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Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, August 1976
"I don't wanna walk around with youI don't wanna walk around with youI don't wanna walk around with youSo why you wanna walk around with ...
The Ramones: Rock'n'Roll High School (Sire Import) ****
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, July 1979
THE ERA of the compilation is upon us, and this soundtrack album of smarties and arties is another rapid fire job, featuring the next best ...
End of the ‘70s: the Ramones Get Spectorized
Book Excerpt by Everett True, Omnibus Books, Fall 2002
An extract from Hey Ho Let’s Go – The Story of The Ramones by Everett True, published by Omnibus Press in 2002. (344pp, currently available ...
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Interview by Larry Jaffee, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1985
Da Brudda gives us his Desert Island Discs and raps about record labels, producers and the musically and politically sterile 1980s.
File format: mp3; file size: 52.2mb, interview length: 57' 02" sound quality: ***
The Ramones in London, part 1 (1985)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, February 1985
Joey and Dee Dee talk about life for da brudders is the mid-'80s, Hardcore, chart success (or not), and much more.
File format: mp3; File size: 30.6 mb Interview length: 44 minutes 36 seconds, sound quality: ***
The Ramones in London, part 2 (1985)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, February 1985
Joey and Dee Dee talk about drugs, playing fast, New York City, and where they come from musically.
File format: mp3; File size: 12.5 mb Interview length: 18 minutes 16 seconds, sound quality: ***
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Know Your New York Bands: The Ramones
Interview by Alan Betrock, Soho Weekly News, May 1975
1-2-3-4! The Ramones stride on stage, plug in their guitars, and take off. The next 45 minutes are a total energy blast. ...
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1975
"BEAT ON the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat..." ...
Interview by Mary Harron, Punk, January 1976
RIGHT NOW I AM SITTING BY THE STAGE where Joey Ramone has wrapped his tall languorous body and his long long hands around the microphone ...
Report by Wayne Robins, Newsday, January 1976
IF YOU thought Jefferson Airplane was a weird name, let some of these drop off your tongue. Talking Heads. Tuff Darts. Ramones. Planets. Heartbreakers. Shirts. ...
New York: Plug in to the Nerve-ends of the Naked City
Report by Nick Kent, NME, March 1976
In downtown Manhattan the rock 'n' roll war rages on as potential crown princes of Punkdom battle for recognition.. NICK KENT interprets the action ...
The Ramones: Ramones (Sire — Import)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, May 1976
A WEEK back, if you'd asked me nicely, I'd have dogmatically opined that Ramones – SASD 7520 – was absolutely the most grievous hot rock ...
The Ramones: Ramones (Sire Import)
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1976
PHEW, WHAT A scorcher! From the opening call to action of 'Blitzkrieg Bop' to the last strung-out powerchord of 'Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World', ...
Flamin' Groovies/The Ramones/The Stranglers: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Max Bell, NME, July 1976
MAYBE IT WAS no accident that the hottest, steamiest, dirtiest night of the year was reserved for July 4. It's not every day that we ...
The Ramones: 'Waitin' for World War III' Blues
Interview by Max Bell, NME, July 1976
JOEY RAMONE is wandering around the empty Roundhouse, looking vacant and clutching a brand new camera under his arm like a teddy bear substitute. A ...
Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, August 1976
DA RAMONES: NO MERCYBEATS ...
Are the Ramones, or Is the Ramone?
Interview by Lisa Jane Persky, New York Rocker, September 1976
PUNK IS A word described in many dictionaries as that which is used to light fireworks; and in this case it is. Eager to pin ...
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1977
Well, we got through to the second issue despite opposition from the hippies. Anyway, here we are...and it's about time we went Over The Top ...
The Ramones: Leave Home (Sire)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1977
ROCK CRITIC or not, your reviewer resides in the Midwest, and doesn't make it up to Noo Yawk any too often (last such trek occurring ...
