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Do you remember Hullabaloo,
Upbeat, Shindig and Ed Sullivan too?
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?
Do you remember Murray the K,
Alan Freed, and high energy?
It's the end, the end of the 70's
It's the end, the end of the century
Do you remember lying in bed
With your covers pulled up over your head?
Radio playin' so one can see
We need change, we need it fast
Before rock's just part of the past
'Cause lately it all sounds the same to me
Oh-oh
Will you remember Jerry Lee, John Lennon, T. Rex and Ol' Moulty?
It's the end, the end of the 70's
It's the end, the end of the century
Upbeat, Shindig and Ed Sullivan too?
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?
Do you remember rock'n'roll radio?
Do you remember Murray the K,
Alan Freed, and high energy?
It's the end, the end of the 70's
It's the end, the end of the century
Do you remember lying in bed
With your covers pulled up over your head?
Radio playin' so one can see
We need change, we need it fast
Before rock's just part of the past
'Cause lately it all sounds the same to me
Oh-oh
Will you remember Jerry Lee, John Lennon, T. Rex and Ol' Moulty?
It's the end, the end of the 70's
It's the end, the end of the century
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: May 13, 2013 - 11:46 Yeah, boys, nowadays it all sounds the same to me, too. |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: May 13, 2013 - 11:46 SmackDaddy wrote: Please let me know that your tongue was firmly planted in your cheek. Why not, they sound similar just dress different. |
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Mar 11, 2013 - 19:21 apd wrote: rdo wrote: I've always thought this was more of a chant than a song. Just sayin'. The Ramones did list, as one of their influences, the Bay City Rollers, so... Please let me know that your tongue was firmly planted in your cheek. |
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Mar 11, 2013 - 19:20 bronorb wrote: Never got into these guys in the 70's, even less now. Too bad for you |
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Mar 11, 2013 - 19:20 Cynaera wrote: I think The Ramones are/were an acquired taste. If you leaned towards that three-minute blast of mind-shattering music, you loved the Ramones. If you were more inclined to be analytical and cosmic, you probably liked Yes, ELP, and the Moodies. Personally, I loved them all, for various reasons. I'd danced under a mirrorball with gay men (and women) until I'd had my fill of the danger and ambiguousness of disco, and right about the time I faded from that whole scene, The Ramones (well, and MC5, who'd been around forever) slammed me upside the head, and I was like a pinball, bouncing from rock to rock. I honestly don't know how I survived from 1974 to today, with all the twists and spins I experienced while I was trying to find my musical focus. I think I've found it, and The Ramones are still very close to my heart, though they don't exist anymore and at least one of the members is dead. They left a legacy, similar to the Sex Pistols (which I could do without, but who nevertheless contributed a huge amount of valid material to the music-pool.) So - music is flux, not anchor (read your Jack Chalker for this one.) It moves, though its roots are firm. We all love different types of music for different reasons, but it's all music. And I love it all, even if sometimes I can't bear to listen to it.  Not to be all school marmy, but in reality the Sex Pistols only put out one proper album - Nevermind the Bollocks (in their original form i.e., excluding Filthy Lucre). Some additional material on The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, but that's about it. Everything else was rehashed and repackaged with maybe an added outtake, demo or live recording thrown in. They did indeed have a HUGE influence. |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Mar 11, 2013 - 19:16 Cynaera wrote: I hear the Ramones and I just want to dance. It gets embarrassing when I'm watering plants at the nursery/greenhouse, but I just can't help it. So - my co-workers think I'm a little bit "teched in the head," but that's okay - it relieves me of having to make conversation. Miss you so much, Cynaera... |
| bronorb (Wisconsin) | Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 10:28 Never got into these guys in the 70's, even less now. |
| xtalman (What dimension?) | Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 10:27 jpfueler wrote: Duke Ellington into the Ramones...There is the reason I so love this place  |
| msymmes (Toronto, CA) | Posted: Feb 02, 2013 - 21:02 I certainly do ! |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 12:52 rdo wrote: I've always thought this was more of a chant than a song. Just sayin'. The Ramones did list, as one of their influences, the Bay City Rollers, so... |
| jpfueler (Alvarado, Texas, (A Bit FurtherSouth o' Ft Worth)) | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 17:17 Duke Ellington into the Ramones...There is the reason I so love this place |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 17:16 I've always thought this was more of a chant than a song. Just sayin'. |
