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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Ramones
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The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first band to define the punk-rock sound, despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the 1970s punk movement in both the United States and United Kingdom. All of the members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname Ramone. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years, in 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played a farewell concert and disbanded. By 2014, all four of the original members, lead singer Joey Ramone, bass guitarist Dee Dee Ramone, lead guitarist Johnny Ramone. In 2002, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin magazine, on March 18,2002, the original four members and Tommys replacement on drums, Marky Ramone, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2011, the group was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the original members of the band met in and around the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills in the New York City borough of Queens. John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi had both been in a garage band from 1965 to 1967 known as the Tangerine Puppets. They became friends with Douglas Colvin, who had moved to the area from Germany, and Jeffrey Hyman. The Ramones began taking shape in early 1974 when Cummings and Colvin invited Hyman to join them in a band, the initial line-up featured Colvin on lead vocals, rhythm and bass guitars, Cummings on lead guitar, and Hyman on drums. Hyman soon switched from drums to vocals, Colvin was the first to adopt the name Ramone, calling himself Dee Dee Ramone. He was inspired by Paul McCartneys use of the pseudonym Paul Ramon during his Silver Beetles days, Dee Dee convinced the other members to take on the name and came up with the idea of calling the band the Ramones. Hyman and Cummings became Joey and Johnny Ramone, respectively, a friend of the band, Monte A. Melnick, helped to arrange rehearsal time for them at Manhattans Performance Studios, where he worked. Johnnys former bandmate Erdelyi was set to become their manager, soon after the band was formed, Dee Dee realized that he could not sing and play his bass guitar simultaneously, with Erdelyis encouragement, Joey became the bands new lead singer. Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each songs tempo with his signature shout of 1-2-3-4. Joey soon similarly realized that he could not sing and play drums simultaneously, while auditioning prospective replacements, Erdelyi would often take to the drums and demonstrate how to play the songs. It became apparent that he was able to perform the music better than anyone else. The Ramones played before an audience for the first time on March 30,1974, the songs they played were very fast and very short, most clocked in at under two minutes
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Punk rock
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Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as proto-punk music, Punk bands typically produced short or fast-paced songs, with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic, many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through informal channels, the term punk was first used in relation to rock music by some American critics in the early 1970s, to describe garage bands and their devotees. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, for the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment, by the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and street punk had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk. At the end of the 20th century, punk rock had been adopted by the mainstream, as pop punk and punk bands such as Green Day. The first wave of rock was aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, In its initial form, unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere, by 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock n roll. In critic Robert Christgaus description, It was also a subculture that rejected the political idealism. Technical accessibility and a DIY spirit are prized in punk rock, in the early days of punk rock, this ethic stood in marked contrast to what those in the scene regarded as the ostentatious musical effects and technological demands of many mainstream rock bands. Musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion, according to Holmstrom, punk rock was rock and roll by people who didnt have very many skills as musicians but still felt the need to express themselves through music. In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published an illustration of three chords, captioned This is a chord, this is another, this is a third. The title of a 1980 single by the New York punk band Stimulators, inscribed a catchphrase for punks basic musical approach. The previous year, when the rock revolution began in Great Britain, was to be both a musical and a cultural Year Zero. As a Clash associate describes singer Joe Strummers outlook, Punk rock is meant to be our freedom, were meant to be able to do what we want to do. Scholar Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the identity can be difficult, as the punk scene matured, he observes
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Radioactive Records
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Radioactive Records was an American record label. It was formed as a joint venture between talent manager Gary Kurfirst and MCA Records, and it is now out of business. Acts on the label had included, Live, Black Grape, Janes Addiction, the Ramones, Big Audio Dynamite, Talking Heads, Eurythmics, Traci Lords, and Angelfish. The band Pray TV from Melbourne, Australia, and British group Cooler Than Jesus were also signed by the label in the early 1990s, in 1997, Kurfirst formed a related label, Radiouniverse, as a joint venture with Universal Music Groups Universal Records. It debuted with albums from Radio Iodine and Dig, bands that were signed to Radioactive. Other acts signed to the label included The Devlins and Tyzle Fly, list of record labels Official website Gary Kurfirst official website
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Chrysalis Records
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Chrysalis Records /ˈkrɪ. sə. lɪs/ is a British record label that was created in 1969. The name was both a reference to the stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders names, Chris Wright. It started as the Ellis-Wright Agency and this was after the single Sunshine Day/Aeroplane was incorrectly credited to Jethro Toe. Jethro Tull signed with Reprise Records in the United States, which led Chrysalis to an American distribution deal with Reprises parent company and this lasted from 1972 until U. S. Chrysalis switched to independent distribution in 1976. PolyGram handled international distribution and Festival Records covered Australia and New Zealand, towards the end of the 1970s, the label began to extend its range of music, incorporating acts from the Punk Rock scene such as Generation X. The Chrysalis offshoot 2 Tone Records brought in such as The Specials. In 1979 Chrysalis bought and distributed U. S. folk label Takoma Records, naming manager/producer Denny Bruce as president, jon Monday who was Vice President of Takoma Records prior to the acquisition continued as General Manager, later becoming Director of Marketing of Chrysalis Records. Chrysalis made history in 1979 by creating the first music video album, in the 