no worries -- only peeps i'm hatin' on are the asscracka mofo bastiches that start hammering on roofs at eight fucking thirty in the morning... =)

hughugkisskiss!

Me too.

i'm with you there

i do like the phil spector-produced stuff, but for the most part, i'd much rather listen to the likes of Sham 69

With you. Punk lite. And they called Husker Du rip-off artists. Feh.

...Like it or not, all you want, but 'irrelevant'? Hardly. I quoth:

"‘All the better-known punk groups that followed - The Sex Pistols, The Clash, whoever - they would be the first ones to say that without The Ramones the whole punk movement never would have happened,’ has commented Spin magazine editor-in-chief Alan Light."

I think 'spawning off an entire genre of music' is one of those things that deserves respect for the enormity of the action, myself, but I realize not everyone agrees. Still, hardly irrelevant. ;)

There are several remaining Ramones. The main 3 have died off. Left remaining are CJ Ramone (the bassist who briefly replaced DeeDee when he left for a bit), and several drummers such as Richie, Tommy, and Marky (I'm probably missing one).

BTW, if you'd like to experiment with your appreciation of the Ramones, see "The End of the Century" which is the new documentary about the band. It gives a lot of insight of how dysfunctional they were and how the band stayed together so long.

I wouldn't know a Ramones song if I heard one. Any of them.

HERESY IT IS!

The Ramones are super keen. FOOLS BETTER RECOGNIZE.

I never owned a Ramones CD either.. maybe thats because most of their discography came out before cd's existed. But i dont suppose any of you youngsters would know anything about vinyl, or NY punk, or anything else that might have to do with why you look the way you do, or what its actually like to use some artistry with your wardrobe instead of picking the sale item of the week off the rack at Hot Topic.

When I first heard 'rock and roll high school' I thought it was from the Grease soundtrack... I mean if you can mistake it for the Grease soundtrack, is it really punk!? When you stand it next to Jello Biafra's warbling shriek?

Sad though when a greasy counterculture icon dies, especially so young, at any rate.

I feel the same way, only about all music.

the ramones suck. all punk sucks, really, except for DK.

The Nutley Brass covering the Ramones was pretty cool.....

I'm with you there. I have always liked their music in small doses but I have never been completely "ga-ga"* over em (or is that "gabba gabba hey!")

But as people I think they are the coolest. I got to eat breakfast with them when Marky took the whole audience of "Alex Bennet's live 105 morning show" to the little shop next door. I got to have waffles, and talk comic books with marky and joey. BTW, Joey (R.I.P.) is the ugliest motherfucker I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. seriously

but yeh...

On the same note... I wanna drop a similar bomb.
I've never liked Frank Zappa. Still don't. Really.

All my friends love him, I listen.... I don't get it. Sounds like someone raided my parents LP collection. Maybe I'm missing the "obviously he's a musical genius" gene, I dunno. His music does nothing for me. And at times when I'm subjected to his music, it has an adverse effect and makes me want to shoot the stereo. And why the fuck does everyone who likes him want to force that shit down your throat? I swear, it's like a fucking cult. They want...no... they "need" to play for me every fucking lousy album cut, show me some god damn grainy bootleg video, tell me some essentailly unimportant story how he has changed their life. Quirky experimental musician, yes... crazy cult messiah...possibly. I have met him very briefly (5 seconds of hello) and I did have dinner with his daughter Moon a few times. Very nice people. R.I.P. Frank.


* It always makes me giggle when people use the the expression "ga-ga". In Tagalog, it means stupid or retarded.