Genres: Punk, Alternative/Indie Rock, Punk/New Wave, New York Punk, American Punk, College Rock Active: 70's, 80's, 90's Formed: 1974 in Queens, New York, NY
The Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, New York Dolls, T. Rex, The Stooges, Alice Cooper, The Shangri-Las, Bobby Fuller, Joey Dee, The Beatles, The Ronettes, The Crystals, Bay City Rollers, The Who, The Velvet Underground, Freddy Cannon, Chubby Checker Television, The Sex Pistols, Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders, The Dictators, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, The Clash, Buzzcocks, Blondie, L.E.S. Stitches, The Dickies, Iggy Pop, The Undertones, The Vibrators, Dead Boys, Tuff Darts, Green Day, Patti Smith, The Mumps Hüsker Dü, CPM 22, Sick of It All, The Clash, G.G. Allin, Black Flag, Jello Biafra, Shonen Knife, U.K. Subs, The Donnas, The Celibate Rifles, Chris Mars, Pignoise, The Queers, Sweet Baby, Grant Hart, The Peawees, The Goo Goo Dolls, Nikki & the Corvettes |  |
The Ramones are the first punk rock band. Other bands, such as the Stooges and the New York Dolls, came before them and set the stage and aesthetic for punk, and bands that immediately followed, such as the Sex Pistols, made the latent violence of the music more explicit, but the Ramones crystallized the musical ideals of the genre. By cutting rock & roll down to its bare essentials -- four chords; a simple, catchy melody; and irresistibly inane lyrics -- and speeding up the tempo considerably, the Ramones created something that was rooted in early '60s, pre-Beatles rock & roll and pop but sounded revolutionary. Since their breakthrough was theoretical as well as musical, they comfortably became the leaders of the emerging New York punk rock scene.
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Release: November 27, 2009
Label: Rhino Custom Products
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