RAMONES "RAMONES" 1976 SIRE VG/VG 1st PRESS.MISPELT SONG TITLES SIDE "A" LABEL

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ARTISTS: RAMONES

TITLE: “RAMONES”

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

Blitzkrieg Bop

2:12

A2

Beat On The Brat

2:30

A3

Judy Is A Punk

1:30

A4

I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

2:24

A5

Chain Saw

1:55

A6

Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue

1:34

A7

I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement

2:35

B1

Loudmouth

2:14

B2

Havana Affair

2:00

B3

Listen To My Heart

1:56

B4

53rd & 3rd

2:19

B5

Let's Dance

1:51

B6

I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You

1:43

B7

Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World

2:09

Companies, etc.

• Marketed By – ABC Records, Inc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sire Records, Inc.

• Copyright (c) – Sire Records, Inc.

• Published By – Taco Tunes

• Published By – Bleu Disque Music Co., Inc.

• Published By – Warner-Tamerlane Publishing

• Mastered At – Sterling Sound

• Recorded At – Plaza Sound Studios

• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute

Credits

• Bass – DeeDee Ramone*

• Drums – Tommy Ramone

• Engineer – Rob Freeman

• Engineer [Assistant] – Don Hunerburg*

• Guitar – Johnny Ramone

• Lead Vocals – Joey Ramone

• Management – Danny Fields

• Mastered By – Greg Calbi

• Photography By [Back Cover] – Arturo Vega

• Photography By [Front Cover] – Roberta Bayley

• Producer – Craig Leon

• Producer [Associate] – T. Erdelyi*

• Written-By – The Ramones* (tracks: A1 to B4, B6, B7)

Notes

Marketed by ABC Records, Inc.
Published by Taco Tunes/Bleu Disque Music Co. Inc. (ASCAP),
except B5 published by Warner Tamberlane Publishing (BMI).
Recorded at Plaza Sound, Radio City Music Hall, New York.
Mastered at Sterling Sound.

Misspellings on label:
A1: Blitzkreig
A2: Beat Is On The Brat

Reissued in 2001 on 180 gram vinyl under same cat#.: SASD-7520

Printed inner sleeve with lyrics.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched / Stamped, Variant 1): T1 SASD 7520 A RE-1 2 STERLING D 7

• Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched / Stamped, Variant 1): T1 SASD 7520 -B-RE-1-2 STERLING B6

• Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched / Stamped, Variant 2): T1 SASD 7520 A RE-1 2 STERLING

• Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched / Stamped, Variant 2): T1 SASD 7520 -B-RE-1-1 STERLING
  

LABEL: SIRE RECORDS

CAT. #: SASD-7520

YEAR: 1976

RECORD CONDITION:THE RECORD IS IN VG/VG- CONDITION. THIS HAS BEEN PLAYED, THERE IS LIGHT VISIBLE WEAR, A FEW LINES, LIGHT PAPER SCUFFING, MAINLY ON THE EDGES, THE “B” SIDE HAS A COUPLE FINGER SMUDGES. AUDIO WISE THERE'S SURFACE NOISE, MAINLY ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES, SOME LIGHT CLICKING,POPPING, THE SONGS SOUND VERY STRONG, NO SKIPS OR POPS, CLICKS THAT I HEARD, THERE IS LIGHT SURFACE NOISE BETWEEN THE TRACKS. THE “B” SIDE HAS A FEW MORE MARKS THAN THE “A”.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG/VG+ CONDITION. STRAIGHT EDGES, NO WRITING, TEARS, WRINKLES OR SEAM SPLITS, ETC.ETC...THERE'S LIGHT CORNER DING, UPPER LEFT CORNER (SEE PHOTO), THE RIGHT UPPER CORNER HAS A TINY SMUDGE FROM OLD PRICE STICKER, THE LOWER LEFT CORNER HAS A LIGHT “WRINKLE”/CREASE, BACK OF THE JACKET VERY VERY LIGHT RING WEAR TOP CENTER (SEE PHOTO).

