Word: punks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Just Want to Have Something to Do", which opens the flip side of Road, take the band right back to their roots. It is pure punk, with a chorus that catches the essence of punk philosophy...
...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...
...that they seem to want to. The rest of the first side of the album with songs like "Bad Brain" and "It's a Long Way Back" fit well into standard punk molds: perfect 4/4 time, straight drum beat and guitar lines with the subtlety of a jack hammer, or a seal-clubbing expedition...
...NEXT CUT, "Wanted Everthing," reinforces that punk tone. By this point the record has fallen into a pattern. The lyrics are a bit more laid back than the old favorites like "Teenage Lobotomy," or "Sheena is a Punk Rocker," (both from the rocket to Russia album), and the music is certainly slicker, but the basic feeling produced by any Ramones album is the same. After listening to one, with the volume dial set above '7', the only choice left for the night is between casual acts of petty destruction or serious chemical personality alterations...