Notes on Minimalism (or Learning To Live With The Ramones)
Essay by Mick Farren, NME, May 1977
THERE'S BEEN A LOT of loose talk, and it has got to stop. Ever since The Ramones blundered into the blinding spotlight of international rock ...
The Ramones: Gabba Gabba Hey In The UK
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, May 1977
The Ramones/Talking Heads: Eric's, Liverpool ...
The Ramones: An Aylesbury Affair
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, June 1977
IT'S BEEN about a year since The Ramones made their first hit-and-run visit to England for a pair of storming gigs in London. ...
The Ramones: So The New Wave Have Scruples Too
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, June 1977
JOHNNY RAMONE is quite definitely pissed off. ...
The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Saints: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, June 1977
AND I'M supposed to be objective about these guys when I've lived with their first album for 15 months? When that was one of last ...
Report and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, Pig Paper, The, August 1977
IF YOU weren't square, you weren't there, or something. In other words, the gasping legions of Canadian punkdom filled the aptly-named New Yorker Theatre in ...
The Ramones: Rockets Or Rubberbands?
Interview by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, November 1977
I. Punk rock’s charter band will be your mirror. ...
Live Review by Lester Bangs, NME, November 1977
Iggy suffers metallic KO, Ramones rule OK? ...
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, November 1977
NO MORE shock tactics. Just arrow-straight at your teenage hearts....Wuz wrong! Thought they wanted to be the Byrds (those haircuts, see....); now know they want ...
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1977
WHO DOESN'T LIKE the Ramones? Nobody, that's who – unless they're dead or M. Black of Norwich or something. I've had this LP for three ...
The Ramones, The Rezillos: Market Hall, Carlisle
Live Review by Paul Morley, NME, December 1977
THE WORD used all day was surreal. ...
"We’re Just Very Mean, Very Angry People. We’re the Real Thing." The Ramones get to Phil Sutcliffe
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, December 1977
I walked through Carlisle in a mild drizzle musing on some crafted phrases about the castle, the airy market-town streets, the cool shower of country ...
The Ramones: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, January 1978
VERMILION, AFTERWARDS (taking in with a sweep of her arm the splendid rococo-deco vastness of the Rainbow gallery): "Rock'n'roll belongs in the pits, not here". ...
The Ramones/The Runaways: Santa Monica Civic, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, February 1978
RAMONES: singing about sun and surf while their home town suffered blizzards. 'Obladi-oblada' for the blank generation ...
The Ramones: Goodbye Tommy, Hello Marky
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, May 1978
DRUMMER wanted for name NY punk band. Must have own leather jacket and torn Levis. Ability to mumble 'gabba gabba' an advantage. No interlektewals. Apply ...
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, July 1978
TOMMY RAMONE don't wanna be a pinhead no more (that's assuming you thought he was a pinhead in the first place – in which case ...
Road To Ruin: One Small Step For Man, One Giant Step For The Ramones
Review by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, September 1978
AS THE NEW WAVE bubble bursts and explodes into a thousand tiny particles, the Ramones remain as true survivors, one of few punk acts to ...
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, September 1978
JOEY RAMONE sips tea, strikes Janet Street Porter pose... ...
The Ramones: A Blitz At The Speed Of Light
Live Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, September 1978
The Ramones: Ulster Hall, Belfast ...
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, October 1978
COULDN'T you just see it coming? Ever since the Ramones made a follow-up album to their magic formula debut they've been under some fire for ...
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, December 1978
"Sometimes timing is everything, you know?""How do you mean?" ...
The Ramones Finish High School
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, July 1979
"D-U-M-B, everyone's accusing me..." The Ramones don't wanna be pinheads no more. ...
The Ramones: You're Not The Same. Are They?
Report and Interview by Van Gosse, Melody Maker, August 1979
Will the Spector of big things gone by give the Ramones the platinum sound that has so far eluded them? ...
The Ramones: Ramonin' In The Moonlight
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1980
AH, THE RAMONES. It's always one of my favourite times when those four are carving up our land with strategic bursts of concentrated sonic Ramonia. ...
