Biography

The Ramones are the first punk rock band. Other bands, such as the Stooges and the New York Dolls, came before them and set the stage and aesthetic for punk, and bands that immediately followed, such as the Sex Pistols, made the latent violence of the music more explicit, but the Ramones crystallized the musical ideals of the genre. By cutting rock & roll down to its bare essentials -- four chords; a simple, catchy melody; and irresistibly inane lyrics -- and speeding up the tempo considerably, the Ramones created something that was rooted in early-'60s, pre-Beatles rock & roll and pop but sounded revolutionary. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• 53rd & 3rd

• 7 And 7 Is

• All Screwed Up

• Animal Boy

• Bad Horoscope

• Beat On The Brat

• Blitzkreig Bop

• Blitzkrieg Bop

• Bonzo Goes To Bitberg

• Bonzo Goes To Bitburg

• Bop 'til You Drop

• California Sun

• Can't Get You Outta My Mind

• Can't Seem To Make You Mine

• Cherry Bomb

• Chinese Rock

• Chinese Rocks

• Commando

• Cretin Family

• Cretin Hop

• Danny Says

• Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?

• Do You Remember Rock And Roll Radio

• Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?

• Do You Wanna Dance

• Do You Want To Dance

• Don't Come Close

• Garden Of Serenity

• Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

• Got A Lot To Say

• Howling At The Moon (sha-la-la)

• I Am Seeing U.f.o.'s

• I Believe In Miracles

• I Don't Care

• I Don't Wanna Grow Up

• I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You

• I Don't Want To Grow Up

• I Wanna Be Sedated

• I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

• I Wanna Live

• I'm Against It

• It's Not My Place (in The 9 To 5 World)

• Judy Is A Punk

• Mama's Boy

• Merry Christmas (i Don't Want To Fight Tonight)

• My Back Pages

• My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (bonzo Goes To Bitburg)

• My-my Kind Of A Girl

• Needles And Pins

• Now I Wanna Be Sedated

• Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue

• Outsider

• Pet Sematary

• Pinhead

• Poison Heart

• Psycho Therapy

• R.a.m.o.n.e.s.

• Rock & Roll High School

• Rock & Roll Radio

• Rock 'n' Roll High School

• Rockaway Beach

• She Talks To Rainbows

• Sheena Is A Punk Rocker

• Sheena Is A Punk Rocker [remastered Abc Single Version]

• She's A Sensation

• Somebody Put Something In My Drink

• Substitute

• Surfin' Bird

• Suzy Is A Headbanger

• Swallow My Pride

• Teenage Lobotomy

• The Kkk Took My Baby Away

• Too Tough To Die

• Touring

• Wart Hog

• We Want The Airwaves

• We're A Happy Family

Discography

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• NYC 1978

  King Biscuit Entertainment

  2003

• We're Outta Here!

  Radioactive Records / MCA

  1997

• Greatest Hits Live

  Radioactive Records / Radioactive

  1996

• ¡Adios Amigos!

  Radioactive Records / Radioactive

  1995

• Acid Eaters

  Radioactive Records / MCA

  1993

• Mondo Bizarro

  EMI

  1992

• Loco Live

  Sire

  1991

• Brain Drain

  Sire

  1989

• Halfway to Sanity

  Sire

  1987

• Animal Boy

  Sire / Warner Bros.

  1986

• It's Alive

  Warner Bros.

  1979