1980s, Chrysalis was at the forefront of the British New Romantic movement with bands such as Gen X, Ultravox, and Spandau Ballet. The 1980s proved to be the most successful time for the label, whose roster then included Billy Idol, Pat Benatar, Blondie and Huey Lewis, Chrysalis also distributed Animal Records, the short-lived label founded by Blondie guitarist Chris Stein. In 1983 Daniel Glass moved to Chrysalis as Director of New Music Marketing, advancing later to Senior Vice President. The Chrysalis Records label was sold 50% in 1990, then the half in 1991 to EMI with catalogue. Chrysalis Records folded into EMI subsidiary and flagship label EMI Records in 2005, the British Chrysalis catalogue was put up for sale by Universal Music Group after its acquisition of EMI. In July 2013, Warner Music Group completed acquisition of Parlophone Label Group, when Universal Music Group purchased EMI in 2012 ownership of Chrysalis passed to UMG. In 2013 Warner Music Group acquired part of EMI from UMG, in May 2016, Blue Raincoat Music purchased Chrysalis Records Ltd and the artist catalogue from Warner Music Group. Blue Raincoat founders Jeremy Lascelles and Robin Millar brought in Robert Devereux and this reunited founder Wright with the company he set up 47 years previously. Chris Wright is now non-executive Chairman of Chrysalis Records Ltd, since the acquisition from Warner Music Group, Chrysalis has acquired the catalogues of Suzi Quatro, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Athlete and Fun Lovin Criminals. Official site for Chrysalis Records UK at Blue Raincoat Music Ben Sisario, New York Times, Media Decoder blog,7 February 2013 Discogs page on Chrysalis Records
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Acid Eaters
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Acid Eaters is the 13th studio album by the American punk band the Ramones. Recorded in 1993, towards the end of the Ramones career, acid Eaters was not the first time that the Ramones had played or recorded cover songs. In the past, they had placed cover songs on almost every album to translate their favorite songs to the rock sound. Covers had always formed a part of the Ramones act. Acid Eaters, however, was the first complete set of covers, jan and Deans Surf City was performed live by the Ramones one time in August 20,1982 in New York City. Pete Townshend supplies backing vocals on the Who cover Substitute, while Traci Lords sings on Somebody to Love, the Ramones promoted the album on the first-season episode Bobcat of the animated Cartoon Network talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Note, The 1997 vinyl version has the songs, but a different track order. Ramones Joey Ramone – lead vocals Johnny Ramone – guitar C
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Dee Dee Ramone
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He was initially the bands lead vocalist, though his inability to sing and play bass at the same time resulted in original drummer Joey Ramone taking over the lead vocalist duties. Dee Dee was the bands bassist and songwriter from 1974 until 1989 and he soon returned to his punk roots and released three solo albums featuring brand-new songs, many of which were later recorded by the Ramones. He toured the world playing his new songs, Ramones songs and some old favorites in small clubs, and continued to write songs for the Ramones until 1996, Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager and continued to use for the majority of his adult life and he appeared clean in the early 1990s but began using heroin again sometime later. He died from an overdose on June 5,2002. Douglas Glenn Colvin was born on September 18,1951, in Fort Lee, Virginia, USA, he was the son of an American soldier, as an infant, his family relocated to Berlin, Germany, due to his fathers military service. His fathers military career also required the family to relocate frequently and these frequent moves caused Douglas to have a lonely childhood with few real friends. There he met John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi, then playing in a called the Tangerine Puppets. Bassist Monty Colvin from the metal band Galactic Cowboys is one of Dee Dees cousins. In 1978, he married Vera Boldis, according to Vera, Dee Dees struggles with mental illness and drug abuse put a strain on the couples relationship. They separated in 1990 before finalizing their divorce in 1995, by then, Dee Dee was making music as the Ramainz with his second wife, Barbara Zampini. Since his death, she continues to manage his estate, calling herself Barbara Ramone Zampini, Colvin, later Dee Dee, and Cummings, later Johnny, quickly became friends, as they were both social outcasts in their heavily middle-class neighborhood. After an unsuccessful audition for Television, Johnny convinced Dee Dee to form their own band with then-drummer Jeffrey Hyman, later Joey Ramone. Joey took over vocal duties after Dee Dee decided that he could not sing lead vocals for longer than a few songs as his voice shredded, Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each songs tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of 1-2-3-4. It was Dee Dee who first suggested naming the band the Ramones and he added an e to the end of that surname and the band members all agreed to adopt the surname Ramone as a means of conveying their unity. Dee Dee wrote or co-wrote much of the Ramones repertoire, such as 53rd and 3rd, Glad to See You Go, Its a Long Way Back, Chinese Rocks and Wart Hog. After he quit the Ramones, Dee Dee continued to write songs for them, the bands final studio album, 1995s ¡Adios Amigos. Features several of Dee Dees solo songs, such as Im Makin Monsters for My Friends and Its Not for Me to Know from his album I Hate Freaks Like You
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Tom Waits
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Thomas Alan Tom Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He has worked as a composer for movies and musicals and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and he also starred in Jim Jarmuschs 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on One from the Heart. Waits lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often seedy characters and places and he has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more artists, Jersey Girl, performed by Bruce Springsteen, Ol 55, by the Eagles. Although Waits albums have met with mixed success in his native United States. He has been nominated for a number of music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and he is also included among the 2010 list of Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Singers, as well as the 2015 list of Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Waits lives in Sonoma County, California, with his wife Kathleen Brennan, Waits was born at Park Avenue Hospital in Pomona, the son of schoolteachers Alma Fern McMurray and Jesse Frank Waits. After his parents divorced in 1960, he lived with his mother in Whittier, Waits, who taught himself how to play the piano on a neighbors instrument, often took trips to Mexico with his father, who taught Spanish. He would later say that he found his love of music during these trips through a Mexican ballad that was probably a Ranchera, you know, on the car radio with my dad. By 1965, while attending at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista and he later admitted that he was not a fan of the 1960s music scene, stating, I wasnt thrilled by Blue Cheer, so I found an alternative, even if it was Bing Crosby. Five years later, he was working as a doorman at the Heritage nightclub in San Diego, where artists of every genre performed, when he did his first paid gig for $6. A fan of Bob Dylan, Lord Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Louis Armstrong, Howlin Wolf, in 1971, Waits moved to the Echo Park neighborhood of L. A. and signed with Herb Cohen at the age of 21. From August to December 1971, Waits made a series of recordings for Zappa and Cohens Bizarre/Straight label. These early tracks were released 20 years later on The Early Years, Volume One, Waits signed to Asylum Records in 1972, and after numerous abortive recording sessions, his first record—the jazzy, folk-tinged Closing Time—was released in 1973. Lee Hazlewood became one of the first major artists to cover a Tom Waits song, using the title variation Those Were Days Of Roses on his album for Capitol, Poet, Fool, or Bum. Also in 1973, Tim Buckley released the album Sefronia, which contained another version of Waits song Martha from Closing Time
