Ramones

Ramones – The Sire Years: 1976 – 1989 (2013/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 05:58:58 minutes | 13,56 GB | Genre: Rock, Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino/Warner Bros.

Explore the incomparable footprint of the Ramones’ musical legacy with a boxed set featuring the band’s seminal albums. With the 1976 release of their debut album, the Ramones issued a manifesto with their groundbreaking sound, inspiring countless others to pick up guitars and rock. Formed in the Forest Hills section of Queens, NY in 1974, the Ramones were completely original, forgoing a whole new sound and direction for music and giving birth to punk.

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Ramones – Too Tough to Die (1984)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:30 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Punk, New Wave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

Too Tough to Die is the eighth studio album by the American punk rock band the Ramones. It was released on October 1, 1984, and is the first Ramones record to feature Richie Ramone on drums. With ex-member Tommy Ramone producing, the recording process was similar to that of the band’s 1976 self-titled debut album. Likewise, the record’s style—both lyrically and compositionally—saw the band returning to their roots. The photograph on the album cover, which features silhouettes of the band members, resulted from a “lucky accident” after photographer George DuBose’s camera malfunctioned.

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Ramones – Rocket to Russia (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1977/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:51:28 minutes | 3,80 GB | Genre: Punk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

The rules of the game were certainly perfectly clear after their first album: in the third instalment of the Ramones’ story, they surpassed themselves. And even refined their art! Once again, with this Rocket to Russia, released on 4 November 1977, at the height of the Cold War, it was all about three-chord symphonies, enthusiastically cretinous and 100% adolescent hi-jinks and above all, taking rock’n’roll back to its birthplace: the garage! But the refrains of Sheena Is A Punk Rocker or Teenage Lobotomyare peerless in their re–imagining of their rock’n’roll, bubblegum pop and surf heritage. And even when they cover the cult tracks Surfin’ Bird by the Trashmen or Do You Wanna Dance? (made famous by Cliff Richard, the Beach Boys and even Bette Midler) our delinquent punks from Queens produced savage and raw rock like nobody else! This edition to mark the 40th birthday of this sublime sonic attack offers two mixes of the album: the original, and a new mix, entitled Tracking Mix by Ed Stasium, the sound engineer on the original release. It also includes 24 rare or unreleased tracks, demos, alternative versions and B–sides. And the cherry on the cake is a dazzling, unreleased live version by the four Ramones brothers (all from other mothers) recorded on 19 December 1977 the Apollo Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Ramones – Road To Ruin (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1978/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:09:29 minutes | 4,33 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

The Ramones released the band’s fourth studio album, Road To Ruin, 40 years ago this September. Dee Dee, Joey, and Johnny were joined for the first time by drummer Marky Ramone, who replaced founding member Tommy Ramone, who’d left to do more producing and writing for the band. It was also the album that introduced a nation of pinheads to the all-time Ramones’ classic “I Wanna Be Sedated.”

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Ramones – Ramones: 40th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition 2016) (1976/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:41:54 minutes | 3,50 GB | Genre: Punk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

The 40th anniversary of Ramones, recently named the “Greatest Punk Album Of All Time” by Rolling Stone, and certainly one of the most important and influential albums of all time. Features a brand NEW MONO MIX of the album – the band had originally discussed recording the album in mono, but it was ultimately decided against. Plus 18 single mixes, outtakes, and demos, includes 8 previously unreleased tracks and Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA – August 12, 1976 (Set 2 – previously unreleased).

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Ramones – Leave Home (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1977/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:56:37 minutes | 3,89 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

The years go by and the legacy left by the Ramones still puts down more and more roots in the great history of the pop music of the twentieth century. The false brothers from Queens have actually never taken their dirty and used Converse elsewhere than down the beaten path of a certain rock’n’roll tradition going from surf music to girl groups. With stupidity as philosophy, teenage insouciance as credo, supersonic guitars as weapons of mass destruction, their albums—binary in their form, really enjoyable in their content—give birth to hymns of bubble-gum pop on amphetamines that are a lot more serious than they seem. Just like this Leave Home, their second studio album released in January 1977, only nine months after their first one! A good thumb in the nose of the rock scene, with, in the role of the icing on the cake, classics like I Remember and, above all, Pinhead, from which comes their famous battle cry: Gabba Gabba Hey! In 80 titles splits on 3 CDs, this generous deluxe remastered edition celebrates the fortieth birthday of this masterpiece that couldn’t have been more influential, overloaded with demos, B sides, remixes and live titles recorded in 1977 at the CBGB, the New-York punk mecca. In short, our verdict is in: gabba gabba hey!

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Ramones – It’s Alive (Live) [40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:36:01 minutes | 5,00 GB | Genre: Punk Rock, Classic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records

Taking its name from a 1974 horror film, It’s Alive was the last album to feature all four original band members: Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone and Tommy Ramone. All four concerts included in the new Deluxe Edition capture the band in peak form as they storm through dozens of songs from the group’s influential catalog. IT’S ALIVE: 40th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION features all four concerts that were professionally recorded during the Ramones’ U.K. tour in December 1977, three making their debut release: Top Rank, Birmingham (December 28, 1977); Victoria Hall, Stoke-On-Trent (December 29, 1977); Friars, Aylesbury (December 30, 1977); and The Rainbow Theatre, London (December 31, 1977).

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