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You know - I didn't listen to them for the longest time because of the huge amount of d-bags I'd seen walking around with their shirt on.
What a mistake.
Say good things about The Ramones in this thread.
The Notorious LOL
12-14-2006, 07:28 AM
Im glad most of em are dead.
Planetary
12-14-2006, 07:58 AM
Im glad most of em are dead.
why?
The Notorious LOL
12-14-2006, 08:39 AM
because I hate them.
Otis Driftwood
12-14-2006, 08:49 AM
I believe overrated is the word you're lookin for...
Planetary
12-14-2006, 11:02 AM
because I hate them.
oh...
why?
i think it's silly to call them underrated when you look at the impact they had on punk music after them.
I'm pretty sure that NLOL's music collection would basically be the inverse of mine. If we both lived in the same room it would just be silence because our stereos would be playing opposing soundwaves.
Planetary
12-14-2006, 11:06 AM
I'm pretty sure that NLOL's music collection would basically be the inverse of mine. If we both lived in the same room it would just be silence because our stereos would be playing opposing soundwaves.
yeah it's probably not worth getting into a debate over.
Hah! Nah, I'm not really sure, but I think I remember him saying that Weezer, Sublime, and Beck all sucked too. They're all pretty mainstream artists I realize, and taste is subjective - but I like them all and I think there's a decent fanbase behind each group that would agree.
NLOL could get sponsored by Hatorade.
DipDipDive
12-14-2006, 11:12 AM
NLOL could get sponsored by Hatorade.
Nah. He's sort of a snob, but who isn't when it comes to taste in music?
btw The Ramones suck d00d lol
Ya heard one Ramones song, ya heard em all.
The Notorious LOL
12-14-2006, 11:21 AM
I love older Beck. Anything newer is terrible.
Genocide Tulips
12-14-2006, 11:22 AM
I only listen to the first four albums and it's like listening to one album.
It gets old real fast. It annoys me they didn't really want to change their sound because of the fans.
Junker
12-14-2006, 11:32 AM
Change?? Yeah...they could have done some disco songs.
Genocide Tulips
12-14-2006, 12:07 PM
They could have attempted to learn their instruments better and do something even more, but they chose the three chord route and did nothing remarkable.
Disco? Hey, Blondie did it.
Planetary
12-14-2006, 12:16 PM
They could have attempted to learn their instruments better and do something even more, but they chose the three chord route and did nothing remarkable.
but intricate instruments and perfect production sounds a slow tempos wasnt what the ramoned stood for.
Genocide Tulips
12-14-2006, 12:24 PM
but intricate instruments and perfect production sounds a slow tempos wasnt what the ramoned stood for.
Joey wanted the change, but Johnny was deadset against it.
yeahwho
12-14-2006, 01:48 PM
Hey guys, how are you all doing? Another thread about "How I took the Ramones seriously and looked like an Ass on the internet" LOLZ!
Now you may wanna go sniff some glue.
The best band on erf, period.
Jitters
12-14-2006, 01:55 PM
NLOL could get sponsored by Hatorade.
Somebody please sig this.............
As for the Ramones I used to be a huge fan of them but for some reason I sold all their stuff :(
I really like their earlier stuff but when they got into the 80's it started to go downhill, End of the Century was great though, I never understood the backlash it got.
The Notorious LOL
12-14-2006, 01:57 PM
yeah thats a totally rad sig in the making, d00d!! sounds like some shit Fred Durst would say.
SobaViolence
12-14-2006, 02:13 PM
now there was musical genius...
before his time, he was.
DroppinScience
12-14-2006, 02:40 PM
Ramones are awesome, and all y'all are too cynical to deal with this fact.
Listen to yeahwho. He knows what time it is.
Auton
12-14-2006, 03:06 PM
the most overrated rock band of all time. i regret spending time and money on them. booooo!!!!
yeahwho
12-14-2006, 03:26 PM
My only regret about the Ramones is the fact that we don't have a "Dress Like a Ramone Day" akin to the "Talk Like a Pirate Day"......
