Results for The RamonesAn interesting study in contrasts, the Ramones: an oft' acclaimed first punk rock band whose nom d' play paid homage to those slicked back, t-shirt sleeved greaser rockers of the '50s. Fifties in name but stripped down in sound, the Ramones led the way for bands from The Sex Pistols to Green Day and The Offspring and managed to outlive not a few of their early musical competitors while enjoying steady if not walloping success in both the States and U.K.. Emerging from Forest Hills, Queens as a trio about to become a quartet in 1974, The Ramones lingered 20 years in the limelight and managed to change their style very little over time. From club dates to first album, Ramones, released in 1976, the band toured and recorded a series of records including Pleasant Dreams in '81, Halfway to Sanity in '86 and Acid Eaters in '94 that chased mainstream popularity. Adios Amigos, in '95, launched a long farewell tour punctuated finally by an invitation on the sixth Lollapalooza tour. Dependable stars of the seventies through the nineties, the early years of the 21st century were not kind to The Ramones. Three of the four original members, Joey, Dee-Dee and Johnny, died in their early 50s, leaving Tommy, un-Ramoned since 1977, the last first punk.“more
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by Marissa G. Muller and Jocelyn Hoppa•June 18, 2009•
South London’s Art Brut is a modernized manifestation of Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo. At their gig on Monday night, members Ian Catskilkin and Jasper “Jeff” Future—taking heed from frontman Eddie Argos—two-guitar attacked the impersonal, aimless gob that much of contemporary music has become. Like a tribute to the Clash’s “Red Angel Dragnet”—with Argos speaking his lyrics over Catskilkin and Future’s winding chords—Art Brut asked, “What does it mean? What the fuck does any of it mean?”
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by j. poet•June 16, 2009•
"The strongest songs are as good as anything being turned out by their older musical peers."
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by James Greene, Jr.•June 1, 2009•
"Relatively untalented and uncreative people have been fooling record buyers with rock ‘n’ roll music that sounds kind of decent for decades."
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by Max Mobley•May 27, 2009•
"Stories of Spector pulling a gun on John Lennon, Leonard Cohen, and the Ramones are both well-documented and corroborated."
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by James Greene, Jr.•May 26, 2009•
"Look, I think C.J. was a great Ramone, but busting out of the gate with him on vox is both disorienting and confusing."
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8/15/2008
cool info on crabby appleton. but u have to wonder how a group that put out 2 lps and had a hit single did not play for...
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5/3/2008
Thanks for the vault. Love it! Question for you. I remember that the all-girl band the Runaways opened the Ramones show...
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12/25/2007
Here's a few surprises in the past year, ones I truly liked:
The INCREDIBLE STRING BAND. "This moment" and "Log...
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12/16/2007
I was there. A buddy of mine named Tom Witt got four tickets and was kind enough to hook me up. We were seniors in high...
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8/1/2007
[quote user="Peter H"]Cream.[/quote]
Lame band. The equivalent of musical masturbation.
Talk about self-indulgent,...
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