Onstage Joey would often introduce songs as being “a real tearjerker for all you suicidals out there.” This one works especially well on that front with lyrics like “I don’t care about this world” and “I don’t care about that girl.” That’s it. This track is genuinely beautiful and wistful. The twist here? The object of Joey’s affection is “quite insane” yet he doesn’t care! He’d rather she just be herself and not try to be like the other girls. This one also comes off the Leave Home record. Related: “Punk Rock Docs Worth Watching” 3. A huge Beatles fan, Joey hereby spoofs the title of “You’re Gonna Lose that Girl” by composing what could actually be its very grisly sequel. Too ridiculous to be scary, “Chain Saw” moves at a breakneck speed - a perfect song off of their equally perfect debut.Īlthough featured on their second LP Leave Home, this was one of the group’s first songs and apparently secured their record deal with Sire Records. But this tune’s narrator doesn’t stand a chance of ever seeing his girl again - alive, that is. Here is my personal list of the best of the best.Īs the story goes, guitarist Johnny Ramone was a huge fan of horror films and asked Joey to write a song based on one of his favorites: 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (humorously pronounced “mass-a-CREE” so as to work as a rhyme for “took my baby away from me”). They may not be happy love songs but they’re love songs nonetheless. So it seemed fitting to repost this.Īside from providing us with some pretty amazing songs about pinheads, weasels, and sniffing glue - not to mention Nazis, warthogs, and the brain, every Ramones album starting with their self-titled debut in 1976 all the way up to their very last release Adios Amigos an incredible 20 years later, the Ramones could be counted on to provide us one if not two new great love songs written by the band’s frontman and resident obsessive romantic Joey Ramone. While Ramone described himself in the book as an angry person for much of his life, beginning as “the terror of the neighborhood,” he also lets on that his favorite place on earth was Disney World, and when he listened to music, chances were he was listening to Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, or Elvis.Editor’s Note: We lost Joey Ramone April 15, 2001. Other parts of the book detail Ramone’s thoughts on his famously brash personality, his sometimes meticulous nature and musical inspirations.
That was more the tension in the band,” she added, citing a 1994 Christmas card shown in the book that Joey sent Johnny, a gesture Linda said showed how those tensions had thawed toward the end. Did I have something to do with it? Well, yeah, of course, a bit, but musically Joey and Johnny were growing apart.
“When I left Joey to go with Johnny, it was intense, because nobody wanted the band to break up. It also sheds light on the ongoing tensions that took place within the band, and his more than 20-year romance with Linda, who once dated his former friend and bandmate Joey Ramone. The result is a raw telling of Ramone’s life story, from a blue collar New York upbringing playing baseball and roughing up neighborhood kids, to early Ramones gigs with Blondie and The Talking Heads at punk-rock bastion venue CBGBs.
Linda enlisted author and former Black Flag singer, Henry Rollins, as well as her manager, John Cafiero, to put together the 176-page book, which is peppered with photos and collected memorabilia. “He wanted to have his last words because he knew he was dying and he was always kind of a misunderstood character,” Ramone’s wife, Linda Cummings Ramone, said in an interview.
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The book, recently published by Abrams Image, was written from a series of interviews Ramone gave in the final years of his life for the purposes of a memoir. “Commando: the Autobiography of Johnny Ramone,” released nearly 8 years after Ramone, born John Cummings, died of prostate cancer at age 55, reads like a Ramones song: short and to the point, but with plenty of color to keep things interesting. Linda Ramone, the widow of the late punk guitarist Johnny Ramone, poses next to a statue in his likeness, after unveiling it during a ceremony at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, January 14, 2005.
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