Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ramones, with their new album Road to Ruin, certainly reek of the back alleys and cheap drugs that keep them well on the punk side of the new wave. But if Vicious's last fling hides Road in the wreckage it will be quite a loss, for this latest release is the perfect album to let loose--loud--on your turntable for those moments when Fleetwood Mac just can't soothe your soul...
...that the Ramones will soothe you. But this album shows that the Ramones are really learning how to play their instruments. It boasts good hard rock and roll with no compromise with the middle of the road. The album only falls short when the band leaves the basic punk pattern and tries either lyrically or musically to make some real statement...
...first tune on the album, "I Want to be Sedated," is the best piece on the disc. It has a good hook, and the lyrics capture elegantly the urge for a temporary lobotomy...
...slow tune of the album, "Questioningly," marks out the band's new dimensions. The song doesn't quite work; one can't take too seriously any of the Ramones saying anything like "I don't love you anymore/What do you want to talk to me for/You should have let me walk by/Memories make me cry." But still it's a nice, actually mellow song that proves the Ramones might even be able to make it in the mainstream if they wanted...
...stays out of the mainstream now, after flirting with what fellow Folkie Utah Phillips calls "the folkscare" of the 1960s. It was then that he made a "disastrous" album that flung him up against the lower regions of the pop music business. "I saw the grass on its bottom and the rot in its timbers," he claims. "I decided I didn't want to be a part of that...