Hi, was wondering if anyone could help. I am looking for the Ramones, I don't know what you want to call them, maybe more mature songs. The sloppy proto punk ones never really did it for me(Rock & Roll high school, animal boy etc.) maybe if I had gotten in to them at an earlier age? I am looking for the ones, off any album, like Brain is hanging upside down and Howling at the moon, truly some of the best songs ever in my opinion. Do they have others like these? The ones with a bit more going on, maybe a bit more polish, than the 3 chord numbers. Please no one take offence at this, the simple songs are good just not quite my thing. Thanks very much.
― aophaug, Friday, 22 February 2008 11:45 (eighteen years ago)
Well, um you could
1) pick any of the albums that have those songs on them, or
2) get "weird tales of the ramones" 4 disc set, ignore disc 1 (!) (ahem..), and try out the stuff on discs 2 and 3 (disc 4 is a DVD, mostly latter stuff), pick tracks you like and get the albums that they are from.
Hey ho.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 February 2008 11:56 (eighteen years ago)
In other words, you're looking for the Ramones attempting to not be the Ramones. You'd probably enjoy "Poison Heart" and/or "I Want To Live."
But, really, if you can't enjoy their trademark fare, what's the point?
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 22 February 2008 13:57 (eighteen years ago)
See also "Don't Come Close" and "Needles & Pins" (the latter of which they did not write). And also several tracks on Subterrainian Jungle like their cover of "Time Has Come Today".
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 22 February 2008 13:58 (eighteen years ago)
I suppose "End of the Century" would be a safe bet.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 February 2008 14:10 (eighteen years ago)
pet sematary
― blunt, Friday, 22 February 2008 14:33 (eighteen years ago)
xpost except they don't like Rock'n'Roll High School, so maybe not
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 February 2008 15:07 (eighteen years ago)
(ssh!)
― Mark G, Friday, 22 February 2008 15:08 (eighteen years ago)
"Something to Believe In" is a close cousin to "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" and it's a good one.
Hands Across Your Face! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=152073945915720309
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 23 February 2008 04:38 (eighteen years ago)
The best late-era radio-gambit Ramones record is Too Tough To Die (1984). Totally glossy and weird, almost metal, but kind of awesome. Could have soundtracked any number of pulpy 80s horror movies put out by a major studio but filmed with no budget. "Howling At The Moon" is on that one. Totally awes.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 23 February 2008 05:01 (eighteen years ago)
whiney otm. if you like that get animal boy too, it's underrated, kinda glossy (jean beauvoir where are you now?), and has "something to believe in," "bonzo" (by its slightly redacted title) and "somebody put something in my drink," richie's great contribution to the band.
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 23 February 2008 07:11 (eighteen years ago)
animal boy also has "crummy stuff." the chorus goes "crummy crummy crummy crummy crummy crummy crummy crummy crummy crummy crummy crummy stuff" (repeat).
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 23 February 2008 07:13 (eighteen years ago)
(oops i left out a crummy)
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 23 February 2008 07:14 (eighteen years ago)
look for "do you believe in rock n roll radio", with the phi spector production
― Zeno, Saturday, 23 February 2008 15:09 (eighteen years ago)