Dee Dee Ramone (ft. Joey Ramone): I Am Seeing UFO's (1997)

Sobering thought of the day: all the primary players on this single - Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone (more HERE) and Lux Interior are dead. That NYC scene of the seventies did produce a lot of doomed men. So, while we still mourn the ever-painful loss of dead, talented men today - we also celebrate their ass-kicking with the posting of this low-budget-but-blitzkreiging out-of-print 1997 single.





Dee Dee Ramone: Guitar
Barbara Ramone: Bass
Daniel Rey: Guitar
Marky Ramone: Drums
Joey Ramone: Lead Vocals (1)
Lux Interior: Lead Vocals (2)

01    I Am Seeing U.F.O's    4:04   
02    Bad Horoscope    2:24

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The Damned w/ Joey Ramone: Milton Keynes Bowl, 1988

Granted, our current fixation, Joey Ramone (more HERE), only shows up for the interview and one song on this set but it's a mighty run-at "Blitzkrieg Bop" that could've made a  nice inclusion on the bootleg Joey collection, Faces (See HERE).





As for the rest of this clear-if-small sounding bootleg, it's a reunited Vanian-Scabies-Sensible-James version of The Damned stripped of the synth-goth shtick and ripping through a set list of songs from '76-'80. Good stuff, which, when I dug around a bit, I found originated here. For the Ramones set from this same Festival of Youth go visit Nuzz HERE.





1. See Her Tonite
2. Neat Neat Neat
3. Fish
4. Help!
5. New Rose
6. I Feel Alright
7. I Just Can't Be Happy Today
8. Noise Noise Noise
9. Love Song
10. Smash It Up (Part 1&2)
11. Blitzkrieg Bop (With Joey Ramone)
12. Looking At You
13. The Last Time
14. Pre-Gig Interview  (With Joey Ramone)

 

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Joey Ramone & The Resistance: Live, 1992

Between the Ramones less-than-great Mondo Bizarro and the career-low that was Acid Eaters, Joey Ramone (more HERE) did a solo turn with another one of his all-star bands at a 1993 Rock for Choice benefit concert. It's a fascinating set list with covers of John Lennon ("Gimme Some Truth"), Sam Cooke ("Bring It Home To Me") and, in what would end up being a legacy-defining choice, a moving version of "What a Wonderful Word", long-associated with Louis Armstrong. Then there's "Fascists Don't Fuck, They Just Screw" a never-recorded attack on the the right-wing in his country (and his band!). The show was clearly meant as a statement that Joey was bigger then the Ramones and, as such, it makes you wonder would've happened if he'd gone solo at this time instead of in the final years before his untimely passing.






Track 01 Announcement
Track 02 Censorshit
Track 03 It's Gonna Be Alright
Track 04 Gimme Some Truth [J Lennon]
Track 05 Bring It Home To Me [Sam Cooke]
Track 06 Wonderful World [L Armstrong]
Track 07 Fascists Don't Fuck, They Just Screw **
Track 08 I Wanna Be Sedated *

Lineup:
Joey Ramone - lead vocals
Daniel Rey - guitar
Al Maddy - guitar
Andy Shernoff - bass
Joe McGinty - keyboard
Marky Ramone - drums
Dee Dee Ramone - guitar *
Joan Jett - guitar *
Backing singers are Andrea Berg, Heike Sander and Katja Eppstein **

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Mean Jeans: On Mars (2012)

A while back the Pop Punk Message Board lit up over a troll-ish thread claiming that all the bands that have followed the Exploding Hearts glam/garage/pop/punk style (The Biters, Mother's Children, the entirety of the Dirtnap catalog et al) were tuneless dullards. As befits an internecine battle, fans of other variants of  pop-punk ( i.e. the more Lookout -styled, Ramones-y style) piled on, while others defended this surprisingly resilient sub-genre. 

One band who's aiming to bridge this tiniest of divides is Portland's Mean Jeans, a band who records for Dirtnap Records but also appear on the brand-new compilation, The Thing That At Lawrence Livermore, put together by the eponymous former Lookout Records mogul.

 

The new Mean Jeans album, On Mars, (stream here) tones down the Ramonesmania just a bit and ups the glam/swagger of their fellow Dirtanppers. Of course, with their sci-fi themes, fancied-up arrangements and layered hooks (see "Life on Mars" for further proof),the Mean Jeans just might birth their own soon-to-be-fought-over sub-sub-genre.

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Is this micro-rift amongst the pop-punk faithful of any importance?

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Joey Ramone & The Godchildren of Soul: Rockaway Beach

The Godchildren of Soul were a a short-lived (?) aggregation that recorded one album with assistance from all sorts of artists from The Klezmatics, to Sam Moore to The Sugarhill Gang to a team-up of Joey Ramone (more HERE) and former former Chairman of the Board leader, General Johnson. The results are a little synthetic (everything about this record screams 1991) but very fun.



 

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