MORE INFO: I TRY AND MATCH WHAT I AM SELLING WITH DISCOGS LISTINGS. THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. COMES IN THE ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE W/LYRICS.(SEE PHOTO'S A COUPLE OF THE EDGES HAVE APPROX. 3” SEAM SPLITS IN THE MIDDLE. MATRIX # T 1 SASD 7520 A-RE-1-2 STERLING. THIS IS THE VERSION WITH THE MISPRINT OF THE SONG TITLES ON SIDE “A”, BLITZKRIEG IS SPELLED BLITZKREIG, AND SONG TITLE 2 IS LABELED AS “BEAT IS ON THE BRAT” INSTEAD OF “BEAT ON THE BRAT”.

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The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. They are often cited as the first true punk rock group.Despite achieving only limited commercial success initially, the band was highly influential in the United States and the United Kingdom.

All of the band members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname "Ramone", although none of them were biologically related; they were inspired by Paul McCartney of The Beatles, who would check into hotels as "Paul Ramon". They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years. In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played a farewell concert and disbanded. By 2014, all four of the band's original members had died – lead singer Joey Ramone (1951–2001), bassist Dee Dee Ramone (1951–2002), guitarist Johnny Ramone (1948–2004) and drummer Tommy Ramone (1949–2014)The remaining surviving members of the Ramones – bassist C. J. Ramone and drummers Marky Ramone, Richie Ramone and Elvis Ramone – are still active as musicians.

Recognition of the band's importance built over the years, and they are now mentioned in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as number 26 in the Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time] and number 17 in VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".In 2002, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin, trailing only the Beatles. On March 18, 2002, the original four members and Tommy's replacement on drums, Marky Ramone, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on their first year of eligibility, though Joey had died by then. In 2011, the group was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Ramones recorded their debut album, Ramones, in February 1976. Of the fourteen songs on the album, the longest, "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", barely surpassed two and a half minutes. While the songwriting credits were shared by the entire band, Dee Dee was the primary writer.The Ramones album was produced by Sire's Craig Leon, with Tommy as associate producer, on an extremely low budget of about $6,400 and released in April.The now iconic front cover photograph of the band was taken by Roberta Bayley, a photographer for Punk magazine.Punk, which was largely responsible for codifying the term for the scene emerging around CBGB, ran a cover story on the Ramones in its third issue, the same month as the record's release.

The Ramones' debut LP was greeted by rock critics with glowing reviews. The Village Voice's Robert Christgau wrote, "I love this record—love it—even though I know these boys flirt with images of brutality (Nazi especially) ... For me, it blows everything else off the radio".[n Rolling Stone, Paul Nelson described it as "constructed almost entirely of rhythm tracks of an exhilarating intensity rock & roll has not experienced since its earliest days." Characterizing the band as "authentic American primitives whose work has to be heard to be understood", he declared, "It is time popular music followed the other arts in honoring its primitives." Newsday's Wayne Robbins simply anointed the Ramones as "the best young rock 'n' roll band in the known universe."

Despite Sire's high hopes for it,Ramones was not a commercial success, reaching only number 111 on the Billboard album chart.The two singles issued from the album, "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", failed to chart. At the band's first major performance outside of New York, a June date in Youngstown, Ohio, members of Cleveland punk legends Frankenstein aka the Dead Boys were present and struck up a friendship with the band.It wasn't until they made a brief tour of England that they began to see the fruits of their labor; a performance at the Roundhouse in London on July 4, 1976, second-billed to the Flamin' Groovies, organized by Linda Stein, was a resounding success. T-Rex leader Marc Bolan was in attendance at the Roundhouse show and was invited on stage. Their Roundhouse appearance and a club date the following night—where the band met members of the Sex Pistols and the Clash—helped galvanize the burgeoning UK punk rock scene.] The Flamin' Groovies/Ramones double bill was successfully reprised at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles the following month, fueling the punk scene there as well. The Ramones were becoming an increasingly popular live act—a Toronto performance in September energized yet another growing punk scene

Ramones is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Ramones, released on April 23, 1976 by Sire Records. After Hit Parader editor Lisa Robinson saw the band at a gig in New York City, she wrote about them in an article and contacted Danny Fields, insisting that he be their manager. Fields agreed and convinced Craig Leon to produce Ramones, and the band recorded a demo for prospective record labels. Leon persuaded Sire president Seymour Stein to listen to the band perform, and he later offered the band a recording contract. The Ramones began recording in January 1976, needing only seven days and $6,400 to record the album. They used similar sound-output techniques[clarification needed] to those of the Beatles and used advanced production methods by Leon.

