TODAY I AM LISTENING TO... [PLAYLISTS]

Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Exodus - Impact is Imminent
Becoming the Archetype - The Physics of Fire
War of Ages - Fire from the Tomb

Inspired by yesterday's viewing of "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," I'm going to be listening to their entire studio discography today, in chronological order.

...which I guess means I'm either an utter fan boy, or an obsessive-compulsive. You make the call.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Inspired by yesterday's viewing of "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," I'm going to be listening to their entire studio discography today, in chronological order.

...which I guess means I'm either an utter fan boy, or an obsessive-compulsive. You make the call.

Both

manny wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Inspired by yesterday's viewing of "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," I'm going to be listening to their entire studio discography today, in chronological order.

...which I guess means I'm either an utter fan boy, or an obsessive-compulsive. You make the call.

Both

I can live with that.

Fat Freddy wrote:

manny wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Inspired by yesterday's viewing of "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," I'm going to be listening to their entire studio discography today, in chronological order.

...which I guess means I'm either an utter fan boy, or an obsessive-compulsive. You make the call.

Both

I can live with that.

I did a thread on the Ramones on FB, and listened to the comp album 'Hey Ho: The Ramones Anthology' and I had forgotten how good some of those later day Ramones tunes are like 'Poison Heart' their cover of 'R.A. M.O.N.E.S' and other songs from 'Adios Amigos' 'Mondo Bizzaro', great band and I am glad I got to see them live, even if it was only one time

Zdan wrote:

Ugly Kid Joe - America's Least Wanted

Actually love this album. Fuzzy hard rockin' goodness with plenty of Sabbath-y touches. And Whitfield Crane is as good of a vocalist as they come!

One of my favorite albums! I did Neighbor and Everything About You at a kareokee (sic) bar back in August.

Last night:

Warrant-Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
Warrant-Cherry Pie
Warrant-Dog Eat Dog
Centurion-Invulnerable (pretty good non-flowery power metal from Italy)
Armada-Rage Of The Armada (great neo-classical power metal with rough vocals, also from Italy)
Bad English-s/t
Bad English-Backlash
Lillian Axe-Sad Day On Planet Earth

During my lunch hour:

Allen/Lande-The Showdown (this album just gets so much better with each listen)

That Ugly Kid Joe album is awesome to me. Great musicians, lots of looseness and powerful tunes. Love it. I also like their next album "Menace To Sobriety" - more serious and harder - features one of my total favourites - Jesus Rode A Harley.

Europe - Wings Of Tomorrow

Love this album. Contains my favourite Europe song of all time - "Scream Of Anger".

HALFORD:MADE OF METAL CD (2010)
GRAVE DIGGER:THE CLANS WILL RISE AGAIN CD (2010)
VX:CONTRAATAQUE MINI CD (2010)
KALAPACS:MITOSZ CD (2008)
THE RODS:WILD DOGS LP (1982)
HELIX:LIVE IN BUFFALO 1983 CD
UNIDOS POR EL METAL:DÜNEDAIN+ZENOBIA split maxi CD (2010) 2X
GAMMA RAY:POWER PLANT CD (1999)
OBUS:VAMOS MUY BIEN 30 GRANDES EXITOS CD1 (2006)

Zdan wrote:

That Ugly Kid Joe album is awesome to me. Great musicians, lots of looseness and powerful tunes. Love it. I also like their next album "Menace To Sobriety" - more serious and harder - features one of my total favourites - Jesus Rode A Harley.

Europe - Wings Of Tomorrow

Love this album. Contains my favourite Europe song of all time - "Scream Of Anger".

Yeah, killer song by EUROPE.

krokus wrote:

Zdan wrote:

That Ugly Kid Joe album is awesome to me. Great musicians, lots of looseness and powerful tunes. Love it. I also like their next album "Menace To Sobriety" - more serious and harder - features one of my total favourites - Jesus Rode A Harley.

Europe - Wings Of Tomorrow

Love this album. Contains my favourite Europe song of all time - "Scream Of Anger".

Yeah, killer song by EUROPE.

Shame Europe went further away from the style of the first two albums. Those were awesome hard rock/metal pieces with Judas Priest and even Maiden-like riffing and some double bass drumming even.

Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

Fat Freddy wrote:

Inspired by yesterday's viewing of "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," I'm going to be listening to their entire studio discography today, in chronological order.

...which I guess means I'm either an utter fan boy, or an obsessive-compulsive. You make the call.

