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Ramones: Pleasant Demos (1981)

A pleasant find indeed this one. These are the early '81 demos for what may be the Ramones pop-iest album, Pleasant Dreams. NONE of these demos appear on Rhino's 2002 re-issue of Pleasant Dreams. These demos do demonstrate that this was going to be a pop album, whether Graham Gouldman manned the board or not, due to the heavy presence of Joey and his songs. The sound quality is good, if a little box-y, and the track selection perfect for us fanatics that already bought the real thing!





Pleasant Dreams Demos
NY, Jan-Feb 1981

01 Sitting in My Room
02 She's a Sensation
03 She's a Sensation(take 2)
04 Yeah, Yeah
05 7-11
06 Don't Go
07 This Business Is Killing Me
08 Wasn't Looking For Love
09 You Sound Like You're Sick
10 The KKK Took My Baby Away
11 All's Quiet on the Eastern Front
12 Come On Now

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Ramones: Live at The Palladium, 1979 (FM)

 It's the end of the seventies, the Ramones are about to unleash the more carefully-constructed End of the Century album on an unprepared world but things on the stage are still a pure forward motion, as this soundboard recording from New year's Eve 1979 proves. Critics and fans alike have tepid feelings about End of the Century but I consider it the last piece of their golden era. What about you?






THE RAMONES - 1-2-3-4 DIE
Live at The Palladium, New York - December 31, 1979
Stereo Soundboard :: Recording 320Kbps.

01 Blitzkrieg Bop
02 Teenage Labotomy
03 Rockaway Beach
04 I Don't Want You
05 Go Mental
06 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
07 I Wanna Be Sedated
08 I Just Want To Have Something To Do
09 She's The One
10 This Ain't Havana
11 I'm Against It
12 Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
13 Havana Affair
14 Commando
15 Needles And Pins
16 I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
17 Surfin' Bird
18 Cretin Hop
19 All The Way
20 Judy Is A Punk
21 California Sun
22 I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
23 Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
24 Pinhead
25 Do you Wanna Dance?
26 Suzy Is A Headbanger
27 Let's Dance
28 Chinese Rock
29 Beat On The Brat
30 We're A Happy Family
31 Bad Brain
32 I Wanted Everything

Ramones-maniacs:

What's your take on End of the Century?
Do you wanna hear MORE MORE MORE Ramones rarities?



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Ramones: Live at the Old Waldorf, '78 (FM)

Yesterday we talked about the Ramones live albums and posted a raging show from '76 (see HERE). This show, a clear-sounding FM broadcast recorded  just a month after the recording of It's Alive, is a scorching set of songs from the first three albums - what many consider the band's peak.





THE RAMONES
OLD WALDORF,
SAN FRANCISCO,CALIFORNIA,USA
JANUARY 31,1978
EARLY SHOW

1-Rockaway Beach >
2-Teenage Lobotomy
3-Blitzkrieg Bop
4-I Wanna Be Well
5-Glad To See You Go
6-Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
7-You're Gonna Kill That Girl
8-I Don't Care
9-Sheena Is A Punk Rocker >
10-Havana Affair >
11-Commando
12-Here Today Gone Tomorrow
13-Surfin' Bird >
14-Cretin Hop
15-Listen To My Heart >
16-California Sun >
17-I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You >
18-Pinhead
19-Crowd/Radio Announcers
20-Do You Wanna Dance? >
21-Oh Oh I Love Her So >
22-Today Your Love Tomorrow The World
23-Crowd/Radio Announcers
24-We're A Happy Family >
25-Suzy Is A Headbanger >
26-Let's Dance

Ramones-maniacs:

four, five six seven

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Ramones: Blitzkreig '76

Yeterday, I bought two live Ramones albums.
First it was Greatest Hits Live (with "'Spiderman" and "Any Way You Want It" as bonus tracks) for $3.50, then the double CD version of Loco Live (paid for in trade). Partly, this is a sign of degenerative addiction, scavenging for a fix from more and more dubious sources and partly it's a re-assessment of the band's later days.
I won't deny that, like Bob Dylan, relentless touring did the band's reputation a lot of damage in the nineties. While Dylan disillusioned a lot of his fans by re-arranging songs on the fly, the Ramones lost a lot of fans by just playing ever faster.
Now I see a pride in Dylan's refusal to pander to the crowds and in the Ramones refusal to become just another boring rock band striving for validation. The Ramones and Dylan made the culture come to them and they didn't make it easy.
Of course, whatever your judgement of their nineties roadwork, Dylan, with the "Royal Albert Hall" Concert and the Ramones with It's Alive did put out two of the greatest concert albums in history.
So with that talk out of the way, let us turn to the Ramones of '76, ripping up the clubs of America and kicking off a revolution.This show, still the Tommy-Johnny-Dee Dee-Joey line-up, is an excellent oundboard recording  - enjoy, fellow Pinheads!





May 12, 1976 (or May 21, 1976)
The Club, Cambridge, MA
Soundboard

01 - Blitzkrieg Bop
02 - I Remember You
03 - Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
04 - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
05 - 53rd & 3rd
06 - Havana Affair
07 - California Sun
08 - Judy Is a Punk
09 - I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
10 - Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
11 - Beat On The Brat
12 - Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
13 - Swallow My Pride
14 - Glad To See You Go
15 - Chain Saw
16 - Listen To My Heart
17 - Babysitter
18 - Oh Oh I Love Her So
19 - Commando
20 - Let's Dance

Ramones-maniacs:

One, two, three, four

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