Album Review: The Ramones by The Ramones

Author(s): Chris Jones

Publication year: 2007

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/g3gb/

Summary

Review of The Ramone's first album, The Ramones, released in 1976.

Excerpt

Dumb, crude, three-chord thrash? Yes. Fast, exhilarating and brand new? Yes. Intelligent, boundary smashing and woefully underrated? Definitely. The Ramones were all of these things and more. Like a film’s opening credits their first album contains everything that their later career was to offer, and in 1976 nothing else sounded quite like it.