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Johnny Thunders
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John Anthony Genzale Jr. better known by his stage name Johnny Thunders, was an American rock and roll/punk rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of the New York Dolls and he later played with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist. Thunders was born John Anthony Genzale, Jr. in Queens, New York and his first musical performance was in the winter of 1967 with The Reign. In 1968 he began going to the Fillmore East and Bethesda Fountain in Central Park on weekends and his older sister, Mariann, started styling his hair like Keith Richards. In late 1969 he got a job as a clerk at DNaz leather shop, on Bleecker Street in the West Village. He and his girlfriend, Janis Cafasso, went to see The Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden in November 1969, in London, after the Isle of Wight Festival, the following summer, his girlfriend Janis fell sick and they flew home. Back in NYC from the UK, toward the end of 1970, he started hanging out at Nobodys and it was near there that he met future Dolls Arthur Kane and Rick Rivets. He joined their band Actress, which later, after firing Rivets and adding David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain and Billy Murcia and it was then that he adopted the stage name Johnny Thunders, inspired by a comic book hero. It was raunchy, nasty, rough, raw, and untamed, I thought it was truly inspired. Adding His sound was rich and fat and beautiful, like a voice, the New York Dolls were signed to Mercury Records, with the help of A & R man Paul Nelson. Thunders recorded two albums with the band, New York Dolls and Too Much Too Soon and they were managed by Marty Thau, and booked by Leber & Krebs. Subsequently they worked with Malcolm McLaren for several months, later becoming a prototype for the Sex Pistols. In 1975 Thunders and Nolan left the band, though Johansen and Sylvain continued playing, along with Peter Jordon, Tony Machine and Chris Robison, Thunders formed The Heartbreakers with former New York Dolls drummer Jerry Nolan and former Television bassist Richard Hell. Walter Lure, former guitarist for the New York City punk band The Demons was soon added, after conflict arose between Thunders and Hell, Hell left to form Richard Hell and the Voidoids and was replaced by Billy Rath. The group stayed in the UK throughout 1977, where their popularity was greater than in the U. S. particularly among punk bands. While in Britain they were signed to Track Records and released their official studio album. An abbreviation for Like A Mother Fucker, L. A. M. F. was received positively by critics and fans alike, but was criticised for its poor production. Displeased with the production, the members were soon competing with one other, mixing and remixing the record
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1916 (album)
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1916 is the ninth studio album by the band Motörhead, released 26 February 1991, on WTG Records, their first with the label. 1916 reached number 24 in UK charts and number 142 in the US, the single The One to Sing the Blues peaked at #45. In 1990, Motörhead vocalist and bassist Lemmy Kilmister moved from England to the U. S. settling in West Hollywood within walking distance of the Rainbow Bar and Grill. With Phil Carson managing the band, the sessions for what would become the album 1916 began with Ed Stasium, in the studio the band recorded four songs with the producer before deciding he had to go. When Lemmy listened to one of the mixes of Going to Brazil, he asked for him to turn up four tracks, Stasium was fired and Pete Solley was hired as producer. According to Stasium, Lemmys drug and alcohol intake had far exceeded the limitations of Stasiums patience so he quit,1916 was Motörheads first studio album in nearly four years, and their first release on WTG after their legal battle with GWR Records was resolved. Some of the songs on 1916 – including The One to Sing the Blues, Im So Bad, No Voices in the Sky, Going to Brazil and Shut You Down – were originally performed live on Motörheads 1989 and 1990 tours. The title track, a slow ballad in which Lemmys singing is only lightly accompanied, is a tribute to. I wrote the words before the music and its about the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Nineteen thousand Englishmen were killed before noon, a whole generation destroyed, in three hours – think about that. Both bands have cited as iconoclast groups that ignored musical trends. In the 2002 book Hey Ho Lets Go, The Story of the Ramones, in the albums liner notes, the band says. to the people we left behind – we didnt want to leave ya, but we really had to go. This album is the better for it, stale and on a treadmill in our career, a change was needed. We decided a change of locale was an idea to try, and we think its done us good musicially, due to an unintentional oversight, the French, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Portuguese flags were not featured on the album artwork. Love Me Forever was later covered by Doro Pesch, and Beyond the Black, the Yugoslavian release of the album on ZKP-RTVL was the final record to be released in Slovenia prior to its independence and the renaming of the label to ZKP-RTVS. 1916 was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the 1992 Grammys, but lost to Metallicas Metallica, the LP received mostly positive reviews. Robert Christgau gave the album an A- calling the album. sonically retrograde, entertainment Weekly awarded the album an A+. In the Motörhead documentary The Guts and the Glory, Lemmy states. That was really the album for Motörhead,1916. It got great reviews. All tracks written by Kilmister, Burston, Campbell, Taylor except where noted
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Spider-Man (1967 TV series)
