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Tutti conosciamo i Ramones, è inutile continuare la celebrazione di un gruppo che semplicemente ha di fatto fondato il vero Punk Rock estremizzando un discorso già iniziato da MC5, in parte Who e soprattutto Iggy & Stooges, grandi influenze del gruppo. I Ramones hanno ribaltato, rivoluzionato e scosso il mondo del rock come nessuno, neanche Elvis forse. Ramones: la parola dice tutto. Ma nelle radici del gruppo come noto non c'erano solo il selvaggio rock n roll delle band sopracitate ma anche Surf, Bubblegum pop e in generale il vasto mondo del pop sixties.
Dopo i primi 3 inarrivabili album la svolta se di svolta possiamo parlare era già arrivata con "Road to Ruin", il quarto splendido album prodotto dal fuoriuscito Tommy evidenziava maggiormente a quanto già fatto precedentemente le grandi influenze pop anni 60. Dopo il super prodotto da Phil Spector ma ottimo "End of Century" per aprire il nuovo decennio, che sarebbe stato il più difficile per la band, venne questo sesto album di studio dei leggendari fratelli del Queens che continuava su questo verso, ma comunque senza rinnegare del tutto il punk originale. Questa volta prodotto dal meno blasonato ma anche meno despotico e tirannico polistrumentista dei 10cc Graham Gouldman, definito da Marky Ramone "l'album pop del gruppo" e "uno dei miei preferiti" l'album in questione è uno dei più snobbati da critica e pubblico, e anche in parte sottovalutati perchè di tracce brutte non ce ne sono, non mancano tracce anonime ma anche grandi pezzi che non sfigurano a confronto con quelli degli album precedenti seppur non arrivando a quei vertici. La prima "We Want to Airwaves" è un piccolo capolavoro di punk orecchiabile e sarà un classico della band da quì in avanti come ancor di più la grandiosa terza "The KKK Took My Baby Away" col testo dedicato alla nota vicenda Joey/Johnny/Linda ovvero la ex fidanzata di Joey "rubata" dal chitarrista che in seguitò se la sposò anche, uno dei pezzi più belli del repertorio dei 4 che purtroppo sarà anche coverizzata in modo osceno da Marilyn Manson. "It's Not My Place(In the 9 to 5 World)" e "She's a Sensation" rispettivamente al sesto e al settimo posto gli altri brani più noti, ottimi anche se abbasatanza inferiori ai precedenti.
Le altre non calano mai drasticamente il livello generale, "All Quiet On The Eastern Front" parte bene e si mantiene buona nonostante gli evitabili cori di Dee Dee, "Don't Go", ottima breve e melodica," You Sound Like You're Sick", "You Didn't Mean Anything To Me", "Come On Now", "The Buisness Is Killing Me" e "Sitting In My Room" scorrono tranquille e completano il quadro senza troppi sussulti o niente da raccontare particolarmente, senza lode senza infamia come il disco insomma.
Chiusura dedicata a "7-11": splendida ottava traccia, sicuramente la migliore in assoluto del lavoro, la più lunga ed emozionante nel suo raccontare una tenera e triste storia d'amore attraverso la magnifica voce del grandissimo Joey.
Un album non imprescindibile se non si è un fanatico dei Ramones come il sottoscritto, ma neanche un album da disprezzare o ignorare completamente, un album che sta benissimo nel repertorio di una band che comunque non ha mai tirato fuori album brutti o senza dignità. La carica degli esordi non gli appartiene, ma la sensazione è quella di un lavoro leggero ma godibile, ben arrangiato e ben fatto nel suo insieme, un album molto onesto in conclusione.
Consigliato a chi vuole assaporare anche il lato più melodico e a tratti romantico e malinconico della band. Anche se non all'altezza dei migliori lavori è un album che comunque tra alti e bassi scorre liscio senza momenti di noia. I Ramones sono una band da conoscere scoprire e assaporare per ogni singola nota di ogni singolo album.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 We Want the Airwaves (03:22)
9 to 5 and 5 to 9
Ain't gonna take it
It's our time
We want the world and we want it now
We're gonna take it anyhow
We want the airwaves
We want the airwaves
We want the airwaves, baby
If rock is gonna stay alive
(2x)
Oh yeah
well alright
Let's rock
tonight
All night
Where's your guts and will to survive
And don't you wanna keep rock'n'roll music alive
Mr. Programmer
I got my hammer
And I'm gonna
Smash my
Smash my
Brain!
