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Droog's version is probably playing in an elevator

I prefer the raw guitar of the punk version, but regardless, the lyrics suck
the Ramones have much better material

bam bam bam, bam bam bam

Droog's version is probably playing in an elevator

I prefer the raw guitar of the punk version, but regardless, the lyrics suck
the Ramones have much better material

bam bam bam, bam bam bam

I was fortunate enough to see The Ramones play live, well, a whole lot of times. Both with Dee Dee and CJ on bass.
Whatever you think of them, their concerts were a whole other world. They walked on stage to "Good Bad and the Ugly" which transitioned to a quick guitar piece called "Durango 95" (the car from "A Clockwork Orange"). After that, it was nothing but Dee Dee yelling, "1-2-3-4!" and BOOM! The sound hit at 3x the normal tempo and kept going for the next 2 hours.

Johnny would make laps across the stage with his Mosrite guitar, playing nothing but furious downstrokes. Joey, all 6'5" pasty white, would stand in the middle of it all and really never move.

Good, fun times. Ministry, by way of contrast, ran a real risk of permanent injury or death during their shows.

many groups are just better in concert

respect the Ramones for their music and contributing Punk to the USA

I never saw them perform, my bad

listening to their greatest hits currently

I'm not a huge Ramones fan, they don't have any soul, groove, rhythm, or funk.  Slashing out toneless downstrokes on a battered guitar doesn't constitute music.  Young white people felt the need to come up with some kind of atonal noise to annoy the establishment and especially, their parents, and the result of that, was the Ramones.  When that didn't work, heavy metal was created.

They'd actually agree with you, except for the heavy metal part.

It takes about 30 seconds to tell which song they're playing, since they're almost all variations on "buh-da-buh-da-buh-da-buh-da" in 3 chords. That's unfortunate, because the songs only last 2 1/2 minutes.

It wrecked the 8 minute long saga ballads that ELP and Deep Purple were playing. They had talent. The Ramones didn't.

Heavy Metal was created when Tony Iommi realized he couldn't play Beatles covers with his fingertips cut off.

the truth

I'll appeal to the message board, is this a country song?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3KvNFk20vY

Sounds like a pop song to me, whether it was recorded in Nashville or Los Angeles.
Nothin' about prison, or trains, or gettin' drunk, or killin' somebody, or gettin' killed, or mama.
No steel guitar.
Change the key and Karen Carpenter could have sung it.

Sounds like a pop song to me, whether it was recorded in Nashville or Los Angeles.
Nothin' about prison, or trains, or gettin' drunk, or killin' somebody, or gettin' killed, or mama.
No steel guitar.
Change the key and Karen Carpenter could have sung it.

Uh, guys..

I thought you were kidding.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkK8g6FMEXE