifically was talking about was the logistical nightmare of setting all that up on a central level or leaving it up to the states, implying that the the PMRC and their supporters lacked a consistent or practical vision, which they objectively didn't. In his case it was more a matter of calling out the political theater and media frenzy of it.
>>127096639 (OP)>This is the album with the song about Reagan’s visit to Germany, but I wouldn’t let them put it out with the original title, “Bonzo Goes to Bitburg.”Uh, isn't that the name of the song?
