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The Ramones - All the Stuff (And More), Vol. 2 Audio CD

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The Ramones Band: The Ramones
Title: All the Stuff (And More), Vol. 2
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Release Date: 1991-07-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Cretin Hop 2: Rockaway Beach 3: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow 4: Locket Love 5: I Don't Care 6: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker 7: We're A Happy Family 8: Teenage Lobotomy 9: Do You Wanna Dance? 10: I Wanna Be Well 11: I Can't Give You Anything 12: Ramona 13: Surfin' Bird 14: Why Is It Always This Way? 15: Slug 16: I Want You Around (Original Version) 17: I Just Want To Have Something To Do 18: I Wanted Everything 19: Don't Come Close 20: I Don't Want You 21: Needles and Pins 22: I'm Against It 23: I Wanna Be Sedated 24: Questioningly 25: She's The One 26: Bad Brain 27: It's A Long Way Back 28: I Don't Want To Live This Life (Anymore) 29: Yea, Yea

Before you trade, read...
Of course, the original albums have been rereleased with lots of extra stuff, making All the Stuff Vol. Great double album. 1 obsolete, but All the Stuff Vol. II has a track, "I Don't Wanna Live This Life Anymore" which was not included on the individual album rereleases. Not sure why, unless it was considered in bad taste after all the deaths in the Ramones family. Oh well. .


Great Stuff!
1. Before I begin, I must say that you have to pick this CD up along with All The Stuff, Vol. They are better together. Vol. 2 features classics such as "I Wanna Be Well", "I Wanna Be Sedated", "Cretin Hop", "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker", "Rockaway Beach", "I Don't Care", and "Ramona". It also features three previously unreleased tracks. The unreleased tracks alone are a reason to go out and pick this CD up. If you are just getting into Punk, I would suggest picking up Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 along with The Clash's greatest hits (entitled The Singles), The Misfits' compilation albums (Collection and Collection II), and Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by The Dead Kennedys. .


Happy and Bouncey
i think this is a great album for the Ramones. This Album is a Not-Get-Sick-Of-Album!!! it's just a great cd to run while your outside flippin burgers or just sitting in the hot summer sun. My pesonal favs are 'Sheena is a Punk Rocker' and 'Rock away Beach' You feel like you wasted money buying this one. its 30 tracks and i got it for like 12 bucks(and thats not cuz it sux).


A Thrashing Experience
" This is an excellent collection, mostly from the third and forth albums, "Rocket to Russia" and "Road to Ruin" (along with a few obligatory bonus tracks), that demonstrates how the Ramones eventually work rescued radio rock with an simple but powerful mixture of heavy drums and bass, constant thrashing guitars, and one of the best punk vocalists, Joey Ramone. As liner note writer Kurt Loder states, the Ramones issued a "wake up call" to 1976 consumers listening to hits "by people like Barry Manilow and Walter Murphy and England Dan and John Ford Coley.

Some of that new sound, in songs like "Ramona, "Rockaway Beach" and, especially, "Sheena is a Punk Rocker," are clearly linked to the surf bands (most notably, the Beach Boys), but energized and propelled by the least subtle drumming you'll ever hear, and the joy of Joey's "inimitable Anglo-Queens lead bleat" (again, quoting Kurt Loder).

There are a few "ballads' (e. g. , "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow") that don't really work, especially in contrast to the faster songs. On the other hand, it's nice to have some breaks from the glorious pounding. Side 2's "I Want You Around" is much more successful, the textures and shading reminiscent of Elvis Costello. Mostly, though, the songs are fast, short, and energized; if you don't like one cut, the next one might get to you.

The Ramones seem to have a special affinity for covering older songs, highlighted here by a fast "Do You Wanna Dance," "Needles and Pins," and their near perfect adaptation of the great "Surfin' Bird. " Other highlights include "Slug," which features woofer-destroying bass and drums and a John Lennon-esque chorus, and "Road to Ruin" songs "I Want You Around," and "I Just Want to Have Something to Do" where the band displays a bit more texture and invention, alongside great hooks and raw energy. Unfortunately, there are also the inexplicably polished "Questioningly" and the country excursions of "Don't Come Close. " But the "Road to Ruin" songs include the thrashing "I'm Against It" ("when I'm against it, I'm against it"), and one of the best (and most popular) of the Ramones' work "I Wanna Be Sedated. " Completing the psychiatric trilogy are "Mental Health" (pronounced beautifully as "Men-till") with its blistering guitars, and the excellent 60's sound (buffeted by punk's flatted chords) of "Bad Brain. " Although a few cuts begin to blend together (especially after 71 minutes of it here), you'll want to return to this New York roller coaster even after you have muscle memory of its thrill. The Ramones are well worth listening to again and again.


GREAT RAMONES ALBUM
Most people think that the ramones can only play one type of music. . . . BOY WERE THEY EVER WRONG!!
This album covers everything from the hard power chords of "I DON'T WANNA LIVE THIS LIFE (ANYMORE)" to the soft ballads of sunny Bono's classic "NEEDLES AND PINS", and let's not forget the all-time hit "I WANNA BE SEDATED".
If you've just grown an interest in the ramones now that Joey is dead, and you wanna start your collection, you must buy this album!.


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