What Price Glory? The Ramones Soldier On
Interview by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, June 1980
"Survival of the fittest. And besides, it's fun." – Daffy Duck, helping a wabbit-hunting Elmer corner Bugs in Rabbit Fire ...
The Ramones: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, October 1980
"Despair of nothing you would attain, Unwearied diligence your point will gain!" – Men Who Have Risen, John Hogg, 1847. ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, July 1981
It's been a long, long wait since the Fab Four from Forest Hills foolishly put their genius into the mono-maniacal hands of noted has-been Phil ...
Radio Relief: Squeeze And The Ramones
Profile and Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, November 1981
Squeeze and the Ramones keep alive an intercontinental rivalry of rhythm for real-life people. But the Beatles and the Beach Boys?...Well, maybe not. ...
The Ramones: The Thinking Men of Pop
Interview by Cynthia Rose, NME, November 1981
NO TEMPO FUGIT FOR THE FOUR RAMONES — JUST BUSINESS UNUSUAL AS USUAL "Four tickets to the Ray-mones is it, dear?" enquires the little lady ...
The Ramones: Subterranean Jungle (Sire)
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, 1983
THE RAMONES have been responsible for two truly great albums (The Ramones and Rocket to Russia) and they have yet to produce a single longplayer ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, April 1983
THE RAMONES have been responsible for two truly great albums (Ramones and Rocket to Russia) and they've yet to produce a single longplayer that couldn't ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, NME, April 1983
Cynthia Rose Gabbas on the blower to the punk with subterranean Ramone (SIC!) blues. ...
The Ramones: If All Men Were Brudders
Interview by Cynthia Rose, Creem, September 1983
LONDON – The brothers Ramone – four schlepps whose schleppiness transmogrified the traumas of career adolescence into an entire art form – constitute America's greatest ...
The Flamin' Groovies and The Ramones: London Roundhouse
Retrospective by Mat Snow, NME, 1984
AS SPRING turned into the long, hot summer of '76, the '60s in the bloated shape of the Rolling Stones self-parodied itself up its own ...
Things Get Exciting Again for Ramones
Profile and Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Billboard, November 1984
'Too Tough To Die' After 10 Years ...
The Ramones: Now I Wanna Play My Five-Iron!!
Interview by Cynthia Rose, NME, November 1984
It had to happen. The hardcore epidemic sweeping America has re-inspired punk godparents the Ramones to make a GENUINE BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM more original (and more ...
The Ramones: Too Tough To Die (Sire, import)
Review by Mat Snow, NME, November 1984
AS THE legendary Nick Kent once remarked of the Stones, The Ramones don't do, they simply are, monsieur, even if they can't get a UK ...
The Flamin' Groovies/The Ramones: Live At The Roundhouse, London, Summer 1976
Retrospective by Mat Snow, NME, 1985
AS SPRING turned into the long, hot summer of '76, the '60s in the bloated shape of The Rolling Stones self-parodied itself up its own ...
Interview by Bill Black, Sounds, January 1985
ONE TWO THREE FOUR! Six, eight, ten? Is it really ten years since the Ramones turned a slum bar on the Bowery into the birthplace ...
The Ramones: Ain’t No Stoppin’ The Cretins From Boppin’!
Interview by Mat Snow, Barney Hoskyns, NME, February 1985
ONE! Joey...TWO! Dee Dee... FREE! Mat... FOUR! Barney... THE RAMONES revisited in a teenage tag-match ‘tween two of the scuzziest pairs of sneakers in the ...
The Ramones/Gene Love Jezebel/Restless: Lyceum, London
Live Review by David Quantick, NME, March 1985
HALF OF WESTERN CIVILISATION is here tonight; there are men in the toilet talking about Black Sabbath, there are Gary Holton and Rat Scabies and ...
Interview by Bill Black, NME, May 1986
Tenth album time finds the RAMONES in a curiously pro-Bonzo mood and talking of solo projects. BILL BLACK adjusts his hearing suitably... ...