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Spider-Man was an animated television series in the superhero genre. The first two aired on the ABC television network, and the third was distributed in syndication. Grantray-Lawrence Animation produced the first season, and seasons two and three were produced by Krantz Films in New York City, the show starred Paul Soles as Peter Parker. The series ran from September 9,1967 to June 14,1970, the series revolved around teenager Peter Parker, a college student who develops extraordinary strength and spider-like powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider. Parker decides to become a crime-fighting, costumed superhero, but must deal with family tragedies, personal problems, as Spider-Man, Parker risks his life to fight super-powered criminals such as Doctor Octopus, Mysterio and the Green Goblin. Peter is also a photographer for the Daily Bugle, but editor J. Jonah Jameson considers Spider-Man a criminal. Peters life, apart from the Bugle office and his Aunt Mays Forest Hills home, was dealt with in early episodes. Although he was never seen at college, he would sometimes visit professors he knew, Stan Lee was the story consultant for this season. Because of the limited budget, Spider-Mans costume only has webbed areas on his head, arms and boots. The series relied on reused stock animation, including Spider-Man swinging across the New York City skyline, the second and third seasons were produced on a reduced budget by Krantz Films under Ralph Bakshi. The cost-cutting is most apparent in the season, with two episodes reusing almost all the footage from two Rocket Robin Hood episodes and remaking previous episodes with minimal changes. An error in Spider-Mans costume appeared throughout season one, with the spider on his costume having only six legs, by season two new drawings of the costume showed an eight-legged spider but reused footage from season one continued that seasons error. The second- and third-season episodes had a tone, with dark-colored settings, psychedelic images. He dated a variety of women who were either concealing secrets or waited angrily for him while Spider-Man saved the city from destruction, the shows theme song has become a popular standard. Its lyrics were written by Academy-Award winner Paul Francis Webster, with music composed by Bob Harris, the song is most recognized by its opening line, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can. It was recorded at RCA Studios in Toronto, where the series was co-produced, the 2002 and 2004 film versions included Jayce Bartok and Elyse Dinh, respectively, busking the song. Both films have the song at the end of the credits, the 2002 adaptation featured the original 1967 recording, 2007s Spider-Man 3 features a performance of the song by a marching band at a public rally for Spider-Man. In 2014s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Peter uses a version of the theme as his ringtone, the shows incidental music uses jangling surf guitar, brass lines and jazzy scoring
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Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits
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Saturday Morning, Cartoons Greatest Hits is a tribute album of songs from Saturday morning children’s television shows and cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s. The project was produced by Ralph Sall, with the performed by alternative rock artists. It was released in 1995 by MCA on LP, CD, and cassette, promotion for the album included a comic book from Marvel Comics and a music video collection hosted by Drew Barrymore. All tracks produced by Ralph Sall for Bulletproof Recording Company Inc, executive Producer/Concept, Ralph Sall for Bulletproof Recording Company Inc. Engineered by Peter McCabe and Larry Fergusson, mixed by Peter McCabe, Larry Ferguson and Ralph Sall. Carl Nappa, Luis Quine, Adam Rhodes, Rail Rogut, Mi Hael Scotella, Dave Schiffman, Krish Sharma, Bill Smith, Rick Roone, Mark Yeend, mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering, Los Angeles, California. Saturday Morning, Cartoons Greatest Hits at AllMusic
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C. J. Ramone
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He is one of the three surviving members of the Ramones, along with two of their drummers Marky Ramone and Richie Ramone. Christopher J. Ward was born in Queens, New York City, though he lived in Deer Park and he attended Ss. Cyril and Methodius School and graduated from Deer Park High School in 1983. Prior to joining the Ramones, Ward served in the United States Marine Corps and he also played in Guitar Petes Axe Attack, Los Gusanos, Bad Chopper. CJ Ramone released the album Reconquista on June 29,2012, Ward replaced original band member Dee Dee Ramone, though Dee Dee continued to write songs for the group. C. J. sang many well-known Ramones songs and gave the band a younger image. In the documentary End of the Century, The Story of the Ramones it is stated that when C. J. joined the Ramones he was seen as a breath of air into the band. Johnny Ramone says he knew immediately when C. J. auditioned to replace Dee Dee that he was right, when the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame original Ramones drummer, Tommy Ramone, credited C. J. with keeping the band young. C. J. Ramone was the youngest member of the Ramones when he joined and he played with the band until they retired on August 6,1996. C. J. has used Ampeg Amplification throughout his career, prior to joining The Ramones, C. J. played an early 70s Fender Jazz Bass and always played with his fingers. When he joined the Ramones, they gave him a black Mexican Fender Precision Bass, with a white pickguard and a maple neck and he also had two cream Fender Precision basses, one with a white pickguard and another with a black. He then bought a white American Fender Precision with a white pickguard, then he finally got a vintage 1979 Fender Precision, like the basses that Dee Dee used to play. He would use that bass mainly the rest of his time with the Ramones, while in the Ramones, C. J. had a custom-made Mosrite Bass made for him by Semie Mosley, white with a tortoise shell Pick guard. He used it in Bad Chopper and he has since sold this bass. He then used a Mosrite bass that he designed with Mr. Yuasa of the Filmore Company and it was white with a black pick guard. This bass was stolen when he toured Japan in February 2010, before the Ramones, Ward played in a heavy metal band called Guitar Petes Axe Attack, where he appeared on two albums. In 1992, while still with the Ramones, he started a rock band named Los Gusanos. They released a few singles before releasing their album in 1997. After the Ramones retirement Ward played a few shows with the Ramainz, the band broke up in summer 2009
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Allosaurus
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Allosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period. The name Allosaurus means different lizard and it is derived from the Greek ἄλλος/allos and σαῦρος/sauros. The first fossil remains that could definitively be ascribed to this genus, were described in 1877 by paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh and these remains became known as Antrodemus. As one of the first well-known theropod dinosaurs, it has attracted attention outside of paleontological circles. Indeed, it has been a top feature in several films, Allosaurus was a large bipedal predator. Its skull was large and equipped with dozens of sharp, serrated teeth and it averaged 8.5 m in length, though fragmentary remains suggest it could have reached over 12 m. Relative to the large and powerful hindlimbs, its forelimbs were small. It is classified as an allosaurid, a type of carnosaurian theropod dinosaur, the genus has a complicated taxonomy, and includes an uncertain number of valid species, the best known of which is A. fragilis. The bulk of Allosaurus remains have come from North Americas Morrison Formation, with also known from Portugal. Potential prey included ornithopods, stegosaurids, and sauropods and it may have attacked large prey by ambush, using its upper jaw like a hatchet. Allosaurus was a large theropod, having a massive skull on a short neck. Allosaurus fragilis, the species, had an average length of 8.5 m, with the largest definitive Allosaurus specimen estimated at 9.7 meters long. In his 1976 monograph on Allosaurus, James Madsen mentioned a range of sizes which he interpreted to show a maximum length of 12 to 13 m. As with dinosaurs in general, weight estimates are debatable, several gigantic specimens have been attributed to Allosaurus, but may in fact belong to other genera. Another potential specimen of Allosaurus, once assigned to the genus Epanterias, a more recent discovery is a partial skeleton from the Peterson Quarry in Morrison rocks of New Mexico, this large allosaurid may be another individual of Saurophaganax. The skull and teeth of Allosaurus were modestly proportioned for a theropod of its size, paleontologist Gregory S. Paul gives a length of 845 mm for a skull belonging to an individual he estimates at 7.9 m long. Each premaxilla, held five teeth with D-shaped cross-sections, and each maxilla had between 14 and 17 teeth, the number of teeth does not exactly correspond to the size of the bone, each dentary had between 14 and 17 teeth, with an average count of 16. The teeth became shorter, narrower, and more curved toward the back of the skull, all of the teeth had saw-like edges