The album cover, photographed by Punk magazine's Roberta Bayley, features the four members leaning against a brick wall in New York City. The record company paid only $125 for the front photo, which has since become one of the most imitated album covers of all time. The back cover depicts an eagle belt buckle along with the album's liner notes. After its release, Ramones was promoted with two singles, which failed to chart. The Ramones also began touring to help sell records; these tour dates were mostly based in the United States, though two were booked in Britain.

Violence, drug use, relationship issues, humor, and Nazism were prominent in the album's lyrics. The album opens with "Blitzkrieg Bop", which is among the band's most recognized songs. Most of the album's tracks are uptempo, with many songs measuring at well over 160 beats per minute. The songs are also rather short; at two-and-a-half minutes, "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement" is the album's longest track. Ramones contains a cover of the Chris Montez song "Let's Dance".

Ramones peaked at number 111 on the US Billboard 200 and was unsuccessful commercially, though it received glowing reviews from critics. Many later deemed it a highly influential record, and it has since received many accolades, such as the top spot on Spin magazine's list of the "50 Most Essential Punk Records". Ramones is considered an influential punk album in the US and UK, and had a significant impact on other genres of rock music, such as grunge and heavy metal. The album was ranked at number 33 in Rolling Stone's 2012 list of the The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2014.

Background

The 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.[4] In early 1975, Lisa Robinson, an editor of Hit Parader and Rock Scene, saw the fledgling Ramones performing at CBGB and subsequently wrote about the band in several magazine issues. The group's vocalist Joey Ramone related that "Lisa came down to see us, she was blown away by us. She said that we changed her life; she started writing about us in Rock Scene, and then Lenny Kaye would write about us and we started getting more press like The Village Voice. Word was getting out, and people starting coming down."Convinced that the band needed a recording contract, Robinson contacted Danny Fields, former manager of the Stooges, and argued that he needed to manage the band. Fields agreed because the band "had everything [he] ever liked," and became the manager in November 1975.

On September 19, 1975, the Ramones recorded a demo at 914 Sound Studios, which was produced by Marty Thau. Featuring the songs "Judy Is a Punk" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", the band used the demo to showcase their style to prospective labels. Producer Craig Leon, who had seen the Ramones perform in the summer of 1975, brought the demo to the attention of Sire Records' president Seymour Stein. After being persuaded by Craig Leon and his ex-wife Linda Stein, the Ramones auditioned at Sire and were offered a contract, although the label had previously signed only European progressive rock bands.Drummer Tommy Ramone recalled: "Craig Leon is the one who got us signed, single handed. He brought down the vice president and all these people—he's the only hip one in the company. He risked his career to get us on the label."The label offered to release "You're Gonna Kill That Girl" as a single, but the band declined, insisting on recording an entire album. Sire accepted their request and agreed to release a studio album instead.

Legacy and influence

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 pop] grunge, post-punk,and most notably, punk rock. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said of their influence on rock in general:

Despite the lack of popularity in its era, the importance of the album for the development of punk rock music was incredible, influencing many of the most well-known names in punk rock, including The Damned, the Clash, Black Flag, Misfits, and Green Day. Billie Joe Armstrong, singer for Green Day, explained his reasoning for listening to the band: "they had songs that just stuck in your head, just like a hammer they banged right into your brain." The album also had a great impact on the English punk scene as well, with the bassist for Generation X, Tony James, saying that the album caused English bands to change their style. "When their album came out," commented James, "all the English groups tripled speed overnight. Two-minute-long songs, very fast." In another interview, James stated that "Everybody went up three gears the day they got that first Ramones album. Punk rock—that rama-lama super fast stuff—is totally down to the Ramones. Bands were just playing in an MC5 groove until then."In 1999, Classic Albums by Collins GEM recognized Ramones as the start of English punk rock and called it the fastest and hardest music that could possibly be concocted, stating: "The songs within were a short, sharp exercise in vicious speed-thrash, driven by ferocious guitars and yet halting in an instant. It was the simple pop dream taken to its minimalist extreme." In 2012 the album was preserved by the National Recording Registry, deeming it "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant."

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