Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
The Ramones open 1976 with Blitzkrieg Bop: Hey! Ho! Let’s go!, Sire debut single, under two and a half minutes of bar chords and chant.
Afterlife Interview with Joey Ramone
Riffs and Beats finds Joey Ramone in a CBGB alley, neon on, tall in leather, mic stand planted, a set that stays on two chords.
Ramones – Two minutes, leather, no solos
In Forest Hills, Queens, four men in matching leather jackets turned CBGB into a stopwatch: count of four, downstroke, next song.
Ramones – Rockaway Beach
Dee Dee Ramone wrote Rockaway Beach as a Beach Boys song about a Queens beach, and the Ramones cut it at Mediasound on 21 August 1977.
Ramones – I Just Want to Have Something to Do
In the summer of 1978, Joey Ramone opened Road to Ruin with a medium-speed complaint cut at Mediasound, Marky Ramone's first album with the band.