Review by John McCready, NME, May 1986
THERE ARE but two reactions to a Ramones record. When it mumbles something like 'I Need Psychiatric Treatment', as they do here, you will either ...
Interview by Christine Natanael, crushermagazine.com, February 1989
The following is an interview conducted with Joey on February 3, 1989. It was conducted under the auspices of promoting the album Brain Drain, but ...
Meet The Family: Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads
Report and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, October 1990
There's Debbie, and there's Tina and, let's see, there's little Joey, hasn't he grown? Then there's and Chris and, uh, Chris... From the shadowy ...
Review by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, October 1992
Dear Mrs Ramone, Just a quick note to let you know how the boys are, these days. ...
Gabba Gabba Sniffle: The Ramones at Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Independent, The, February 1996
PUNK MAY not be dead, but the Ramones, it would seem, have finally bitten the dust – like the spaghetti western mercenaries to whom they ...
Essay by Ira Robbins, salon.com, July 1999
NOBODY DOESN'T LIKE the Ramones. They're as immortal as America's other band, the Beach Boys. Whatever punk became – ruined canvases of Mohawked body art, ...
The Ramones: Anthology: Hey Ho Let’s Go! (Warner Archives/Rhino)
Review by Eric Weisbard, Village Voice, July 1999
FROM THE punk oral history Please Kill Me to Joey and Johnny Ramone on Howard Stern, the mythology around the Ramones lately seems to emphasize ...
The Ramones: Hey! Ho! Let's Go! — The Ramones Anthology
Review and Interview by Andy Gill, Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, August 1999
I DON'T KNOW if they ever made a Ramones pin-ball machine, but if not, they missed a trick. Just imagine: the ritual chant of "Hey!Ho! ...
Hey Ho, He’s Gone: Farewell Joey Ramone — 1951-2001
Obituary by Nicky Parade, Rock's Backpages, April 2001
The true heroes of rock and roll are always the freaks and the geeks. Joey Ramone, born Jeffrey Hyman on May 19, 1951, was both. ...
In-a-Gadda-da-Gabba-Gabba-Hey!!
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, April 2001
The former leader of Thee Precisions and editor of Back Door Man pays personal tribute ...
Comment by Devon Powers, PopMatters, April 2001
SINCE JOEY Ramone’s death, countless journalists have commented, with varying mixtures of pessimism and solace, that punk is dead, literally. ...
Joey Ramone's 50th Birthday Bash: Hammerstein Ballroom, New York
Live Review by Michael Azerrad, Boston Phoenix, May 2001
IT'S FUNNY HOW memorials often take on the character of the person they honor. The sold-out "Life's a Gas – Joey Ramone's 50th Birthday Bash" ...
Joey Ramone: Hail, Hail To The King
Obituary by Ira Robbins, MOJO, June 2001
JOEY RAMONE WASN'T WHAT YOU'D CALL A PUNK. According to the movies, punks are snarling juvenile delinquents well versed in sucker-punches, concealed weapons and grievous ...
Obituary by Carol Clerk, Uncut, June 2001
'Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything' ...
Why The Ramones Really Belong In The Hall Of Fame
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, January 2002
One of the world's great bands gets its due ...
Joey Ramone: Don't Worry About Me (Sanctuary) ****
Review by Carol Clerk, Uncut, March 2002
HIS LONG-awaited solo album, posthumously released. ...
Joey Ramone: Don't Worry About Me
Review by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, May 2002
Don't Worry Joey: the Lead Ramone's Parting Shots ...
Obituary by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, July 2002
WITH THE DEATH of yet another Ramone, perhaps little really needs to be added at this point on how Dee Dee and his honorary brethren ...
Film/DVD Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
RAMONES GIGS were always exciting rather than accomplished affairs, and if this disc featured only their shambolic 1996 Los Angeles swansong there would be little ...
Johnny Ramone: End of the Century
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, January 2005
WHEN I SPOKE to Johnny Ramone less than a year ago, I had no idea that it would be one of his final interviews. Stoic, ...
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