who are the ramones?

Answer 1

one of the best rock groups ever..so i think but
Everyone knows that, even the poor, blind saps who never loved the band. But the Ramones were many things, and gloriously so, from the moment of their inception in Forest Hills, New York, in 1974, until their final concert, #2,263, in Los Angeles on August 6, 1996.

They were prolific - releasing 21 studio and live albums between 1976 and 1996 - and professional, typically cutting all of the basic tracks for one of those studio LPs in a matter of days. They were stubborn, a marvel of bulldog determination and cast-iron pride in a business greased by negotiation and compromise. And they were fun, rock n' roll's most reliable Great Night Out for nearly a quarter of a century. Which seems like a weird thing to say about about a bunch of guys for whom a show, in 1974 or '75, could be six songs in a quarter of an hour.

The Ramones were also first: the first band of the mid-'70's New York punk rock uprising to get a major-label contract and put an album out; the first to rock the nation on the road and teach the British how noise annoys; the first new American group of the decade to kick the smug, yellow-bellied **** out of a '60s superstar aristrocracy running on cocaine-and-caviar autopilot.

Above all, the Ramones were pop: stone believers in the Top 40 7-inch-vinyl songwriting aesthetic; a nonstop hit-singles machine with everything going for it - hammer-and-sizzle guitars and hallelujah choruses played at runaway- Beatles-velocity - except actual hits. According to an August 1975 article in England's Melody Maker about the crude, new music crashing through the doors of a former country-and-bluegrass bar in lower Manhattan named CBGB, the local press was already hailing the Ramones as - get this - "potentially the greatest singles band since the Velvet Underground." A peculiar compliment since the Velvets' own few 45s were all crushing radio bombs.

But there was one thing you could never, ever say about the Ramones: that they were dumb. In their time, in their brilliantly specialized way, the Ramones - the founding four of Johnny (guitar), Joey (voice), Tommy (drums), and Dee Dee (bass); along with Marky, who spent 15 years and 11 albums behind the drums beginning with "Road To Ruin" and who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the original four; - later followed by CJ, who stepped out of the Marine Corps and into Dee Dee's king-sized sneakers in 1989; and Richie, who kept the beat while Marky was on hiatus between '83 and '87 - were the sharpest band on the planet. Fully evolved as musicians and songwriters. Confident in their power and the importance of what they had.

The atomic-mono impact of Johnny's Mostrite guitar; Joey's commanding, sour-Queens vocal delivery; the unity of wardrobe and identity; right down to the original, collective songwriting credits and the mutually assumed surname - they were the result of a very simple philosophy. As Tommy puts it: "Eliminate the unneccesary and focus on the substance." That is precicesly what the group did on every record it ever made, on every stage it ever played.

The Ramones' place in rock 'n' roll history was already assured by 1978 with their first three albums: Leave Home, and Rocket To Russia, all made in the span of 18 months, between February 1976 and the fall When it was time to make records, Tommy says, "our art was complete." The art was the combined product four strangely aligned personalities-all living within shouting distance of each other in the conservative, middleclass enclave of Forest Hills, where their mutual needs as fledgling musicians and bored delinquents far the mess of differences and civil wars that could never quite bust them apart. Once a Ramone, always a Ramone.

Ramones - released April 23, 1976; mixed in its entirety in one, continuous ten-hour session, with discreet separation of Johnny's guitar and Dee Dee's bass in each speaker, a nod to the retro-stereo sound of early Beatles LPs. Joey: "I wrote 'Beat On The Brat' about the spoiled brats in Queens. That chord change at the top of the song comes directly from bubblegum songs-'Chewy Chewy,''Yummy Yummy Yummy'-all those good songs, those fun songs . . . we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's go!''Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night.'" Johnny: "We couldn't write about love or cars, so we sang about this stuff, like glue sniffing. We thought it was funny. We thought we could get away with anything." Leave Home-released January 10, 1977; recorded six months after Ramones and coproduced by Tommy with Tony Bongiovi. A New Jersey native who had been working in the relative serenity of a studio in Quebec, engineer Ed Stasium arrived for his first day's work on Leave Home without having previously heard a note of Ramones music. "I walked in, turned up the faders," he says, "and thought, What is this?" Stasium: "It was all live. We set up the boys, baffled them off a bit for isolation, put headphones on them, and away we went."

Answer 2

The Ramones were an American rock band considered to be the first punk rock group.While acknowledged as defining the sound and attitude of mid-1970s punk, they never really achieved the commercial success of their contemporaries The Clash or the notoriety of the Sex Pistols, but still had an immense impact on the punk and alternative rock scenes. They are often referred to as the "Godfathers of Punk" and played 2,263 concerts throughout their career.

After forming in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, they performed virtually non-stop for 22 years until disbanding in 1996 after a final tour with the Lollapalooza music festival. Three of the original band members—Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee Ramone—died within a few years of the break up. While they were always regarded as influential, the band’s fame is now arguably greater than while they were actively performing and recording.

In 2002 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame.

Answer 3

The Ramones are one of the first Punk Rock Groups. Compare them with the Sex Pistols.
There songs include:
"Rock n'Roll High School"
"Sheena is a Punk Rocker"
"I Wanna be sedated"
and the Theme from Stephen King's "Pet Cemetary"
amoung others.

Their is also a cult classic movie that is more or less a tribute to the Ramones-ROCK "N ROLL HIGHSCHOOL.

I HATE Punk Music, I LOVE THE RAMONES!!!

Answer 4

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Answer 6

The first Punk rock band. and for more information follow the link

Answer 7

Were you born yesterday? They were a VERY influential punk band from New York.

Answer 8

a punk rock band not the first but grandfathers of punk to be shure

Answer 9

one of the great punk bands.
certainly one of the first of what modern punk sounds like.

Answer 10

an amazing punk rock band, i believe all the members are dead except one? i might be wrong on that but you should check them out.

Answer 11

They are a Punk group, or I should say were. They are no longer together.