I see that this seems to be the only Ramones album that isn’t easily available at the moment but by strange coincidence it happens to be my favourite.
Now, I’m not saying it’s the best Ramones album by a long shot but for me it has a special place as it was the first Ramones album that I got when it was newly released.
I remember watching a Saturday morning music video show – the fact I was up watching TV on a Saturday morning shows how young I was at the time – called The Chart Show, which used to have a rock section showing mainly heavy metal videos, when on came the video for I Wanna Live.
I couldn’t believe it and was totally blown away by the track – it remains my favourite Ramones song to this day. A lot of the video is live footage from shows – at this point I hadn’t ever been to a gig. It all looked really exciting to me.
I finally got to see The Ramones a couple of years later on their Brain Drain tour and they still remain one of the best live acts I’ve ever seen.
01. I Wanna Live
02. Bop ‘Til You Drop
03. Garden Of Serenity
04. Weasel Face
05. Go Lil’ Camaro Go
06. I Know Better Now
07. Death Of Me
08. I Lost My Mind
09. A Real Cool Time
10. I’m Not Jesus
11. Bye Bye Baby
12. Worm Man
July 23, 2009 at 3:17 am |
A solid effort to be sure but like you say far from their best. I saw them for the first time in ‘88 and again during ‘89 and they remain one of the best live bands I ever saw. Thankfully, Dallas was pretty dead at night and I was able to see them in a theatre that only held a few hundred people. Good days. . .
October 25, 2009 at 11:14 pm |
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