We want the airwaves
We want the airwaves
We want the airwaves, baby
If rock is gonna stay alive
(2x)
Oh yeah
well alright
Let's rock
tonight
All night
We want the airwaves airwaves
We want the airwaves airwaves
We want the airwaves airwaves
We want the airwaves airwaves
We want the airwaves, baby
02 All's Quiet on the Eastern Front (02:14)
Watch the watch the way I walk
Can't you think my movements talk
Watch the watch the way I walk
Can't you think my movements talk
See me silently quietly creep I am too
amped up to sleep lamp rays shining down
Street lamps make the bussing sound subway
Creaking down below garbage piled up and ready to go
Lock the windows the gates on taxi in the
Distance coming along stalking the streets
Till the break of day New York beauty take my
Breath away near some cats but dog's don't
bark cool cats strolling after dark
Watch the watch the way I walk
Can't you think my movements talk
Watch the watch the way I walk
Can't you think my movements talk
Shaky lock and kicky door smokey air that
I adore down in the alley is where I hunt
All is quiet on the eastern front
Stalking the streets till the break of day
New York beauty take my breath away
Watch the watch the way I walk
Can't you think my movements talk
Watch the watch the way I walk
Can't you think my movements talk
Can't you think my movements talk
Can't you think my movements talk
03 The KKK Took My Baby Away (02:32)
She went away for the holidays
Said she's going to L.A.
but she never got there
She never got there
She never got there, they say
She went away for the holidays
Said she's going to L.A.
but she never got there
She never got there
She never got there, they say
The KKK took my baby away
they took her away
away from me
The KKK took my baby away
they took her away
away from me
HEY, HO, HEY, HO,
I don't know
Where my baby can be
they took her from me
they took her from me
I don't know
where my baby can be
they took her from me
they took her from me
ring me, ring me, ring me
up the President
and find out
Where my baby went
ring me, ring me, ring me
up the FBI
and find out if
my baby's alive
yeah, yeah, yeah
o-o-o-o-o-o
yeah, yeah, yeah
o-o-o-o-o-o
She went away for the holidays
Said she's going to L.A.
but she never got there
She never got there
She never got there, they say
She went away for the holidays
Said she's going to L.A.
but she never got there
She never got there
She never got there, they say
The KKK took my baby away
they took her away
away from me
The KKK took my baby away
they took her away
away from me
The KKK took my baby away
they took her away
away from me
The KKK took my baby away
They took my girl
They took my baby away
05 You Sound Like You're Sick (02:43)
Well I can't understand
Anything about you
Help you if I can
What can I do
Here's your new home
That's where you must be
In the institution
'Cause you're so lazy
But if you must act up
Again & again
'Cause everybody knows
You're a hopeless problem
Here's your new home
That's where you must be
In the institution
'Cause you're so lazy
You sound like you're sick
You look like your sick too
You sound like you're sick
But if you must act up
You sound like you're sick
Well I can't understand
Anything about you
You sound like you're sick
You look like you're sick too
You sound like you're sick
You sound like you're sick
You look like you're sick too
Well you sound like you're sick
You sound like you're sick
07 She's a Sensation (03:29)
She's a sensation
She's a sensation
She looks a so sweet
She's a sensation
She's a sensation
Good enough a to eat
She's a sensation
oh-oh-oh
She looks a so fine
She's a sensation
She's a Sensation
I'm gonna make her mine
No matter what you do (you do)
I give my heart to you (to you)
And oh-oh-baby
I will give to you
no matter What they say (they say)
yeah, we can find a way (a way)
And oh-oh-baby we can find a way
I didn't know it till I walked you home
That, I feel the way I do
and I don't care
What the neighbors say
I always will be true
I always will love you
love you a-wo-wo-wo-wo
(repeat all)
08 7-11 (03:38)
I met her at the 7-11 now I'm in 7th heaven
Tell me, tell me can this be true
I never thought I'd ever meet a girl like you
She was standing by the Space Invaders so I said
Can I see you later yeah we went for a little spin
Down to the holiday inn
We was young and in love
We was young and in love
And you're the only girl I'm ever thinking of
We went down to the record swap the kids were
Dancing to the Blitzkrieg Bop
Bop-shoo-wop, shoo-wop shoo-wop
Bop-shoo-wop shoo-wop shoo-wop
What ever happened to the radio
and where did all the fun songs go
Summer fun, with the Beach Boys on
But we all know what went wrong oh-wo-wo
We was young and in love
We was young and in love
And you're the only girl I'm ever dreaming of
And so we went down to the dance
Which turned into a whole romance
And after just one night, I never knew things could be so right
Oh-no-no-no-no-no-no-no
I kissed and hugged her and I said good-bye
Last thing I knew she wouldn't make it alive
Oncoming car went out of control it crushed
My baby and it crushed my soul
Now all I've got is sorrow and pain
standing out here In the rain
the crash, the shattering glass,
The sirens and pain is driving me insane oh-yeah
We was young and in love
We was young and in love
And you're the only girl I'm ever thinking of
12 Sitting in My Room (02:30)
Sitting in my room record player on
Sitting in my room humming a sickening tune
Sitting in my room something to do soon
We know what we think of them the problems just
Keep piling in they got complaints about everything
Its us against them its us against them
Its us against them
They just wanna worry thats not what any kid
Should have to do they just wanna be so lame
Maybe they should try and sniff some glue
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