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Sombrero
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Sombrero in English refers to a type of wide-brimmed hat popularly worn in Mexico, used to shield from the sun. It usually has a pointed crown, an extra-wide brim. Cowboys generalized the word to mean just about any wide broad-brimmed hat, sombreros, like the cowboy hats invented later, were designed in response to the demands of the physical environment. The concept of a hat worn by a rider on horseback can be seen as far back as the Mongolian horsemen of the 13th century. In hot, sunny climates hats evolved to have wide brims, the Spanish developed a flat-topped sombrero, which they brought to Mexico. It was modified by the vaquero into the round-crowned Mexican sombrero, other types of hats known as sombrero can be found in South America and Spain, including the sombrero calañés, sombrero cordobés and sombrero de catite, sombrero vueltiao. Many early Texan cowboys adopted the Spanish and Mexican sombrero with its crown and wide. Also called the poblano, these came from Spain. The Mexican variation of the added an even wider brim. These are the hats worn by musicians and charros. Both types of sombreros usually include a barboquejo or chin strap, in the Western United States, the sombrero had a high conical or cylindrical crown with a saucer-shaped brim, highly embroidered and made of plush felt. Sombreros are also present in Philippine history, due to the influence from Spain brought about by the Manila galleon trade, the term has been assimilated into the Tagalog language in the form of sumbrero and now refers to any hat – from actual sombreros to baseball caps. The galaxy Messier 104 is known as the Sombrero Galaxy due to its appearance, in 2016, colleges and other venues criticized students for wearing sombreros, along with other ethnic clothing and traditions, citing cultural appropriation. Boss of the plains Chupalla Ranch Vaquero Western wear Sun hat
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Mark Kostabi
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Kalev Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer. Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles on November 27,1960, to Estonian immigrants Kaljo and he was raised in Whittier, California and studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton. Kostabi is also known for his collaborations with other artists including Enzo Cucchi, Arman, Howard Finster, Tadanori Yokoo, Enrico Baj. Retrospective exhibitions of Kostabis paintings have been held at the Mitsukoshi Museum in Tokyo, matteo Editore published a book on Kostabi titled Mark Kostabi and the East Village scene 1983–1987 written by Baird Jones. A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Other Costly Commodities by James Gardner, in 1986 Kostabi designed the Bloomingdales shopping bag. By 1987 his works were exhibited in New York galleries and throughout the United States, in Japan, Germany. In 1988, inspiring extensive international press coverage, he founded Kostabi World, his large New York studio known for openly employing numerous painting assistants and idea people. His compositions have also performed independently by Rein Rannap, Kristjan Järvi, Maano Männi, Delilah Gutman. His debut album, I Did It Steinway was released on Artists Only Records in October 1998, produced by Dale Ashley & Charles Coleman, the album features original compositions by Kostabi, and was recorded entirely at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City. Kostabis other releases include, Songs For Sumera, New Alliance, The Spectre Of Modernism, Kostabeat, in 1989, Kostabis paintings were featured prominently in an episode of Miami Vice as the subject of the plot, The Lost Madonna. In 1991, Kostabi was mentioned in the controversial and widely discussed novel, American Psycho, in the 2016 Broadway musical version of American Psycho, Kostabi is mentioned twice, in the context of a commentary of Americas brand obsession. From the year 2000 to 2010 Kostabi wrote a column for artists. Kostabi has a prominent role in the Emmy award winning documentary The Art of Failure, full Circle, The Kostabi Story, directed by Sabrina Digregorio for Atena Films, has premiered at Anthology Films Archives in New York and at Domus Talenti in Rome. The noted art critic Achille Bonito Oliva has a prominent role as narrator/commentator in the film, Kostabi produces a weekly cable TV show, The Kostabi Show, where noted art critics and celebrities compete to title his paintings for cash awards. The Kostabi Show was previously known as both Name That Painting and Title This, sadness because the video rental store was closed & other stories. Kalev Mark Kostabi, the early years, others include, The Rhythm of Inspiration, Mark Kostabi and the East Village Scene 1983–1987 and Mark Kostabi in the 21st Century. Life, The Movie, How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Publisher Penguin Random House Culture or Trash
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc. that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Different from celebrity-focused publications like Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW primarily concentrates on entertainment media news, however, unlike Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience. The first issue was published on February 16,1990, the cover price was $1.95 The title word entertainment was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics, Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor and table of contents in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television and these beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. First Look, subtitled An early peek at some of Hollywoods coolest projects, is a spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies. The Hit List, written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week. The Hollywood Insider is a section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the columns, on the most-current news in television, movie. The Style Report is a section devoted to celebrity style. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is rich in nature. Recently, the converted to a new format, five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week. A spin-off section, Style Hunter, which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently. The Monitor is a two-page spread devoted to events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary titled Legacy and this feature is nearly identical to sister publication Peoples Passages feature. Harris column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns, harris has written about the writers strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics
