100 Songs that name check The Ramones

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1) Mr. T Experience - End of the Ramones

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"R.A.M.O.N.E.S:" by Motorhead

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"Chinese Rocks" by the Heartbreakers (not sure if that counts, actually)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I can only hope and pray that there's a Wesley Willis song about the Ramones. Probably called "The Ramones".

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Human League "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of"
New York, ice cream, TV, travel, good times
Norman Wisdom, Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, good times
These are the things
These are the things
The things that dreams are made of

― briania (briania), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Bet Tommy, Marky, Richie & CJ are super-glad they're not mentioned in that song.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Wann Be Your Joey Ramone" Sleater-Kinney

― Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Rite Of Passage by The Wolfhounds kicks off with a hilarious Joey sample.

― mzui, Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Joey Ramoney by Helen Love
Debbie loves Joey by Helen Love

actually pretty much every song by Helen Love

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The wonderful, wonderful "Johnny and Dee Dee" by the late, great Australian trio the Eastern Dark.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i am sure the huntingtons have songs about the ramones.

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"White Trash" by Junior Senior

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"29 x The Pain" - The Wildhearts

― undavid, Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Heard Ramona Sing" by Black Francis

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

13. "The Return of Jackie and Judy" by The Ramones

"Jackie is a bookie, Judy's taking loans
They both came up to New York
Just to see the Ramones"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

14. The Beastie Boys sample "Suzy Is A Headbanger" in "Car Thief"(? - i think, anyway somewhere on Paul's Boutique)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

15. and there's also the line "Why you wanna beat that brat with a bat?" on Paul's Boutique!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(i guess they aren't exactly name-checks but come on, you want 100!?)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

16. Wayne County, "Max's Kansas City"

― the todster (the todster), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"She had her picture in Rolling Stone,
she was third from the left behind Joey Ramone
(chorus) See her running around
she's the girl about town now you heard of..."

I was going to start a thread asking if someone could identify the above quoted song I heard on a college radio station 6 years ago, presumably titled "Girl About Town." It has indie girl vocals and a retro electro pop sound but I think it's credited to a solo artist.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Helen Love - Girl About Town. I remember it from Peel.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

17. Guitar Wolf, "Kung Fu Ramone"

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

18. Boredoms, "Noise Ramones"

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

not a song, but the band Blitzkrieg Bop, early UK punk...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Here you are, Shakey:

The Ramones
by Wesley Willis

You can really rock it out.
You are my special punk band.
You are the best in the long run.
You can really rock your ass off.

THE RAMONES!!!
THE RAMONES!!!
THE RAMONES!!!
THE RAMONES!!!

I love you a lot in the long run.
The Ramones is excellent.
I like you a lot in the long run.
You are the punk band king.

THE RAMONES!!!
THE RAMONES!!!
THE RAMONES!!!
THE RAMONES!!!

The Ramones really whoops a camel's ass.
You really whoop the horse's ass.
You are the punk band king.
The Ramones is excellent.

Rock over London,
Rock on Chicago.

American Airlines - we mean business in Chicago.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

19. Shonen Knife: Shonen Knife (712)

― thatclam (fakegiraffe), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh...

Milky Wimpshake: Chomsky V Ramones

Reading Noam Chomsky
while listening to the Ramones
makes perfect sense to me
because I reall need them both
I wanna read about media distortion
of US foreign policy
but I also need dumb stuff
like Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee
I need Noam Chomsky...and also the Ramones

Sitting in Queens
eating re-fried beans
could make it hard sometimes
to care about the Lebanese
And that's not an excuse
to shrug responsibilties
but we all need simple truths sometimes
Ramones provide that for me

I need Noam Chomsky...and also the Ramones

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Great lyric, but uh . . . the Ramones were dumb?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"My First Rock Concert" by Rheostatics

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 17 September 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

also "Me and Stupid" by Rheostatics

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 17 September 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

T.C.P by the Boys off the "Alternative Blockbusters" album.I think the chorus goes something like this
"Johnny,Joey,Tommy,Dee Dee"
"T.C.P will keep you pimple free"
Ah for the days of short sweet silly pop.And by the way the most important Ramone is still breathing.Tommy does not get nearly enough credit.They may have recorded some great songs after he left but never another great album.They went from being a pop band that played really loud & fast to a punk band that played pop.A crucial difference that led to the Ramones playing demi-metal & hardcore(Dee Dee singing???).You can hear it in live recordings also.Marky just raced thru the material & as the band played faster live they lost sight of the melodies & the songs playing them all as one endless blur..Man they were always about the tunes to me.Maybe it would have happened anyway but i always was surprised nobody else seemed to notice.After about 1985 it was like seeing a punk version of the Mike Love Beach Boys live.Just sad.Flame me if you will but i saw these guys in 77/78/79 when they meant something & there was a world of difference.Sad about the guys though.They really were kinda cursed with the worst luck

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Jazzbo - you wrote that yourself, didn't you...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost myself.

Classic Ramones line up = "1 2 3 4 gzzzz" etc

The Ramones I saw (last UK gig, Marky drums) = "1 2 3 4 (pause) gzzzz"

I mean, yeah Marky was the longest drummer, but you know....

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"T.C.P by the Boys off the "Alternative Blockbusters" album...."

Damn! You beat me to it!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"See the Constellation" by They Might Be Giants samples Dee Dee's 1234 count-in.

― everything, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Courtney Love's "But Julian, I'm a Little Bit Older Than You" pays tribute to the Ramones by borrowing the "hey gabba gabba" thing.

― I'm American, Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sol Da Caparica" by Peste & Sida - a cover of "California Sun", with different, portuguese lyrics - mentions the Ramones blasting on the tape deck. I'm guessing they heard their version first.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the prissteens' "devastated" has the line "i wanna be sedated" in the bridge.

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGPTFZ-fxM&feature=related

― brio, Saturday, 10 September 2011 11:59 (fourteen years ago)

ramones self-references:
The Return of Jackie and Judy - "They both came up to New York just to see The Ramones"
Ramona - "Hey Johnny, hey Dee Dee, little Tom and Joey..."
Danny Says - "Listening to Sheena on the radio..."
Chinese Rock - "Somebody call me on the phone/says hey hey is Dee Dee home?"

― brio, Saturday, 10 September 2011 12:12 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evth7zzG6ac

― brio, Saturday, 10 September 2011 12:23 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUYYuB1ksAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W-UGdCaJVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPANK_2ALo

My first band was a Ramones tribute band :/

― Circlework de Soleil (S-), Saturday, 10 September 2011 13:32 (fourteen years ago)

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