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5.0 out of 5 stars
ROCKS! DON'T BUST THE CHOPS! ...BABY., October 29, 2007
BRAIN DRAIN (1989) oughtta be considered a Ramones classic. I hate when people talk about a great rock album and say things like "The only good song is PET SEMETARY." It's simply not true with this album. I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES is both one of the best Ramones songs ever, and also on my list of top ten rock songs of the eighties.
Also, this album has more great songs- song for song- than any albums from the eighties. It rocks out like Road To Ruin. And is far better than any albums they recorded afterwards. It's different than the seventies albums , sure,.. but the band synched perfectly, and created a stellar rock album. ZERO ZERO...rocks, DONT BUST MY CHOPS... awesome, dig the hook, bay-bee; PUNISHMENT FITS and ALL SCREWED UP to me sound just as good as any seventies stuff, only with a little eighties production. But we're talking Red Hot Chilli Peppers eighties, not Journey. Whatever, it still sounds fresh and it sounds like Ramones. The song from that Stephen King movie is probably the most un-Ramones-like song in the mix, but it's still good. Followed by PALISADES PARK... another cool take on some fifties bubble gum that rocks. The rest of the album balances left to right with Dee Dee's aggresive LEARN TO LISTEN and IGNORANCE IS BLISS, sandwiched between Joey Ramone ballads CANT GET YOU OUTTA MY MIND and COME BACK BABY... two songs that foreshadow some of the great tunes that Joey Ramone would do on his own. The Christmas one is good too. All three would be on any Joey Ramone greatest hits package. Should one ever be released. Every song is great. This may be my FAVORITE Ramones album of all. So stop bustin' chops.
*The remaster series doesn't add much, except an alternate version of Pets, but I've often found it much cheaper at other places. You can save money here at Amazon, by just getting the straight version.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
a different side of the Ramones, December 12, 2006
this album is a definite far cry from anything they have done before. it will be a bit hard for the strictly bubblegum fans to accept as a good album. i would say that it has more in common with a Motorhead album than say, Pleasant Dreams or Rocket to Russia. i will ssay that this album sounds like a harder hitting Road to Ruin..or Road to Ruin on heroin. it really is a great album if your in the mood for some hard hitting punk in the vein of an Oi band or something(i guess that is why Captain Oi re-issued it.) Joey does do some interesting things with his voice here.
anyways, i have seen some pretty poor reviews of this album and i think it is absurd. while it is fascinating to know that this same band created the almost too poppy "end of the century," it is also great to see how they do not regress for fans. i mean this is a fascinating era for the Ramones. they all were bitter with each other, marky was back in, dee dee was on his way out. it basically is a glance at a band going through tremendous changes. to the elitists... i mean how many times would you want them to churn out rocket to russia or leave home? a band changes and experiments. as long as they dont succumb to anyone else, they are bound to keep things going greatly.
i recommend this version to collectors. fits in nicely with the first 8 remastered albums and has a nice story, remastered sound, and a bonus of the wonderful pet cemetary.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Thunderous -- last album with Dee Dee, March 8, 2006
Certainly this is not one of the classic Ramones albums, but it has alot going for it just the same;
Bill Laswell produced it and layered the guitars giving it a dense roar.
If like me you are a fan of Marky's drumming you've never heard him hammer it home more so than on this one.
It features later day classic "Pet Semetary".
It was the last album with Dee Dee playing bass (he did continue to write for them after leaving the band).
Besides, in my humble opinion, there are no bad Ramones albums.
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