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The Ramones

Leave Home

  • AMG Review of Leave Home

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    Stephen Thomas Erlewine
    All Music Guide

    Of course the Ramones' second album, Leave Home, is simply more of the same -- 14 songs, including one oldie ("California Sun"), delivered at breakneck speed and concluding in under a half-hour. The Ramones have gotten slightly poppier, occasionally delivering songs like "I Remember You" that are cloaked neither in irony nor seedy ock & roll chic. Still, the biggest impressions are made by the cuts that strongly recall the debut, whether it's the ersatz Beach Boys of "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker," the singalong of "Pinhead," or the warped anthems "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" and "Commando." Song for song, it's slightly weaker than its predecessor, but the handful of mediocre cuts speed by so fast that you don't really notice its weaknesses until after it's all over.

Gabba Gabba Hey!
over 2 years ago

Maybe my favorite Ramones song. It has all the compnents. Buzzsaw guitars, less than two minutes long, Sadistic poppy lyrics. What else do you need?

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100 days and 100 years
over 2 years ago

Strange things in the office !100 days old is the computer pictured...and 100 years old is the table underneath...see the drawer's handle detail.Usual 1760×1320 – > 320×240 resizeNo bosses, no rags, no needles…Universalis Electric Bar has the biggies.

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Gabba Gabba Hey!
over 2 years ago

Maybe my favorite Ramones song. It has all the compnents. Buzzsaw guitars, less than two minutes long, Sadistic poppy lyrics. What else do you need?

More >
100 days and 100 years
over 2 years ago

Strange things in the office !100 days old is the computer pictured...and 100 years old is the table underneath...see the drawer's handle detail.Usual 1760×1320 – > 320×240 resizeNo bosses, no rags, no needles…Universalis Electric Bar has the biggies.

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