![]() After all, as good as this music is, how many times can it be shuffled around on compilations? (And since the skimpy liner notes for this set are cribbed from the Weird Tales box - there is a letter coding to illustrate each of the Ramones albums and which drummers and bassists played on what, but half of the albums with coding aren't represented at all - this can't help feel a little bit like an afterthought.) Nevertheless, anybody looking for a concise collection of the group's basics will not feel let down by this Greatest Hits, which does indeed offer 20 tracks of prime Ramones rock & roll. The world's first punk band acts like an oldies act, trotting out their classics ('Blitzkrieg Bop,' 'I Wanna Be Sedated,' etc.) with an astonishing lack of interest or energy - they really sound like a relic, not a once-revolutionary force. Tracklist 1 Blitzkrieg Bop 2:122 Beat On The Brat 2:323 Judy Is A Punk 1:324 I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend 2:265 Sheena Is. Outro Oh no, oh no I don't want to live my life not again, oh no, oh oh I don't want to live my life not again, oh no no no I don't want to live my life not again. This makes for a tighter, better listen than Loud, Fast Ramones, even if it's hard not to feel that Rhino might have gone to the well one too many times with this release. The Ramones' Greatest Hits Live is no exception to the rule. Track listing 1 Blitzkrieg Bop 2 Beat on the Brat 3 Judy Is A Punk 4 I Wanna Be Your Boyfreind 5 Sheena Is A Punk Rocker 6 Pinhead 7 Commando 8 Rockaway. Unlike 2002's Loud, Fast Ramones, Greatest Hits makes no attempt to cover anything other than the group's peak period: the first 16 songs cover 1976's Ramones through 1980s End of the Century, with a selection apiece from Pleasant Dreams ("The KKK Took My Baby Away"), Subterranean Jungle ("Outsider"), Brain Drain ("Pet Sematary") and Too Tough to Die ("Wart Hog"). 'R.A.M.O.N.E.S. This makes for a tighter, better listen than Loud. Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop Ramones - Beat On The Brat Ramones - Judy Is A Punk Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker Ramones. Although the Ramones have had limited commercial success, they have become a. Appearing one year after Rhino's Ramones box set Weird Tales of the Ramones, and appearing four years after Rhino's first single-disc Ramones collection Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits - which itself appeared after Rhino's excellent double-disc Hey! Ho! Let's Go!: The Anthology - Rhino's 2006 collection Greatest Hits serves up 20 of the group's basics. Ho Lets Go: The Anthology - Rhinos 2006 collection Greatest Hits serves up 20 of the groups basics. It is considered the first punk band ever.
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