 | Ramones End of the Century
3.4
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| Ranking: #30 for 1980 | |
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| 3.0 good | lz41 | August 1st 23 |
'Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio' is a heart-felt classic that sounds like a band preparing to let the curtain fall and step off-stage and 'The Return of Jackie and Judy' sounds like a band showing why they were calling it a day.
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| 3.3 great | Erwann S. STAFF | April 20th 20 |
End of the Century or; when the poppiest punk group meets the craziest pop producer. Spector wanted to impose his legendary Wall of Sound on top of the binary semantics of the Ramones. The association is quite natural as the Ramones' love for surf music and 60s girl groups is not unknown. So, while we have some typical Ramones tropes here (Joey's voice, the punky energy), this sometimes sounds a tad too much like a 60s homage rather than a 1980 Ramones album: the opening track, while very cool on its own, truly sounds like the Ramones compromising to the mad producer. Same goes for the quite cheesy Baby, I Love You cover. However, when the two worlds learn to let each other shine, we have songs like Chinese Rock which is a fire banger, where the pop structure lets the punk yell its message. So overall it's aight with some missteps here and there, but it's a cool album although the formula is spotted quite easily.
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| 0.0 | SmileNerd | September 17th 15 |
*sees the opening track is titled "Do You Remember Rock And Roll Radio"* ... Oh, my. We're surely in for a... special, ride.
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| 1.5 very poor | Peddy29 | February 6th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | gschwen | April 11th 23 |
| 3.3 great | manosg EMERITUS | November 25th 22 |
| 3.0 good | katkac | March 12th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Lvxfra | November 22nd 21 |
| 3.0 good | Pangea | September 11th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | bde1314 | April 12th 21 |
| 3.5 great | IlNotta | November 10th 20 |
| 3.5 great | heck | August 13th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | kb3984 | October 12th 19 |
| 3.5 great | dlbk03 | March 26th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mitch | January 1st 19 |
| 3.0 good | wg98 | August 23rd 18 |
| 2.0 poor | skronk | March 28th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | pjraven | March 9th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | MarcoSMM | December 14th 17 |
| 2.5 average | solrage | October 20th 17 |
| 2.5 average | adios | October 8th 17 |
| 3.5 great | bungy | May 30th 17 |
| 1.0 awful | bSmith | January 17th 17 |
| 3.0 good | manu8a | December 30th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lanas | July 23rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ianman | July 21st 16 |
| 3.5 great | bobby72 | February 12th 16 |
| 2.0 poor | AWOL3 | December 26th 15 |
| 3.5 great | wham49 | September 9th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aion | March 6th 15 |
| 2.5 average | arcane | March 2nd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Lodger | January 28th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Abraxas | January 15th 15 |
| 3.5 great | DrDom | October 24th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Lassie | October 15th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Smevin | August 7th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sithese | February 23rd 14 |
| 3.5 great | cdog215 | November 30th 13 |
| 3.0 good | bulk | November 13th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | LunarF4 | November 4th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Hep Kat | October 27th 13 |
| 3.5 great | WheDie | October 16th 13 |
| 3.5 great | JViney EMERITUS | September 20th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | jambred | July 30th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ulshad | July 3rd 13 |
| 3.0 good | Ugrak | June 12th 13 |
| 3.5 great | tarkus | April 20th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | 13km | March 5th 13 |
| 3.5 great | SamPJ93 | February 14th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | Veritus | January 21st 13 |
| 3.0 good | mzi | December 10th 12 |
| 2.5 average | Bossie | October 8th 12 |
| 1.5 very poor | bobbi | October 6th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | rassiok | July 22nd 12 |
| 3.0 good | mho | July 12th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kriss | November 13th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Yakman | October 19th 11 |
| 3.5 great | divoz | October 4th 11 |
| 3.0 good | true | October 1st 11 |
| 3.0 good | noisy | September 12th 10 |
| 3.5 great | IAJP | August 14th 10 |
| 2.5 average | purvis | April 29th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Balboa6 | January 20th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Egglord | September 15th 07 |
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