Road To Ruin (Remastered) Ramones

• 1 I Just Want To Have Something To Do 02:41
• 2 I Wanted Everything 03:19
• 3 Don't Come Close 02:45
• 4 I Don't Want You 02:27
• 5 Needles and Pins 02:21
• 6 I'm Against It 02:07
• 7 I Wanna Be Sedated 02:30
• 8 Go Mental 02:43
• 9 Questioningly 03:22
• 10 She's the One 02:13
• 11 Bad Brain 02:25
• 12 It's a Long Way Back 02:21
• Total Runtime 31:14

Info for Road To Ruin (Remastered)

The last installment of the Ramones' breathtaking run of four albums in two years, the underrated „Road To Ruin„ shows that the group's follow-up, the Phil Spector-produced „End of the Century“, was not as huge a change of direction as it's often made out to be. Compared to the fairly primitive Ramones and „Leave Home“, „Rocket to Russia“ had sounded almost slick, and „Road To Ruin„ goes it one better.

Tom Erdelyi remains as co-producer, but his new partner Ed Stasium reveals a gift for balancing hard-candy gloss, bubble-gum hooks and noisy punk passion; similarly, Erdelyi's replacement on the drums, former glam-rocker Marc Bell, adds both power and finesse. The high points--particularly the uncharacteristically emotional love song 'Questioningly' and the immortal rocker 'I Wanna Be Sedated'--are excellent, and „Road To Ruin„ is a fitting conclusion to the Ramones' first and best era.

'...Amongst their best work....A consistently satisfying record....the album's hooks are irresistible...' (Q-Magazine)

'...The most toweringly aggressive, misleadingly primitive, perfectly phrased musical statement ever made....The demos and alternate versions included demonstrate how finely honed every gangly gesture was from the very beginning...' (NME Magazine)

Joey Ramone, vocals
Johnny Ramone, guitar
Dee Dee Ramone, bass, background vocals
Marky Ramone, drums

Produced by T. Erdelyi and Ed Stasium

Digitally remastered

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