“I Don't Want To Walk Around With You” will go down as one of the most beatiful songs on the planit.
yeah thats a totally rad sig in the making, d00d!! sounds like some shit Fred Durst would say.
Haha, ouch.
I'm not really going to defend the Ramones. I mean, I heard "Blitzkrieg Bop" ages ago and figured that was all there was to them - and in a way it is. A friend of mine was playing a collection in his car a couple months ago and I just thought the music sounded fresh and fun for being almost 30 years old.
It's just feel-good music that makes a conscious effort at being simple. Maybe you're into that, maybe you're not. Maybe you just don't like them anyways.
I like NLOL, if he wasn't here to compare me to Fred Durst my ego would be huge.
Auton
12-14-2006, 04:21 PM
he was talking about jitters.
he was talking about jitters.
You sure?
Whatevs.
Auton
12-14-2006, 04:25 PM
oh wait. i misunderstood. yeah, he was making fun of you.
The Notorious LOL
12-14-2006, 04:34 PM
"Hatorade" specifically.
DroppinScience
12-14-2006, 11:57 PM
I'm not really going to defend the Ramones.
That's cause they don't need defending. (y)
Junker
12-15-2006, 07:48 AM
They could have attempted to learn their instruments better and do something even more, but they chose the three chord route and did nothing remarkable.
It wouldnt be punk then. :p
Genocide Tulips
12-15-2006, 09:15 PM
I will admit, them live is amazing.
Satan
01-07-2007, 11:10 PM
The RAMONES blow.
NO TALENT.
skinnybutphat
01-09-2007, 10:43 AM
They are good live. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=3awsHE351vY)
abcdefz
01-09-2007, 10:48 AM
The first Ramones album I ever had was Pleasant Dreams when it first came out. I played "The KKK Took My Baby Away" for my friend Jeff, who, like, in two notes started going, "The Ramones! I don't know anybody else who likes the Ramones!" and started raving. We were probably 15 or so? Small town Indiana.
It was probably more that most of our people hadn't heard the Ramones. They were pretty much victims of radio.
On the flip side: one of the three worst concerts I ever saw was the Ramones in Louisville. :(
Genocide Tulips
01-09-2007, 01:01 PM
The first Ramones album I ever had was Pleasant Dreams when it first came out. I played "The KKK Took My Baby Away" for my friend Jeff, who, like, in two notes started going, "The Ramones! I don't know anybody else who likes the Ramones!" and started raving. We were probably 15 or so? Small town Indiana.
It was probably more that most of our people hadn't heard the Ramones. They were pretty much victims of radio.
On the flip side: one of the three worst concerts I ever saw was the Ramones in Louisville. :(
Why was it one of your bottom three concerts?
afronaut
01-09-2007, 01:17 PM
the ramones had more variation in their career than anyone gives them credit for.
i mean, the majority of that variation is shit. but still. variation is variation.
I got the "Weird Tales of the Ramones" box set for xmas. The comic book that came with it was great.
abcdefz
01-09-2007, 01:19 PM
Why was it one of your bottom three concerts?
Imagine them speeding through all their Ramones Mania "hits" at a thousand miles an hour with zero enthusiasm. It was like somebody had put Ramonezombies up there with no heart -- just wanted to play and get the hell out of there. It sucked.
beastieangel01
01-11-2007, 05:31 PM
I like NLOL, if he wasn't here to compare me to Fred Durst my ego would be huge.
this banter is pretty entertaining.
I haven't delved much in to the Ramones, for pretty much the same reason you had prior to doing so. And laziness.
Perhaps in a CD exchange.
DroppinScience
01-11-2007, 05:48 PM
I haven't delved much in to the Ramones, for pretty much the same reason you had prior to doing so. And laziness.