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Q (magazine)
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Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. Q was first published by the EMAP media group in October 1986, setting apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography. In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled The modern guide to music, originally it was to be called Cue, but the name was changed so that it wouldnt be mistaken for a snooker magazine. Another reason, cited in Qs 200th edition, is that a title would be more prominent on newsstands. In January 2008 EMAP sold its consumer titles, including Q. The magazine has a review section, featuring, new releases, reissues, music compilations, film and live concert reviews, as well as radio. It uses a system from one to five stars, indeed. While its content is non-free they host an archive of all of their magazine covers, much of the magazine is devoted to interviews with popular musical artists. It is well known for compiling lists and it has created many, ranging from The 100 Greatest albums to the 100 Greatest 100 Greatest Lists. Every other month, Q — and its magazine, Mojo — have a special edition. These have been about musical times, genres, or a very important/influential musician, often, promotional gifts are given away, such as cover-mounted CDs or books. The January 2006 issue included a copy of The Greatest Rock. Every issue of Q has a different message on the spine, readers then try to work out what the message has to do with the contents of the mag. This practice — known as the spine line — has since become commonplace among British lifestyle magazines, including Qs sister publication, Empire, on 4 March 2007, Q named Elvis Presley the greatest singer of all time. The magazine has a relationship with the Glastonbury Festival, producing both a free daily newspaper on site during the festival and a review magazine available at the end of the festival. In late 2008 Q revamped its image, with an amount of text. This Rolling Stone-isation has led to criticism from much of the traditional Q readership, in 2006, Q published a readers survey, the 100 Greatest Songs Ever, won by Oasis Live Forever. Q has a history of associating with charitable organisations, and in 2006 the British anti-poverty charity War on Want was named its official charity, in the April 2007 issue, Q published an article containing the 100 Greatest Singers, won by Elvis Presley
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Robert Christgau
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Robert Thomas Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed Dean of American Rock Critics. One of the earliest professional rock critics, he spent 37 years as the music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice. He has also covered popular music for Esquire, Creem, Newsday, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Blender, and MSN Music, and is a visiting arts teacher at New York University. Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, first published in his Consumer Guide columns during his tenure at The Village Voice from 1969 to 2006 and he has written three books based on those columns, along with two collections of essays. He continued writing capsule reviews in MSN Music, Cuepoint, Christgau was born in Greenwich Village and grew up in Queens, the son of a fireman. He has said he became a rock and roll fan when disc jockey Alan Freed moved to the city in 1954. After attending a school in New York City, he left New York for four years to attend Dartmouth College. While at college his musical interests turned to jazz, but he returned to rock after moving back to New York. Christgau has said that Miles Davis 1960 album Sketches of Spain initiated in him one phase of the disillusionment with jazz that resulted in my return to rock and he was deeply influenced by New Journalism writers such as Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe. My ambitions when I went into journalism were always, to an extent, literary, Christgau initially wrote short stories, before giving up fiction in 1964 to become a sportswriter, and later, a police reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger. He became a writer after a story he wrote about the death of a woman in New Jersey was published by New York magazine. He was asked to take over the dormant music column at Esquire, after Esquire discontinued the column, Christgau moved to The Village Voice in 1969, and he also worked as a college professor. In early 1972, he accepted a job as music critic for Newsday. Christgau returned to the Village Voice in 1974 as music editor and he remained there until August 2006, when he was fired shortly after the papers acquisition by New Times Media. Two months later, Christgau became an editor at Rolling Stone. Late in 2007, Christgau was fired by Rolling Stone, although he continued to work for the magazine for three months. Starting with the March 2008 issue, he joined Blender, where he was listed as senior critic for three issues and then contributing editor, Christgau had been a regular contributor to Blender before he joined Rolling Stone. He continued to write for Blender until the magazine ceased publication in March 2009, in 1987, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Folklore and Popular Culture to study the history of popular music
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Uncut (magazine)
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Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, a DVD magazine under the Uncut brand was published quarterly from 2005 to 2006. Uncut was launched in May 1997 as a magazine aimed at 25- to 45-year-old men that focuses on music and movies. Jones has stated that he idea for Uncut came from my own disenchantment about what I was doing with Melody Maker, according to IPC Media, 86% of the magazines readers are male and their average age is 37 years. Uncuts contents include lengthy features on old albums, interviews with directors, music and film news. Its music features tend to focus on such as Americana, rock. Each month the magazine includes a free CD, which may include new and older music. Uncut underwent a redesign in May 2006, as a result of which the magazine no longer catered for books. Allan Jones writes a monthly column, recounting stories from his long career in music journalism. Uncuts monthly circulation has dropped from over 90,000 in 2007 to 47,890 in the half of 2015. Uncut often produces themed spin-off titles celebrating the career of one artist and this series has been known as Uncut Legends. Artists who have so far had magazines entirely devoted to them include Radiohead, Kurt Cobain, U2, Bruce Springsteen, the Lennon magazine was produced to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the former Beatle. The majority of titles have been produced by magazine editor Chris Hunt. The series started in 2003 with an issue devoted to Bob Dylan. In 2008 Uncut launched their inaugural Uncut Music Award, which is described as a quest to find the most inspiring and rewarding experience of the past 12 months. A list of 25 nominees is selected by a panel of 10 judges, who are all musicians or music industry professionals, past winners have included Fleet Foxes, Tinariwen, Paul Weller and P. J. Harvey. In late 2005, Allan Jones and publishing director Andrew Sumner launched a spin-off of the movies and music magazine. Billed as the great movie magazine, Uncut DVD was designed to compete with such established titles as Ultimate DVD, DVD Review
