It sounds very much like the Beach Boys, and I find this to be the Ramones at their best. It has the same spirit as other songs like "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" and "Rockaway Beach", but it is played with a little more skill. "Rock 'n' Roll Highschool" jumps in afterwards, and is (in my opinion) possibly the best song on the entire album. "I Just Want to Have Something to Do" is after that, and sports a much heavier guitar riff than the other songs before it. "I Wanna Be Sedated" is a wonderful song and will be in your head for DAYS. With the begining of the second half, the songs become a little more complex, but the album still hasn't slowed down.
After these songs, I consider the first half of the album to be over. "Rockaway Beach" and "Cretin Hop" are pure and simple pop, while "We're A Happy Family" and "Teenage Lobotomy" showcase some of the Ramones-brand humor that fans come to love. "Rockaway Beach", "We're A Happy Family", "Cretin Hop", and "Teenage Lobotomy" are up next. "Pinhead" is another great Ramones song, and considered by many to be their theme song. Its extremely poppy, and has a very summer/beach feel to it.
"Sheena Is A Punk Rocker was one of the few Ramones songs that actually did fairly well on the charts, and for a good reason. The next three songs are "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker", "Pinhead", and "Commando". The following three songs, which are "Beat On the Brat", "Judy Is A Punk", and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", like "Blitzkrieg Bop", are off of the first Ramones album, and I can never really get tired of these songs, especially "Judy Is A Punk". And I don't believe that this song will ever be forgotten or lost in time. The unforgettable lines of "Hey, Ho, Lets Go!" have been used everywhere for almost everything, from beer commercials to kid's movies! I've always considered this song to be an invitation to every lonely kid, every degenerate, every punk band, to just get up and play. This album kicks off with the one song that almost everyone has heard, and is simply titled "Blitzkrieg Bop".
I've decided to write this review in a way which will (hopefully) please every reader by typing both an overall summary and a song-by-song review. But all the same, I definitely recomend this CD to everyone: from avid fans to curious new listeners alike. Thats kind of funny, since the Ramones hardly sold anything during their 19 year career. I've noticed that something very ironic has happened with these guys: people have begun to almost complain about the number of greatest hits collections that they have released in past years. Well, it looks like we have yet another Ramones hit compilation.
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If you don't buy it, you should at least download every song on it. After all, as good as this music is, how many times can it be shuffled around on compilations? (And since the skimpy liner notes for this set are cribbed from the Weird Tales box - there is a letter coding to illustrate each of the Ramones albums and which drummers and bassists played on what, but half of the albums with coding aren't represented at all - this can't help feel a little bit like an afterthought.) Nevertheless, anybody looking for a concise collection of the group's basics will not feel let down by this Greatest Hits, which does indeed offer 20 tracks of prime Ramones rock & roll.Review Summary: This is a great CD. This makes for a tighter, better listen than Loud, Fast Ramones, even if it's hard not to feel that Rhino might have gone to the well one too many times with this release. Unlike 2002's Loud, Fast Ramones, Greatest Hits makes no attempt to cover anything other than the group's peak period: the first 16 songs cover 1976's Ramones through 1980s End of the Century, with a selection apiece from Pleasant Dreams ("The KKK Took My Baby Away"), Subterranean Jungle ("Outsider"), Brain Drain ("Pet Sematary") and Too Tough to Die ("Wart Hog"). Appearing one year after Rhino's Ramones box set Weird Tales of the Ramones, and appearing four years after Rhino's first single-disc Ramones collection Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits - which itself appeared after Rhino's excellent double-disc Hey! Ho! Let's Go!: The Anthology - Rhino's 2006 collection Greatest Hits serves up 20 of the group's basics.
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