simple, repetitive lyrics, electrifying riff, songs averaging two minutes and a quick and direct sound was what they needed four youths from the suburbs of New York to launch the April 23, 1976 the album "Ramones".
" We started recording our first album on February 2, 1976 and mix on 19 March. Accustomed to playing only live, he did not understand why it took so long. I figured you went there and in a day played songs and the next, he sang them . "These are the memories that Johnny Ramone account.
His first album was released under the label Sire Records and was recorded in seven days at a cost of $ 6,400 when the average recording was half a million and several months of recording.
"We recorded songs in the same order in which we played in our actions then, a pattern also continue in our next two albums. Even in that were the Ramones a union of habits." He outlined Joey Ramone
For its release, the album was not the position of the Billboard 111, selling 6,000 copies in its first year. Although sales were improving, The Ramones never took to the charts.
A total of 14 songs are those that are recorded on the disc and do not reach the 30 minutes long and consist of only three chords were all they needed Dee Dee, Tommy, Johnny and Joey Ramone to revolutionize the time with an unknown sound in the US and in the UK it was already beginning to form. The punk.
"I feel that revolutionized rock and roll. It was something that he alone, I guess the same way that The Beatles or Elvis Presley did not know what was going to happen , "said Joey in the publication of the book" Ramones, full and twisted story , "while Tommy said: "the first album was a manifesto of the least, overwhelming peculiar rawness".
The disc includes the first two songs recorded by the quartet, "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" as several songs that became a success as "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" "53rd & 3rd" and "Judy is a Punk".
"And the first songs ... about what we were going to write, girls? The truth is that not we, so like or we were artists or anything, we write about simple things we could tell. We felt that the Communists and the Nazis were funny, it was also fun sniffing glue, but neither thought there were people who got it , "he recalls in the book.
In 2014 the album reached certified gold record in 2014 after reaching the 500,000 copies sold.
