#Ramones leave home songs full#
“I Remember You”: A way slower song that its two predecessors and seems more like a sixties pop ballad with its nice harmonies and this is also a song where the lovely tambourine comes into full play. The song is the story of a person that claims he is going insane and hears about shock treatment from his friend and decided to try it out and now he’s “happy happy happy all the time”.ģ.
#Ramones leave home songs series#
“Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment”: One of the first of the Ramones’ long series of songs about mental illness and this time about the treatment electro shock therapy. “I’m gonna smile, I’m gonna laugh/they’re gonna want my autograph”Ģ. The song also reflects on the attention and fame a murderer gets. The song seems to be about the break up, but also includes a metaphor that alludes to murder, with references to Charles Manson and bullets. The song is apparently about Dee Dee’s ex-girlfriend and the song is quite harsh, which might be understandable due to the violent things she is known to have done to her lovers. “Glad to see you go”: The album starts off quick. The Vindictives also did a great job covering this album!ġ. It’s just a little detail that makes the entire unity so much better. I recently bought a tambourine and I’ve realized lately that the tambourine is one of my favorite instruments and all my favorite records have lots of tambourine on them.
He also uses the tambourine a lot, and sometimes the drum sounds more like just a tambourine than drums. The three first albums also have Tommy Ramone on the drums, which had his unique drum sound. However, this feels a bit different than the others, maybe it’s their postures. The album cover is like all the four first albums with the band posing in their leather jacket and t-shirts. Leave home was released on Januon Sire records. I did however have to go with one of the classics from 1977 it’s called classic pop punk picks for fuck’s sake. And later we would get their best produced album Road to ruin and the Phil Spector produced End of the century and maybe the most underrated (yet having the most overplayed song) Pleasant dreams. I bought the latter in a record store with the view of Leith in Edinburgh (along with The Record’s “Teen-a-rama”, which has the creepiest cover I can think of and the Proclaimers’ Sunshine on Leith and got the same view as the dudes in the duo on the cover when I left the store, which was worth walking 500 miles for, but that’s another story) The first album was a good debut album, but these two albums took them to other heights. 1977 would also be the year of the most wonderful pop punk albums ever, the Ramones released both Rocket to Russia and Leave home.
I bought it when I was 15 or 16 in Sweden and it’s to me what marked the start of Punk rock and a year later the sound would be brought to the rest of the world with British bands like The Clash and the Sex pistols. Their first self-titled album was released in 1976.
And I’m of course talking about the band that started the whole thing, the band that if it wasn’t for their existence I wouldn’t be writing this column and most of my record collection would be non-existent. 1977, the year that punk became huge and the cool thing for every suburban kid in the western hemisphere was to have a Mohawk and a safety pin through your cheeks. So we need to go a little further back this time, the furthest I’ve gone back in this column.
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