With that, I say:
I don't wanna walk around with you
I don't wanna walk around with you
I don't wanna walk around with you
So why you wanna walk around with me?
I don't wanna walk around with you! :mad:
(Yeah, try their first album)
Genocide Tulips
01-11-2007, 05:54 PM
Imagine them speeding through all their Ramones Mania "hits" at a thousand miles an hour with zero enthusiasm. It was like somebody had put Ramonezombies up there with no heart -- just wanted to play and get the hell out of there. It sucked.
Wow, that really sucks.
yeahwho
01-11-2007, 06:47 PM
The Ramones may be the most understood band of all time. Underhyped and ignored to the point of VFW hall tours in the 70's where they played with such speed and enthusiasm it fried prog rock disco brains, then 30+ years later overhyped to the point of total misunderstanding.
Really, I love this band, but the context and seriousness invested into them misses the mark and kind of ruins any fun that was intentionally are unintentionally meant to be.
Charles M. Young's Road to Ruin (http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theramones/albums/album/121860/review/5945084/road_to_ruin) review from 1978 is such a great review I'll post it again....somebody got all mad at me when I posted it a year ago....I'm keeping my fingers crossed I piss somebody off by posting it again!!! I don't want to walk around with them anyways.
yeahwho
01-11-2007, 06:52 PM
The words "Ramones" and "Louisville" probably shouldn't even be in the same sentence.
:D
or glue and panties.
abcdefz
01-12-2007, 09:51 AM
Wow, that really sucks.
Yeah, it did. Small club, too. Maybe two hundred people? Maybe.
It's funny: my three least favorite concerts were all people I really like: Sonic Youth, Elvis Costello, and the Ramones. And some of the best concerts I've been to were people I didn't even think that much of: Huey Lewis and the News, for example. They were terrific live.
abcdefz
01-12-2007, 09:51 AM
The words "Ramones" and "Louisville" probably shouldn't even be in the same sentence.
You've never lived in Louisville, then. That's a fine city. (y)
Genocide Tulips
01-12-2007, 09:18 PM
Yeah, it did. Small club, too. Maybe two hundred people? Maybe.
It's funny: my three least favorite concerts were all people I really like: Sonic Youth, Elvis Costello, and the Ramones. And some of the best concerts I've been to were people I didn't even think that much of: Huey Lewis and the News, for example. They were terrific live.
Curious about how bad that Sonic Youth concert was.
balohna
01-12-2007, 10:41 PM
The Ramones are kind of boring IMO, at least in studio form. I think the best of the "oldschool" punk bands is The Clash, and that's mostly because they went beyond punk and became just an amazing band in general.
abcdefz
01-13-2007, 12:07 PM
I'm sure Louisville is cool beans, It's just that I don't imagine it to be a very "Ramones" kind of place ifyaknowhamsayin.
It's a pretty big arts/journalism/theater town, actually. Nice underground scene without a lot of pretention. Very cool.
One highlight was the time I went to see Steve Forbert play a solo gig at Teweligan's -- the place holds maybe 80 people -- and after the show I turned around, and the guys from REM were hanging at the back bar, presumably so they could hear Steve but not distract the audience in any way.
Peter Buck was very nice. (y)
Steve Forbert was very sick. Kept asking someone to run out and get him brandy. Put on a great show anyway.
abcdefz
01-13-2007, 12:11 PM
Curious about how bad that Sonic Youth concert was.
They just couldn't get it together. It was in Sacramento, and it was pretty clear that they didn't want to be there, for whatever reason. Thurston and Kim were obviously fighting -- they'd keep throwing each other nasty looks or one would stand in front of the other with their back to the crowd and say some shit. No idea what, but they were pissed. The sound was shit, which is partially the Crest's fault, but other people have made it work. I left after maybe half an hour or so -- I can't quite remember. My girlfriend stayed inside, so I went outside and killed time smoking and talking to my ex-girlfriend, who worked there.
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