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Joey Ramone
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Jeffrey Ross Hyman, known professionally as Joey Ramone, was an American musician and singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones. Joey Ramones image, voice, and tenure as frontman of the Ramones made him a countercultural icon, Jeffrey Ross Hyman was born on May 19,1951, in Queens, New York to a Jewish family. His parents are Charlotte and Noel Hyman, the family lived in Forest Hills, Queens New York where Hyman and his future Ramones bandmates attended Forest Hills High School. Though happy, Hyman was something of an outcast, diagnosed at 18 with obsessive–compulsive disorder and he grew up with his brother Mickey Leigh. His mother, Charlotte Lesher, divorced her first husband, Noel Hyman and she married a second time but was widowed by a car accident while she was on vacation. Hyman was a fan of the Beatles, the Who, David Bowie, and the Stooges among other bands, particularly oldies and his idol was Pete Townshend of the Who, with whom he shared a birthday. Hyman took up the drums at 13, and played throughout his teen years before picking up an acoustic guitar at age 17. In 1972 Hyman joined the punk band Sniper. Sniper played at the Mercer Arts Center, Maxs Kansas City and the Coventry, alongside the New York Dolls, Suicide, Hyman played with Sniper under the name Jeff Starship. Mickey Leigh, I was shocked when the band came out, Joey was the lead singer and I couldnt believe how good he was. Because hed been sitting in my house with my guitar, writing these songs like I Dont Care, fucking up my guitar. Hyman continued playing with Sniper until early 1974, when he was replaced by Alan Turner, in 1974, Jeffrey Hyman co-founded the punk rock band the Ramones with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin. Colvin was already using the pseudonym Dee Dee Ramone and the others also adopted stage names using Ramone as their surname, Cummings became Johnny Ramone, Joey initially served as the groups drummer while Dee Dee Ramone was the original vocalist. However, when Dee Dees vocal cords proved unable to sustain the demands of consistent live performances, Ramones manager Thomas Erdelyi suggested Joey switch to vocals. After a series of auditions in search of a new drummer, Erdelyi took over on drums. The Ramones were an influence on the punk rock movement in the United States. Their only record with enough U. S. sales to be certified gold was the compilation album Ramones Mania, in 2002, the Ramones were voted the second greatest rock and roll band ever in Spin, trailing only the Beatles. In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, Ramones voice was within a tenor range, and it was unorthodox in that he had no formal training in an era when vocal proficiency was arguably the norm for most rock bands
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Garrett Uhlenbrock
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Garrett Uhlenbrock, aka Skinny Bones is a punk rock musician and songwriter, best known for co-writing songs for the New York based band, the Ramones. Record producer Bill Laswell introduced Uhlenbrock to Dee Dee Ramone in 1989, in 1990 Uhlenbrock and Dee Dee Ramone co-wrote the first version of Poison Heart, which was later recorded by the Ramones on their Mondo Bizarro album. Shortly after Uhlenbrock wrote The Job That Ate My Brain, and Anxiety with Marky Ramone for the same Ramones album, in 1995, Uhlenbrock and Marky Ramone co-wrote Have A Nice Day, which was recorded by the Ramones for the ¡Adios Amigos. Anxiety and Have A Nice Day were the shortest songs on both records, in 1996, Uhlenbrock played guitar on the album, About to Choke, by Vic Chesnutt for Capitol Records. Two years later he played guitar on the V2 Records album, Deserters Songs. In 1996, he and Marky Ramone founded the band called Marky Ramone and that same year they released the self-titled album on Blackout. The cover art of this album is a poster for the 1958 science fiction movie Attack of the 50 ft. Woman. In November 1996 the band went to Brazil, and opened for the Sex Pistols during their first reunion tour Filthy Lucre Tour, in 1999 their second album The Answer to Your Problems. One song featured guest vocals was by the ex-singer of The Runaways, in 2009 Uhlenbrock recorded Shot My TV with his group Skinny Bones and the Gonedaddys for the Italian punk label, Nicotine Records
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Johnny Ramone
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John William Cummings, known professionally as Johnny Ramone, was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for being the lead guitarist for the punk rock band the Ramones. He was a member of the band, and remained a member throughout the bands entire career. He died from cancer on September 15,2004. In 2003, he appeared on Times The 10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players and he is also ranked number 28 on the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list in the Rolling Stone magazine. John William Cummings was born in Queens on October 8,1948 and he was the only child of a construction worker, of Irish descent. He was raised in the Forest Hills, Queens neighborhood of New York City, as a teenager, Johnny played in a band called the Tangerine Puppets alongside future Ramones drummer Tamás Erdélyi. As a teenager, he was known as a greaser, though he was described as a tie-dye-wearing Stooges fan. He was a lifelong New York Yankees fan and he also worked as a plumber with his father before the Ramones became successful, and at one point attended military school and briefly attended college in Florida. He met future bandmate Douglas Colvin, later to become Dee Dee Ramone and they would eat lunch together and discuss their mutual love of bands like the Stooges and MC5. Together they went to Mannys Music in New York City in January 1974, on the same trip, Dee Dee bought a Danelectro bass. They collaborated with future bandmate Jeffrey Hyman, later to become Joey Ramone, Stern left after a few rehearsals. Tommy joined the Ramones in the summer of that year after public auditions failed to produce a satisfactory drummer, Johnny was responsible for initiating one of the major sources of animosity within the band when he began dating and later married Linda Daniele, who had previously dated Joey. Though the band remained together for years after this incident, relations between Johnny and Joey remained strained, years later, when Joey was in the hospital dying of cancer, Johnny refused to telephone him. He later discussed this incident in the film End of the Century, The Story of the Ramones and he did add that he was depressed for a week after Joeys death. When pressed, acknowledged that this was because of the bond forged by the band, in their road manager Monte Melnicks book about his time with the Ramones, Johnny is quoted as having said, Im not doing anything without him. Alongside his music career, Johnny appeared in nearly a dozen films and he also made television appearances on such shows as The Simpsons and Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Johnny was known for his fast, high-energy guitar playing and his style consisted of rapid downstrokes, power chords, and barre chord shapes. Ed Stasium once stated Johnny makes it simple, but I cant do it
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Marky Ramone
