Favorite Ramones studio album (pick only ONE)

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No ties, no compilations. Just ONE of their original studio albums.

My pick:

Leave Home

― Johnathan Redgers (Pearl Hooch), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

End of the Century!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Rocket to Russia

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

debut.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

s/t

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Brain Drain

― Fjord Spellman (fjord), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Leave Home

― Phil Knight (PhilK), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

rocket

― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Leave Home.

― a. begrand (a begrand), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

road to ruin

― outdoor_miner (outdoor_miner), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Whichever one had Blizkraig Bop on it. (I think that's the debut?) Charlotte and I had our wedding band play it. (Now introducing for the first time as husband and wife... Oi. Oh. Let's Go. Oi. Oh. Let's Go.)

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

s/t

― 69 (plsmith), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Boring I know but the first, closely followed by 'Leave home', followed by 'Rocket....' Weird eh?

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

i really can't choose between the first lp and rocket to russia.

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

PLEASANT DREAMS
(anti-canonical shocker)

not sure if it's actually my favorite, but it was the first one i bought so i'm sentimentally attached. and it's great: we want the airwaves, kkk took my baby away, 7-11, she's a sensation, c'mon now, you didn't mean anything to me...it's at least their most underappreciated.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'd second 'End of the Century' - the studio set I actually play most. The early stuff is all great, but I usually stick on 'It's alive' for that.

I was surprised by quite how much fun the last disc of the 'Weird Tales' box is, with all the daft covers. I'd stopped following the albums by then.

― Soukesian (Soukesian), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

In the past I've always upped Rocket To Russia on the ground that it uses the greatest variety of their classic tricks while slowing down the least (with "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" and "I Don't Care" being the only real duds). And I think I still do. But somehow it seems like a combination tape of the best stuff from Leave Home and Road To Ruin would actually contain all of my favorite Ramones songs. Funny how that works.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Leave Home

― francisf (aaron ef.), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm with ya gypsy. I bought Pleasant Dreams when it was a 'new' album. The crucial three were before my time - I remember they were in my local HMV for years.though Nobody boughht them. I swear.
The first three though had pure comedy on them. I turned thirty before I realised how hilarious da Brudders were. I used to take them way too seriously.

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

Rocket

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Leave Home

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Leave Home.

(which is doing rather well on this little poll, I see)

― Jeff K (jeff k), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Not being weak or owt and pandering to the masses but on reflection this looks foookin goood. My version does not have 'Now I wanna sniff some glue Pt 2 ' on it though ie 'Carbona'
1. "Glad to See You Go"
2. "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" – 1:38
3. "I Remember You" – 2:15
4. "Oh Oh I Love Her So" – 2:03
5. "Carbona Not Glue" – 1:52
6. "Suzy Is a Headbanger" – 2:08
7. "Pinhead" (Dee Dee Ramone) – 2:42
8. "Now I Wanna Be a Good Boy" – 2:10
9. "Swallow My Pride" (Joey Ramone) – 2:03
10. "What's Your Game" – 2:33
11. "California Sun" (Henry Glover / Morris Levy) – 1:58
12. "Commando" – 1:51
13. "You're Gonna Kill That Girl" – 2:36
14. "You Should Never Have Opened That Door" – 1:54

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Gotta say R2R, which I was lucky enough to hear (and shortly thereafter obtain a shitty cassette recording of) mere weeks after it was released, thanks to an uncle who was surely the one of the first converts in tiny Garson, Ontario. My first exposure to punk-rock proper, which I'd heard of (thought it had something to do with Kiss) but not actually heard. Didn't expect it to be so catchy, or have funny cartoons on the back cover.

― Myonga Von Boring (Monty Von Byonga), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

the one-note guitar solo in "i wanna be sedated" is possibly johnny's finest moment.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

(also i love every record mentioned so far, and i'm a little sad nobody's thrown in too tough to die)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

Road to Ruin is the first thing I heard (checked it out of the public library on vinyl sometime in the late '80s), and I still love it the most.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

I admire everyone for being able to choose one; I can't. Favorite song lately, though: "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World."

― without me, it was tie! (Rrrickey), Saturday, 10 February 2007 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

Gotta say R2R,

Brilliantly ambiguous! The funny cartoons bit does give it away though.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

oh, i got fooled. didn't notice he said the back cover. the other r2r has cartoons on the front cover.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

i've only got the "2 for 1" versions of the first four albums on CD, but does the regular leave home not have "sheena is a punk rocker"?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

the original version didn't, i think, but it was rereleased with it when it became a kind-of hit.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

Brilliantly ambiguous!

Ha, shoulda thought that over!

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, and "Carbona" was supposedly dropped because of a threatened lawsuit.
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― without me, it was tie! (Rrrickey), Saturday, 10 February 2007 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Rocket To Russia

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Leave Home.

― everything, Saturday, 27 August 2016 09:15 (nine years ago)

nine years pass...

I rarely post about such things, but this one's worth noting: 50 years ago today.

https://i.postimg.cc/26YpG9Hc/first.jpg

― clemenza, Thursday, 23 April 2026 18:10 (one month ago)

And none of them alive to see it.

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 23 April 2026 19:03 (one month ago)

It's not alive!

― Galactic Poetaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 April 2026 00:14 (four weeks ago)

A while back, when I was gathering various 1970s singles on to a homemade compilation, I threw this album on in the midst of it. Given how so many of the '70s cuts I had been gathering were mainstream top 40 hits, it really stood out how revolutionary and shocking the Ramones would've sounded if you put them on the radio for an unsuspecting listener.

Listening to the debut again yesterday, I busted out laughing at "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue." There's some ancient concert review somewhere (I think by Robert Palmer) where the critic was seeing them for the first time and couldn't figure out if this was meant to be a joke. I thought about that, how again an unsuspecting listener might go to a show in early 1976 and the think "what is this?" as they rip through one song after another, and then all of a sudden "Now I wanna sniff some glue! Now I wanna have something to do! All the kids wanna sniff some glue! All the kids want something to do!"

― birdistheword, Friday, 24 April 2026 20:21 (four weeks ago)

god bless them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwsVWZ-c8Eo

― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Friday, 24 April 2026 20:43 (four weeks ago)

@BlueOceanBelow
5 years ago
This is like having film of cavemen discovering fire.

― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Friday, 24 April 2026 20:46 (four weeks ago)

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