Ramones rocket to russia12/31/2023 In 2002, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. “We’re a Happy Family” is a few seconds longer than requested, but it had to make room for “Bali Ha’i” somewhere, didn’t it? Green Day – Teenage Lobotomy (The Ramones cover) This was fine with experimentalists the Residents, who at the time were recording The Commercial Album, consisting of forty songs in forty minutes. In 1980, Morgan Fisher curated an album called Miniatures, where he asked a select group of artists to contribute songs that were one minute long. The Residents – We’re a Happy Family (The Ramones cover) Chicago’s Emily Jane Powers applies her style of recording – what she calls “densely arranged bedroom pop” – to the song, and the results are very pretty and just as endearing as the original. It’s certainly the most popular as a subject for covering. Of all the Ramones’ Mad-Lib “(GIRL’S NAME) Is a (DESCRIPTIVE NOUN)” songs, “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” is arguably the best. Emily Jane Powers – Sheena Is a Punk Rocker (The Ramones cover) This cover of “I Don’t Care” comes from Love and Death, a cobbled-together compilation of the best of their random releases. Their guitar pop was smart and catchy, but they broke up before the decade was out, before releasing a proper debut album. The Flatmates were a noted indie band, one often lumped in with the C-86 movement in England in the 1980s. (If you’d like to check out the rest of the album, you can do so here.) The Flatmates – I Don’t Care (The Ramones cover) This Peekskill, NY band appears on the acoustic tribute album Sheena Is a Folk Rocker with a take on “Locket Love,” a song that gets little love from cover bands for reasons unknown – P&TLL make it clear it’s just as strong as any of the Ramones’ better known classics. Sheena Is a Folk Rocker!? An Acoustic Tribute To The Ramones by Phineas & The Lonely Leaves Phineas and the Lonely Leaves – Locket Love (The Ramones cover) It’s unfortunate that they didn’t have more collaborations, but at least we can enjoy what fruit was borne from the ones they had. Almost twenty years later, Joey and Ronnie collaborated again, as he wrote for and sang on her EP She Talks to Rainbows. She released this cover of “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” in 1980, the same year the Ramones released their cover of “Baby I Love You,” which Ronnie sang with the Ronettes. Ronnie Spector has some nice moments of intertwining with the Ramones over her career. Ronnie Spector – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (The Ramones cover) It’s not a far leap from that to the carefree vibe that Natalie Renoir and DJ Leao have to offer. If any Ramones song would merit the bossa nova treatment, it would have to be “Rockaway Beach.” The original conveys all the exuberance of summer, and the giddy impatience of getting to a place where that exuberance can fully flower. Natalie Renoir & DJ Leao – Rockaway Beach (The Ramones cover) In fact, it’s a big surprise to learn that in order to get to that barroom, the trio would have to drive in all the way from their home base of Philadelphia. The song wouldn’t sound a bit out of place in an old Memphis barroom. Full Blown Cherry – Cretin Hop (The Ramones cover)įull Blown Cherry gets things rolling with a rockabilly take on “Cretin Hop” that’ll make you want to hop some more. Speaking of cover songs, today’s feature a ’60s icon, a ’90s platinum trio, and the sounds of surf, folk, chaos, and many more. And they did two cover songs instead of their usual one. They sounded better than ever, with a production budget nearly twice as much as that of their first two albums combined. They varied their tempos, landing hooks with their slow songs just as easily as with their fast ones. They had perfected their loud fast rules, and were able to expand on them without abandoning them. If Ramones was the Ramones setting the pace, and Leave Home was them duplicating it, then Rocket to Russia was the moment where the Ramones refined their musical approach to an absolute peak. First model walks second model duplicates, then elaborates. Now, this’ll be a straight walk-off, old school rules.
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