Pity the poor Ramones. Where once they led the charge of the punk brigade, da brudders four now eat the dust of ambulance-chasing snobs smitten by avant-funk, the new psychedelia and Spandau Baloney. After four masterpieces of heavy metal, go-go Read More …
These bands achieved their initial notoriety while playing in the same place (an esophagus of a bar called CBGB, in lower Manhattan) and have been lumped together with other habitués of this joint as purveyors of “punk rock.” In their Read More …
The middle section of Simon Reynolds’ recent (and excellent) Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to its Own Past explores the idea that nostalgia in popular music is nothing new. He paints the Ramones (quite rightly) as a group mired in the Read More …
… and will beat you up! Johnny Ramone claims it was an accident– that time he hit the student body president in the balls with his guitar and got an early incarnation of the Ramones banned from the high school talent show. Read More …
