It's Friday again!!  

It must be Friday afternoon somewhere!

I had made up my mind that today, Friday, I would NOT be depressed. And then this played, and I raised my eyes skyward and thanked the powers that be for the one song that could guarantee my good mood.

Gotta go now - I owe romeotuma a dance!

There is no such thing as 'overplayed' !!!

Now, this is Friday music!

Masters of 3 chord punk. 

I know this is their most well-known (and subsequently over-played song) after "Blitzkrieg", but it's still cool 32 years later.

 victoryluna wrote: 
That is horribly mean, but horribly funny and unfortunately accurate.  Of course, who knows how many children are safe from his Jesus Juice now.

Michael Jackson's theme song...

ok, now we're rockin
God Bless Joey

I like to be in control of my fingers and toes.

NPR just did a thing on songs that make you happy, and this and Rocks Off were listed. Coincidence?

 lkovathana wrote: 

Truly...GOP debate last night makes this song even more appropriate

 Cynaera wrote: 


Let's dance first...  love this song...

 Jelani wrote: 

First time I saw them (wasn't until the early 90s— I was about zero when they got started) Frank Black opened for them.  It was at this little 1000-person club in St. Louis.  My buddy and I had been there a bunch of times so when we saw all these big black boxes up on stage that we'd never seen at other shows, we were like "Hey, what are all those big black boxes?  Those can't be speakers, can they?  Oh dear god......................"

By the time Black's first song was done, I think I had a bruise in the middle of my chest from the bass drum and I swear my hearing is not what it should be today thanks to that night.  

Great show.  :) 

First track on Ramonesmania, the fifth CD I ever owned.  

So good.   

Saw these guys in concert a couple times.  Well past their prime, but so cool to see my rock'n'roll heroes in person.   

AWESOME TRANSITION:great mesh between Focus -> Ramones, well done Bill, well done.

 

the perfect follow-up to Hocus Pocus by Focus.  Nicely done!

A song for our times.

 Jelani wrote: 
WHAAAAT?

I WANNA BE SEDATED!!!!  Seriously.

 ScottishWillie wrote:  
Most of what was "harder, faster and in your face" in the mid-to-late 1970's doesn't seem to be so much of those things anymore.  There was a time when only a handful of radio DJs were even allowed to play The Ramones or their punk/new wave contemporaries (even in NYC!).  Now you hear their tunes in TV ads, sports arenas, and Disney movies.

i seen em all and i'm here to tell ya, the greatest live Rock and Roll band of all time

I like the version Young at Heart did...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2EOuLMqPis&feature=related

I saw these guys in NYC back in '80, I think. It was so damned loud! It sounded like they played one continuous song occasionally interrupted by "one,two ,three, four" .
My ears were ringing for three days after that. I was so scared they were going to stay that way.
Had a ton of fun though !

 Foot wrote: 
I'd been to that club a few times.  I don't remember if I saw The Ramones there, but I had seen them before at CBGB (and probably Max's) - around 1977 and/or '78.

All the energy of the 6-ish minute Yodel song packed into 3-ish minutes

gimme more Ramones

 Foot wrote: 
Nope, but I did catch them at First Avenue in Mpls. in early 1980.  I (vaguely) remember standing about three feet from Johnny for about 90 glorious minutes, and my ears had a lingering post-gig ring in them for at least 2 days after.  Man, THEY WERE LOUD!