rayc
retroreprobate
Greg,
End of the Century did get some grief didn't it?
End of the Century did get some grief didn't it?
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
And Combat Rock!
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
I sold out but no one bought it.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
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Greg_L
Banned
Not because anyone thought they sold out. The grief behind that record is the production. Great songs, but coming from the bare bones album before it, End of the Century was kind of shocking. Spector and Ramones are two complete opposite worlds that should never combine. Spector chased them, and being fans, they gave it a shot. The Ramones from day-one wanted to be big. If they sold out, they did it from their very first rehearsal. They were just optimistically naive. They thought their first album was gonna blow up the world, then the second, then the third, and so on. They tried and tried and tried. It just never happened. Their sound never really changed though. They didn't "sell out" in the way of making wholesale changes chasing a big hit. They got a little harder and heavier as they aged and got better at what they did, but you can listen to their very first album and their very last album, and there's not much difference. And now, they're dead, and more popular than ever.
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
That truly is the key to success...
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
OK ... You first.
Somehow, Henry, I don't think it'll work out that way...but you never know!
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
It is kinda sad that so many artist never really enjoy their susses duo to this after they die they become more popular than ever scenario.
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Greg_L
Banned
I'm selfishly glad the Ramones and their ilk never got big during their day. I was a ratty 13 yr old kid in the burbs wearing Ramones and Black Flag t-shirts and no one knew who the fuck they were. While my peers were listening to flat out garbage like Skid Row and Van Hagar, I was happily bopping along to the soothing sounds of punk rock and early hardcore. I got sent home from school for wearing a Dead Kennedys t-shirt meanwhile other kids were wearing Guns n Roses T's depicting a woman that had gotten raped by an alien robot thing. Lol. I would have HATED to have those same IROC driving tools listening to the same bands as me. Nowadays kids wear Ramones T's while having never heard a single note from them. All you gotta do is die.....
rayc
retroreprobate
I made a cassette recording of It's Alive the day I got the LP, about 2 days after it was released in Oz, took it to the pub & played it there. After about 3 songs the publican canned us so we bought more schooners of Reschs & sat in the car part to listen to it twice. It's probably the most borrowed and tape recorded vinyl in my collection.
Released in 79 so I'd have been 22 give or take 6 months and working casually. Old by your standards Greg but still young enough.
I loved EOTCentury = great songs indeed.
Released in 79 so I'd have been 22 give or take 6 months and working casually. Old by your standards Greg but still young enough.
I loved EOTCentury = great songs indeed.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
remembering school days ... I remember the first time some of the ladies wore no bras to school. good times.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
I know that you mean the Ramones and not The Ozark Mountain Dardevils that released an album with the same title in the same year.
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Greg_L
Banned
It's Alive is pure badassedness. I was 4 at the time. Lol. If only I had a time machine....
This shit still gives me goosebumps. Pure american rock and roll.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Great concert huh?
Good to see that the vocal microphone of choice was the 57!
And what was that 6 overheads on the drums?
Good to see that the vocal microphone of choice was the 57!
And what was that 6 overheads on the drums?
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Greg_L
Banned
Isn't that how yall did it in the 70's? Stick mics everywhere? I've seen some Who footage from that time period and Moon's kit was the same way.
I love that mix though. I listen to that album all the time. The bass and guitar is just an assault of awesomeness. Johnny Ramone doesn't get enough credit for what he did. No one played like that up to that point. Now everyone does it.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Am sure that some of those microphones where for the recording of the show others where for the live aspect of it.
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
Hey rayc....I've heard these before, all at least once when they went through the clinic, but just listened again. When you said "classic rock" I guess I pictured some Foreigner-sounding thing just cuz of how that tag's usually used. While I'm not sure the "classic rock" says it all here, it definitely sounds like a collaboration between people with different tastes....Who wrote the lyrics, you or joey?
famous beagle
Well-known member
What's the one song of theirs that I would like if I liked any? I've tried to make it through "Blitzkrieg Bop" before, but I just end up yawning by the second verse. Is there another song that's like ... "if you don't like this song, then you just don't get them" or something?
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Greg_L
Banned
Yeah, "Blitzkrieg Bop".