Best Ramones studio album from the 80s and on

Actually, Too Tough to Die trumps Road to Ruin for me, and towers over everything here, although I am quite fond of Pleasant Dreams.

Mondo Bizarro is also surprisingly strong. I really wish they had called it quits there, at a relative high point.

Mondo Bizarro is great.

Acid Eaters - very underrated cover album

'Pleasant Dreams' (Annotated) : Appreciating the Ramones' Overlooked Power-Pop Classic

Bizarrely, I've had "Howling at the Moon" stuck in my head.

mondo bizarrely

i got a CD with Century and Pleasant Dreams on it a while back and especially like the latter, but i think i'm going to throw a vote to Adios Amigos, since it was one of the first non-compilation Ramones albums i ever heard and i have a soft spot for it.

I like the first four up there and Mondo Bizarro, and actually thought the '60s-garage covers one was okay when it came out. I have a sentimental attachment to Too Tough To Die (one of the first albums I ever got paid to write about), but always thought End Of The Century was underrated. I'm gonna go with that, since Bizarro's obviously already getting a bunch of votes.

Yeah I'm going with End Of The Century, love that album, like it better than Road To Ruin.

Even the patchy late 80s albums have some good tracks though.

I think Too Tough to Die might be the most, ugh, "important", in that in shows the Ramones engaging with what they had spawned. And it has Howling at the Moon (great song despite Dave Stewart's best efforts to make it otherwise), Chasing the Night, Mama's Boy, the title track, Daytime Dilemmas. End of the Century has the best songs of any of these records - R'n'R Radio and the peerless Danny Says. Pleasant Dreams has some terrific moments. If it weren't for the fact it sounded so horrible, I'd be tempted to go for Subterranean Jungle, because I love some of the songs. Animal Boy and on I was buying out of duty, though like others I was pleasantly surprised by how much fun Acid Eaters was.

End of the Century hands down

Always thought Pleasant Dreams was really solid, especially "The KKK Took My Baby Away" and "It's Not My Place (In the 9 to 5 World)." I don't own anything after Halfway to Sanity, which I remember as being pretty bad.

My End of the Century's autographed by all four--lined up at Toronto's A&A Records in 1980 to get them. Joey said something that made me laugh as he signed...I've completely forgotten what it was.

Too Tough To Die followed v closely by End Of The Century

too tough to die, just over pleasant dreams, just over end of the century. (the high points on century beat everything else here i think, but there are three or four sort of ho-hum tracks too.)

and this is as good a place as any to link to my pleasant dreams thread. really do love that album.

animal boy has some great stuff too, even aside from "my brain is hanging upside down" -- "somebody put something in my drink," "she belongs to me," "crummy stuff," the title track. and "something to believe in" has a certain ridiculous grandeur. plus of course a great video:

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

looking at all these albums, plus obv the first four, the ramones wrote a really sort of staggering number of good to great songs.

and while i'm posting videos... the shoulda-been-a-number-one record:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmHoXqzy8GU

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Pleasant Dreams for nostalgia reasons.
It was the first Ramones album I bought and I played it to fucking death in the way that I no longer do with any album
And I swear nobody else liked them at the time. At least that's how my 14 year old self felt. But back in 1981/2 the Ramones were really no big deal. Were they?

love end of the century

though for some odd reason "pet semetary" off of brain drain holds some magickal power over me.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Wow, I win. Kinda wish I would've gone with Subterranean Jungle now though -- it deserved to get at least one vote. (Amazed Mondo Bizarro only got one, too, given all the people mentioning it at the beginning of the thread.)

Went with Too Tough To Die. My one and only time seeing the Ramones was on the tour for that album and I was kinda shocked at just how fantastic they were... I mean everyone kinda knows the drill: the Ramones presidential seal behind the stage, the smoke machine going full bore before they start, complete lights-out blackout while the theme from The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly plays until Dee Dee's "1-2-3-Fourer!" and the band SLAMMING into "Psychotherapy" (complete with sirens and the works) and not letting up AT ALL for two dozen or so songs.

Bear in mind that the Minutemen and Black Flag opened up for them and as much as I was still a SST stan, the Ramones made the Flag look like, well, pikers. Apparently LAPD raided the show (this was the same show pictured on the cover of Rollins' Get In The Van), but I had no idea since the Ramones were so full-on and the moshing/slam pit wasn't letting up. It didn't help that beer + the Palladium's wood floor = frictional coefficient of ice, so no matter how determined of a punker you were you had maybe a quarter-turn through the pit before Newtonian mechanics threw you on your ass.

Always regretted not seeing them again, but couldn't do it post-Dee Dee.

Alice decided we were cool parents when she found out we'd seen the Ramones live. (She was about 4 then)

I endorse these poll results.

Mark I've decided you're cool because you've seen the Ramones live.

Catastrophic events that happened on my birthday:

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The Ramones play their last ever gig

Good Joey obit, with a long bit on the greatness of "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg."

And ballads were out.

There's a ballad on the first Ramones record!

"I remember You - ooh ooh oooh ooh."

There's loads!

Animal Boy shafted here. Thinking my vote want counted or something. Eat That Rat was my introduction to the Ramones lol. Thank you WHFS.