| Carl (The Summit City) | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 17:16 Propayne wrote: … I'm sooo glad I got to see them perform live.… Lucky! I think they'd be/have been a great act live! (BTW, this song has a *great* hook! IMHO) |
| ckcotton (Adding snarky comments since 2007) | Posted: Nov 06, 2012 - 07:58 Just can't seem to appreciate this. I get their significance but just seems like that time has passed..... |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 10:03 yuel wrote: R.I.P. Joey, Johnny & DeeDee- i miss the ramones.... Lordy, me too. I'm sooo glad I got to see them perform live. The rock-n-roll cliche is that it's usually the drummers that go first - except with the Ramones it would seem. |
| yuel (Taka-Tuka-Land) | Posted: Sep 04, 2012 - 09:33 R.I.P. Joey, Johnny & DeeDee- i miss the ramones.... |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: Jul 29, 2012 - 10:27 LongGoneDaddy wrote: i do remember 1979 becoming 1980, lying in bed with the covers pulled over my head, radio so low that no one can hear. but they didn't play the Ramones on the radio back then.... Yeah, this song would have been perfect radio material, but we got "Supertramppled" to death back then. |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 11:52 i do remember 1979 becoming 1980, lying in bed with the covers pulled over my head, radio so low that no one can hear. but they didn't play the Ramones on the radio back then.... |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 09:20 Art_Carnage wrote: Awesome what you can do, with just 4 chords. copy that... |
| rsfc_carp (Lafayette, IN) | Posted: Mar 24, 2012 - 16:18 Cynaera wrote: I think The Ramones are/were an acquired taste. If you leaned towards that three-minute blast of mind-shattering music, you loved the Ramones. If you were more inclined to be analytical and cosmic, you probably liked Yes, ELP, and the Moodies. Personally, I loved them all, for various reasons. I'd danced under a mirrorball with gay men (and women) until I'd had my fill of the danger and ambiguousness of disco, and right about the time I faded from that whole scene, The Ramones (well, and MC5, who'd been around forever) slammed me upside the head, and I was like a pinball, bouncing from rock to rock. I honestly don't know how I survived from 1974 to today, with all the twists and spins I experienced while I was trying to find my musical focus. I think I've found it, and The Ramones are still very close to my heart, though they don't exist anymore and at least one of the members is dead. They left a legacy, similar to the Sex Pistols (which I could do without, but who nevertheless contributed a huge amount of valid material to the music-pool.) So - music is flux, not anchor (read your Jack Chalker for this one.) It moves, though its roots are firm. We all love different types of music for different reasons, but it's all music. And I love it all, even if sometimes I can't bear to listen to it. You say the darnedest things, Marina. |
| hencini | Posted: Jan 26, 2012 - 19:48 hencini wrote: Not what I'd consider "classic" Ramones but I love it. Wall of Sound > * 8—>9 This really is brilliant... As is the current RP lineup: I Heard Ramona Sing —> Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio —> Radio, Radio. Three of my favorite artists in a row there... Nicely done, Bill... |
| neuticle (fog fog fog) | Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 13:10 Phil Spector and the Ramones..kind of makes sense somehow |
| hencini | Posted: Oct 23, 2011 - 18:01 Not what I'd consider "classic" Ramones but I love it. Wall of Sound > * |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Oct 18, 2011 - 05:09 What I loved—absolute, unquestioning love—about punk was its elasticity. The Ramones, arguably one of the prototypical punk bands, were nothing more than a throwback to the AM rock'n'pop that I grew up with. Even something as subversive as "I Wanna Be Sedated" was set to elemental chords and a trad/rad song structure. RIP Joey Ramone. |
| Cynaera (Kenneth's Frequency) | Posted: Aug 21, 2011 - 17:09 I hear the Ramones and I just want to dance. It gets embarrassing when I'm watering plants at the nursery/greenhouse, but I just can't help it. So - my co-workers think I'm a little bit "teched in the head," but that's okay - it relieves me of having to make conversation. |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Aug 16, 2011 - 05:52 sbegf wrote: I like the Ramones, but this song sounds like it should be part of a Scooby Doo movie....just not enjoyable to listen too... And this is different than other Ramones songs in which way?? |
| sbegf (Manchester, Maryland) | Posted: Jul 21, 2011 - 08:27 I like the Ramones, but this song sounds like it should be part of a Scooby Doo movie....just not enjoyable to listen too... |
| Art_Carnage (DeepintheheartofTexas) | Posted: Jun 19, 2011 - 16:15 Awesome what you can do, with just 4 chords. |
