Ramones
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Ramones
Ramones is the debut studio album by American punk rock band the Ramones, released on April 23, 1976 by Sire Records. The Ramones began recording in January 1976, needing only seven days and $6,400 to record the album. They used similar sound-output techniques to those of the Beatles and used advanced production methods by Leon. Ramones peaked at number 111 on the US Billboard 200 and was unsuccessful commercially, though it received glowing reviews from critics. Many later deemed it a highly influential record, and it has since received many accolades, such as the top spot on Spin magazine's list of the "50 Most Essential Punk Records". -Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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Rolling Stone
The Ramones are authentic American primitives whose work has to be heard to be understood. Heard, not read about or synopsized. -1976
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Ultimate Classic Rock
By putting [the Ramones] all in the blender and turning up the volume and speed to near-maximum levels, they created a masterpiece that sounded little like the big rock albums of the day. -2016
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BBC
...not many people did actually buy the album, but nearly all who did formed a band. -2007
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Sputnik Music
This is the beggining of everything that "punk" truly was. Sure, there were "punk" bands before the Ramones, but they themselves made it what it is truly thought of. -2005
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Loudwire
And though the Ramones would go on to release many more classics during the band's 22-year career, Ramones remains a brilliant recording from front to back. -2017
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NME
For a band for whom there was no such thing as too little, there’s no such thing as too much. Within these songs is the very essence of rock’n’roll. -2005
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Prindle Records
Yes, this is punk, and it's cute and funny but, as evidenced by their fantastic second album, this stuff sounds about ten times better when there's a confident, talented singer leading the band.
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Observer
Let’s honor the Ramones by honoring Ramones, an album so conceptually staggering that it put the brain on alert, so well executed that it made the body feel at peace with the universe. -2016
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Adrien Denning
The Ramones were not your normal punk band. This is deliriously silly and happy stuff - a cover of an old Rock and Roll tune. Because they could, and they did.
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NPR Music
This was rock and roll as minimalism meant to vanquish prog-rock, bourgeois folk, and other maximalist movements that defined the decade. -2016
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No Depression
we definitely need much of this music, which still sounds thrilling four decades after it helped to launch the punk era in the U.S. and U.K. -2016
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Punk News
this album sparked a movement, a musical revolution, and an entire musical family tree of countless artists over 40 years taking what the Ramones built and doing something completely new with it again and again. -2016
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Dean Christgau
it's clean the way the Dolls never were, sprightly the way the Velvets never were, and just plain listenable the way Black Sabbath never was.
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Louder Sound
Ramones is often described as a masterpiece of compact brevity, shorn of excess. -2016
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NY Times
With its raw sound and extremely bare songwriting style, “Ramones” became a founding document of punk rock.
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The Indecent
Ramones is one of those rare records where there is not a single weak or out-of-place song. -2013
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Dangerous Minds
Ramones may have been loud, bratty provocateurs but they're also spiritual. Their songs were mantras. -2016
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Escapist Magazine
What's for sure is that, with their self-titled debut, they have laid the foundations for punk rock and everything afterwards. -2015
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iTunes
The original 14-song album retains a brashness that's as evocative as its black-and-white cover photo and as severe as its hard stereo mix.
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Spin
'Ramones' has been universally acknowledged as one of the primary influencers of the punk-rock movement. -2014
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Super Seventies
Ramones is cheap thrills sped up to breakneck speed and played as though the four musicians were racing to see who could finish first.-2013
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John Mcferrin Music
ultimately this album just makes me feel incredibly happy and light on my feet. This is just a great rock record.
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Under The Radar
[Ramones] define roots of much of the guitar music of the last 40 years, but mainly because it's a great, fun album by one of the greatest bands ever. -2016
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The Austin Chronicle
Though the Ramones released a few more compelling albums before their 1996 retirement, the first four are jam-packed, genre-defining classics that guarantee the bruddahs a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Yahoo
Ramones is a lesson in austerity. It's so brilliantly basic that it sounds unfinished in context with other records of its era and perfectly complete to modern ears.
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Consequence of Sound
Ramones defined punk the same way The Beatles did pop or Black Sabbath did metal.
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Oceanview Press
Widely regarded by fans, both of classic rock and punk, as the battle cry anthem of all things worth celebrating in life, it’s a 2:12 minute assault on your senses. -2015
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Off the Grid
‘The Ramones’ was the absolute antithesis of the bloated, album-oriented, arena rock of the era. It was quick, it was simple, and anyone could play it in their basement or local bar or club. -2017
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Stereogum
Voice, guitar, bass, drums. Simple, speedy, stripped-down rock’n’roll.
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Irish Times
Ramones was a vertical shift in music’s evolution, split rock’n’roll history in half, was directly responsible for The Sex Pistols and The Clash. -2014
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