...currently up to Album #5, END OF THE CENTURY (1980)

Black Sabbath - TYR

Fat Freddy wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Inspired by yesterday's viewing of "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," I'm going to be listening to their entire studio discography today, in chronological order.

...which I guess means I'm either an utter fan boy, or an obsessive-compulsive. You make the call.

...currently up to Album #5, END OF THE CENTURY (1980)

The one they worked with madman Phil Spector, a great album that ironically does not sound all that different from the other Ramones albums

kmorg wrote:

Black Sabbath - TYR

Seriously underrated album. Martin is awesome on this one and the music is epic.

manny wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Inspired by yesterday's viewing of "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," I'm going to be listening to their entire studio discography today, in chronological order.

...which I guess means I'm either an utter fan boy, or an obsessive-compulsive. You make the call.

...currently up to Album #5, END OF THE CENTURY (1980)

The one they worked with madman Phil Spector, a great album that ironically does not sound all that different from the other Ramones albums

...and one of the most divisive albums amongst their fan base. I dig it, but a lot of old time fans consider it their "sell out" album since it's slicker and more radio friendly (even tho ironically it got almost no radio play) than their previous stuff.

Honestly I've always thought that the album after this one, PLEASANT DREAMS (1981, produced by Graham Gouldman of 10cc) was way wimpier than END. It's my least fave of their albums.

Fat Freddy wrote:

manny wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Inspired by yesterday's viewing of "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," I'm going to be listening to their entire studio discography today, in chronological order.

...which I guess means I'm either an utter fan boy, or an obsessive-compulsive. You make the call.

...currently up to Album #5, END OF THE CENTURY (1980)

The one they worked with madman Phil Spector, a great album that ironically does not sound all that different from the other Ramones albums

...and one of the most divisive albums amongst their fan base. A lot of folks consider it their "sell out" album since it's slicker and more radio friendly (even tho ironically it got almost no radio play), though honestly I thought the album after this, PLEASANT DREAMS (1981, produced by Graham Gouldman of 10cc) was way wimpier.

100% agree, I like 'Pleasant Dreams' but it is alot more pop oriented then 'End of the Century', also 'End of the Century' proves to me that Phil Spector's skills as a producer are overblown and overrated.

manny wrote:

100% agree, I like 'Pleasant Dreams' but it is alot more pop oriented then 'End of the Century',

PLEASANT has a couple of decent tracks (i.e. "We Want The Airwaves," "The KKK Took My Baby Away" and "She's A Sensation") but the bulk of it is kinda lame.

Though I did laugh my ass off at the revelation in the documentary that Joey most likely wrote "The KKK Took My Baby Away" as an ode to Johnny stealing (and eventually marrying) his girlfriend, and Johnny never realized it.

manny wrote:

also 'End of the Century' proves to me that Phil Spector's skills as a producer are overblown and overrated

The only one in the band who was excited to work with him was Joey. Johnny sez something in the documentary like, "Phil Spector, yeah. So he produced the Beatles. Big deal. What had he done lately? He hadn't had a hit in 15 years and he was supposed to 'save' us?"

Fat Freddy wrote:

manny wrote:

100% agree, I like 'Pleasant Dreams' but it is alot more pop oriented then 'End of the Century',

PLEASANT has a couple of decent tracks (i.e. "We Want The Airwaves," "The KKK Took My Baby Away" and "She's A Sensation") but the bulk of it is kinda lame.

Though I did laugh my ass off at the revelation in the documentary film that Joey most likely wrote "The KKK Took My Baby Away" as an ode to Johnny stealing (and eventually marrying) his girlfriend, and Johnny never realized it.

manny wrote:

also 'End of the Century' proves to me that Phil Spector's skills as a producer are overblown and overrated

As Johnny put it in the documentary: "Phil Spector, yeah. So he produced the Beatles. Big deal. What's he done lately? He hadn't had a hit in 15 years and he was supposed to be the guy to 'save' us?"

Paul McCartney was so angry at so called production of 'Let It Be', where Spector added strings, etc, that also added to one of the reasons The Beatles called it a day, two decades later McCartney finally gets his way and removes the elements he hated and reissued the album 'Let It Be-Naked'

believer - sanity obscure
believer - the return
insecticide - unpublished album 1990 + demo 1987
insecticide - for a dying world
ESC - eight thousand square feet

I'm now up to 1986's ANIMAL BOY on my trip thru the Ramones discography...

Random Eyes - Invisible
Oil - Refine
Living Sacrifice - Reborn

kmorg wrote:

Black Sabbath - TYR

Good call! Very underrated album!