Ramones

The 1975 Sire Demos   vinyl

(Rhino)

Some kvetch songs are slower, and perhaps less emphatic, than subsequent LP incarnations. So fucking what? The moment captured was pivotal. In uncultured bursts lies portent of a then-looming Rock'n'Roll revolution of the sort sporadically needed. More than signaling the return of popular music brevity and elementary song-structuring, the demos conveyed an amphetemine bubblegum (with skewed outlook) that inspired global multitudes. And that inspiration, to say nothing of the foursomes' mayonnaise tidal wave then in its embryonic hour, led innumerable outsiders to grab up instruments and blueprint their own attacks. There will never be another Ramones.

(These tracks have seen issuance by other labels.)

Recommended: every single song

Video: live in Arturo Vega's loft, 1975

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