| olivertwist (Atlanta GA) | Posted: Jun 14, 2011 - 04:42 Good tune, but I prefer the shorter, punchier songs from their first 4 albums. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Jun 14, 2011 - 04:38 I wonder if the voice of Otto from the Simpsons was based on the Ramones? ;) Viva punk! 7 from the rock 'n' rollin' Nottingham jury. |
| jam5ie76 | Posted: May 19, 2011 - 01:15 IMO Ramones tunes all sound too similar. I like them all, they just need to be one at a time  |
| Rooney (Near Paradise) | Posted: May 13, 2011 - 14:01 Nah, I don't remember R&R radio like the way they just sang it.  |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Feb 13, 2011 - 16:28 I think The Ramones are/were an acquired taste. If you leaned towards that three-minute blast of mind-shattering music, you loved the Ramones. If you were more inclined to be analytical and cosmic, you probably liked Yes, ELP, and the Moodies. Personally, I loved them all, for various reasons. I'd danced under a mirrorball with gay men (and women) until I'd had my fill of the danger and ambiguousness of disco, and right about the time I faded from that whole scene, The Ramones (well, and MC5, who'd been around forever) slammed me upside the head, and I was like a pinball, bouncing from rock to rock. I honestly don't know how I survived from 1974 to today, with all the twists and spins I experienced while I was trying to find my musical focus. I think I've found it, and The Ramones are still very close to my heart, though they don't exist anymore and at least one of the members is dead. They left a legacy, similar to the Sex Pistols (which I could do without, but who nevertheless contributed a huge amount of valid material to the music-pool.) So - music is flux, not anchor (read your Jack Chalker for this one.) It moves, though its roots are firm. We all love different types of music for different reasons, but it's all music. And I love it all, even if sometimes I can't bear to listen to it. |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: Feb 13, 2011 - 16:08 Foot wrote: Great band, marginal song - the 'marriage' with Phil Spector a complete disaster. Old Phil was just starting his glorious decline into the abyss at that time. He's done now. Well Done. |
| Foot | Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 19:55 Great band, marginal song - the 'marriage' with Phil Spector a complete disaster. |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Dec 07, 2010 - 05:03 God I love the Ramones! I love Yes too. Variety is the spice of life, or so I've heard. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 12:00 Hannio wrote: Why? Because at the time the Ramones burst on the scene, we had endured the horrible miasma of 70's disco and prog-rock. If you were around at the time you know what an incredible breath of fresh air they were after years of being tortured with the pretentious and gaudy feculence of Yes on album-rock FM radio.  |
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 11:56 Perhaps the greatest RP coment I've ever seen Well done shutter wrote: The Ramones are to rock...  what the Hanson Brothers are to hockey  |
| WayUpNorth (Windswept Exile) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 11:54 RIP Joey! |
| islander (Seattle) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 11:54 Oddly, when I'm listening to this now I think the tempo needs to be upped just a bit. Certainly not the norm for the Ramones. |
| oenyaw | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 11:52 HEY HO LET'S GO!!! Ramones are always welcome in my world. |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Oct 10, 2010 - 16:44 I think this has to be one of the longest songs they've ever done. I bet they collapsed in exhaustion after they finished it. I still love "Rockaway Beach" best, but this one's fun, too. I love the Ramones. |
| BKardon (Boulder, CO by way of State and Madison) | Posted: Oct 04, 2010 - 21:57 This isn't my favorite from The Ramones, but I would gladly welcome more from them on the RP. |
| dkwalika (Upper Midwest) | Posted: Apr 02, 2010 - 12:51 And those bananas are almost in sync! coffeeadikt wrote:  Always a classic.More Ramones! |
| simon_kogoj (Slovenia) | Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 02:47 drile |
| shutter (You can't get here from there) | Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 07:12 The Ramones are to rock... what the Hanson Brothers are to hockey |
| peacockangel (Phoenix) | Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 07:10 they've got a great DVD out ~ a gazillion little live performances on it |
| FlatCat (Chicago) | Posted: Jan 29, 2010 - 10:36 diazo wrote: Isn't that kind of like saying you love Cubism, but can't stand Picasso? What's wrong with that? I hate Picasso. Come to think of it, I hate cubism, too. |
| FlatCat (Chicago) | Posted: Jan 29, 2010 - 10:34 I heard RAMONa sing. The RAMONs Now how about something by RAy LaMONtagne? |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Jan 29, 2010 - 10:33 This song is pretty cool, along with Blitzkrieg Bop, but yes, the Ramones have always sucked ass and I think deep down they even knew that, but to their credit I don't think they cared!  |