Morrissey covers Ramones' Judy is a Punk in Brooklyn

In the years of his youth, as at 17 and before The Smiths, Morrissey was not a big fan of the pioneers of punk rock, Ramones as it seemed a band of "pretentious degenerates untalented , " at least so He expressed in a letter sent at that time the magazine Melody Maker at that time: "the Ramones is the latest pretentious band of degenerates untalented, whose most notable achievement has been to date is their ability to move across borders city of New York ".

But calm, as reported Stereogum himself that later became a big fan of the band, having even cured a special launch of Record Store Day in 2014. So also used his visit to Brooklyn in New York to remember, with a version of Judy is a Punk. This song was originally published in the self - titled 1976 album Ramones.