the RAMONES

[316zombie]

LOVELOVELOVE the ramones! to this day, i am known among my brother's friends as "sheena"!

[Allhallowsday]

Everybody loves RAMONES now.  Everybody knew them then if you were old enough... but "nobody" listened to them.  If you read CREEM or ROLLING STONE back then, they always had a bit about them.  RAMONES got a lot of press.  But, no REAL radio play.  'Course, there were a few of us who listened to PUNK... and MOR radio.  What was once shocking seems now innocent. 

http://youtu.be/yCW7Aw8ugOI
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[HappyGilmore]

Ramones were a band that should've enjoyed the apparent success and financial rewards they seem to be reaping nowadays.  How's that even happen?
Granted I grew up in the '80s and '90s with MTV and not during that initial punk 'explosion' of sorts but, we were exposed to the Heads and Blondie via music videos. 

[RCMerchant]

Believe it or not- when they we're first marketed by Danny Fields, he had them in teen heart throb magazines, right next to Leif Garrett and Shaun Cassidy!

[FatFreddysCat]

Believe it or not- when they we're first marketed by Danny Fields, he had them in teen heart throb magazines, right next to Leif Garrett and Shaun Cassidy!

Dee Dee was supposed to be "the cute one." :D

[RCMerchant]

Believe it or not- when they we're first marketed by Danny Fields, he had them in teen heart throb magazines, right next to Leif Garrett and Shaun Cassidy!

Dee Dee was supposed to be "the cute one." :D

It's hard to imagine.
Not surprising, the band were hired for the film ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL only after Todd Rundgren (who no one remembers now), Cheap Trick, Devo and Van Halen all turned it down.
I can't even imagine RARHS without the Ramones!

[FatFreddysCat]

It's hard to imagine.
Not surprising, the band were hired for the film ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL only after Todd Rundgren (who no one remembers now), Cheap Trick, Devo and Van Halen all turned it down.
I can't even imagine RARHS without the Ramones!

Cheap Trick (who apparently wanted too much $$ as they were at their commercial peak at the time) or Van Halen might have worked, but I could not see DEVO working at all. Can you imagine Riff Randell wearing an "energy dome" hat, rockin' out to "Jocko Homo," and swooning over Mark Mothersbaugh? Nah, me neither. :D

[RCMerchant]

It's hard to imagine.
Not surprising, the band were hired for the film ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL only after Todd Rundgren (who no one remembers now), Cheap Trick, Devo and Van Halen all turned it down.
I can't even imagine RARHS without the Ramones!

Cheap Trick (who apparently wanted too much $$ as they were at their commercial peak at the time) or Van Halen might have worked, but I could not see DEVO working at all. Can you imagine Riff Randell wearing an "energy dome" hat, rockin' out to "Jocko Homo," and swooning over Mark Mothersbaugh? Nah, me neither. :D

Yeah...that don't work! 

[Allhallowsday]

RAMONES were perfect for ROCK N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL !!! 

[RCMerchant]

f**k yeah!

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[HappyGilmore]

Beat on The Brat, but covered by Weird Al.

http://youtu.be/eJBwotLwOV8
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It's pretty straightforward, not a parody.  The accordion really adds to the song.  Al should do more covers. 

[The Burgomaster]

"nobody" listened to them.

I estimate that 75% of the music I listened to in high school was comprised of:

* The Ramones
* Elvis Costello
* Blondie
* The Police
* Devo

[Allhallowsday]

"nobody" listened to them.

I estimate that 75% of the music I listened to in high school was comprised of:
* The Ramones
* Elvis Costello
* Blondie
* The Police
* Devo

And your point?  You think RAMONES sold even half the records the other acts you mention did?  My remark was hyperbolic.   

[lester1/2jr]

 that first Stooges record had some ramones in it. I know Johnny was very in to the New York Dolls and that sort of retro but not Sha na na style of playing

[FatFreddysCat]

Everybody knew them then if you were old enough... but "nobody" listened to them.

I forget where I read it or who said it, but years ago I saw a great quote about the Ramones: "They never sold a lot of records, but the ones they did sell made it into the hands of the right people."

Which is true...think about how many bands they influenced over the years, in just about every genre. So many kids heard a Ramones record, thought to themselves "I can do that," and picked up an instrument.

During the 70s, wherever the Ramones played, a "scene" would suddenly pop up soon afterwards as all the kids who were at the show would start forming their own bands.

One of their most famous gigs was July 4, 1976, in London ...  and if you believe the legends, pretty much everybody who became anybody in British punk was there - members of the Clash, the Damned, the Sex Pistols, etc.

I think Joe Strummer of the Clash said that seeing the Ramones that night made him realize that his own band needed to step up its game, big time.