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There are some alarming signs that the Ramones are pretty much at the end of the rope, which... can be interpreted differently under different circumstances. When I first heard 'The Return Of Jackie And Judy', I only saw it as a song formally written in the tradition of stuff like 'Peggy Sue Got Married' or all those 'Schoolday' clones of Chuck Berry (if your song was a hit, why not do it again? Sequels are cool!), but too much of a dumb, uninventive mix of 'Judy Is A Punk' and 'Beat On The Brat' to be of any importance. Tradition is fine, but not when it reeks of stagnation. Today, though, I'm more inclined to treat it as a hilarious reinvention of the old motive and admire the way the boys take snippets of the old melodies and make them develop differently - like the 'and oh I don't know why...' thing that segues into '...she wrote that letter' this time instead of serving as the "chorus". Stagnation?
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With the three-chord assault of "Blitzkrieg Bop," The Ramones begins at a blinding speed and never once over the course of its 14 songs does it let up. The Ramones is all about speed, hooks, stupidity, ...Read full review
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The highlight of the extra features is a thirty minute set recorded live in 1980 for Italian TV featuring The Ramones live in Rome. While the text that appears on the screen introducing the songs is messed up, they performance is great and the show is of pretty decent quality. They play through as man of their instantly recognizable songs as fast and furious as they can and seeing them live here is a nice way to offset some of the less than ideal documentary footage.
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Please play the Ramones version of the song in the closing credits. Couldn't the Ramones get credit for once for something they did, without getting ripped off by some f**ing corporate suits!!!
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End Of The Century was not the Ultimate Pop Record Spector truly wanted for the Ramones, even though, according to Stasium, he mixed it three times. It wasn't even classic Spector. On his greatest records, you could hear Spector living in the song, building the recording from the inside out. His stamp on End Of The Centurywas evident only in the cosmetics, not the conception. He loved the idea and sound of the Ramones, but he never connected with the people inside the songs. An awkward nobility pokes through some of the tumult.
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Notes: Take It As It Comes is a DOORS song, covered by THE RAMONES who are joined onstage by Robby Krieger! This is a bootleg performance is captured on a bootleg video tape so quality is shaky at best. Cretin Hop is from a sound check performance from a 1980 concert in Rome, where the band plays in broad daylight in front of a sprawling castle in the background, with barely anyone in attendance. The bulk of the clips on here are night time clips taken from the same show in Rome.
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