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Marky Ramone is an American musician. He is best known for being the drummer of the rock band the Ramones, from May 1978 until February 1983. He has also played in other bands, including the Misfits, Dust, Estus. Marky Ramones tenure with the Ramones lasted 15 years and he is the only living member inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the only living member to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 Marky released his autobiography Punk Rock Blitzkrieg, My Life as a Ramone, Bell started playing drums in 1971 with a hard rock band, Dust, which included Kenny Aaronson on bass and Richie Wise on guitar, and was produced by Kenny Kerner. Bell recorded two albums with the band, before getting into the punk scene, in 1973, Marky joined Estus and recorded an album named the same. Produced by the first Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham. Bandmates for Estus included Harry Rumpf and Tom and John Nicholas. In the mid-1970s, Bell joined Richard Hell & the Voidoids and he played on the Voidoids first album, Blank Generation. In May 1978, Tommy Ramone asked Bell if he would join the Ramones, he accepted and was renamed, Marky Ramone was with the Ramones for the next five years. He starred in the movie Rock n Roll High School and recorded the Ramones anthem and he also worked with legendary producer Phil Spector. After recording five albums with Dee Dee, Joey, and Johnny Ramone and he returned clean and sober in August 1987, and played 1700 shows and recorded 10 studio albums with the band up until their retirement in August 1996. In 1996, Marky Ramone joined Dee Dee to form the Ramainz, in 2000, Marky Ramone joined Joey to record Joeys solo album, entitled Dont Worry About Me. Joey Ramone told talk show host Joe Franklin that Marky was his favorite drummer along with Keith Moon, in 1997 and 1999 Marky recorded two albums with his solo band Marky Ramone & the Intruders. In 2001, he was presented with an achievement award from MTV by U2 singer Bono. Much of the footage is courtesy of Marky Ramones personal video library. Ramones, Raw is also the highest charting release in Ramones history, on April 22,2008, Marky Ramone appeared on a new CD in Canada playing drums with the Canadian punk band called Teenage Head. The CD is called Teenage Head with Marky Ramone and it was released in the USA on June 10,2008, Ramone also played Rock in Rio, on September 14,2013. Marky Ramone continues to tour the world, since 2005, he has hosted the show Punk Rock Blitzkrieg on Sirius XM. In 1993, Marky Ramone appeared with the Ramones in the episode Rosebud of The Simpsons, in October 2001, Marky appeared on MTV accepting his lifetime achievement award presented by Bono of U2
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Tommy Ramone
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Thomas Erdelyi, known professionally as Tommy Ramone, was a Hungarian American record producer, musician, and songwriter. He was the drummer for the punk rock band the Ramones for the first four years of the bands existence. Tamás Erdélyi was born on January 29,1949, in Budapest and he was born to Jewish parents, professional photographers, who had survived the Holocaust by being hidden by neighbors, many of his relatives were murdered by the Nazis, though. The family left Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in 1957, he emigrated with his family to the United States. Initially settling in the South Bronx, the family moved up to the suburb of Forest Hills in Queens. Forest Hills was the place where Tamás grew up and he changed his name to Thomas Erdelyi. In high school, Tommy played guitar in a mid-1960s four-piece garage band, the Tangerine Puppets, with a schoolmate and guitarist, John Cummings, the future Johnny Ramone. After leaving school, at 18, he started working as an assistant engineer at the Record Plant studio, Tommy Ramone, who was managing us, finally had to sit down behind the drums, because nobody else wanted to, Dee Dee later recalled. He remained as drummer from 1974 to 1978, playing on and his final show as a Ramones drummer was at Johnny Blitz benefit event at CBGBs in New York, USA on May 4,1978. In a 2007 interview with the BBC, Ramone said the band had been influenced by 1970s hard-rock band the New York Dolls, by singer-songwriter Lou Reed. He said, The scene that developed at CBGB wasnt a teenage or garage band, there was an intellectual element, Tommy Ramone wrote I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend and the majority of Blitzkrieg Bop while bassist Dee Dee suggested the title. He and Ed Stasium played all the solos on the albums he produced. In the 1980s he produced the Replacements album Tim, as well as Redd Krosss Neurotica and he returned to the producers chair in 2002, overseeing the reunion of former Ramones C. J. and Marky for their recording of Jed Davis Joey Ramone tribute The Bowery Electric. On October 8,2004, he played as a Ramone once again, when he joined C. J. Ramone, Daniel Rey and they werent the type to phone it in, if you see what I mean. Ramone and Claudia Tienan performed as a folk duo called Uncle Monk. Ramone stated, There are a lot of similarities between punk and old-time music, both are home-brewed music as opposed to schooled, and both have an earthy energy. And anybody can pick up an instrument and start playing and he joined songwriter Chris Castle, Garth Hudson, Larry Campbell and the Womack Family Band in July 2011 at Levon Helm Studios for Castles album Last Bird Home. Ramone died at his home in Ridgewood, Queens, New York on July 11,2014 and he had received hospice care following unsuccessful treatment for bile duct cancer
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Richie Ramone
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Richie Ramone is an American drummer best known for being the drummer for the iconic punk band the Ramones, from February 1983 until August 1987. He was the only Ramones drummer to be credited as the composer and writer of 6 Ramones songs. Reinhardt joined the Ramones in February 1983 before the release of Subterranean Jungle, in his first months with the group he broke the tradition of adopting the Ramones surname and instead performed under the stage name Richie Beau. However, by the time of his first recordings with the band he had switched to the name Richie Ramone. Richies songs Im Not Jesus and Somebody Put Something in my Drink have been covered by new generations of bands worldwide, particularly bands like Children of Bodom. Richie was the drummer to sing lead vocals on Ramones songs, including Can’t Say Anything Nice. Ramones quintessential frontman and punk rock icon Joey Ramone said of Richie, Richies very talented and he really strengthened the band a hundred percent because he sings backing tracks, he sings lead, and he sings with Dee Dees stuff. In the past, it was always just me singing for the most part, Richie performed over 500 shows with the Ramones all over the world, including South America, where rabid Richie fans held up signs proclaiming Richie and Drink. The relationship of the Ramones members was often rocky, as documented in 22-year tour manager Monte Melnick’s book, On the Road with the Ramones, and Mickey Leigh’s book, I Slept with Joey Ramone. However, Richie enjoyed close bonds with songwriter/bassist Dee Dee Ramone and Joey Ramone who stated, he’s the greatest thing to happen to the Ramones. He put the back in the band. ”Richie left the band abruptly in August 1987. According to interviews in the film End of the Century, The Story of the Ramones, subsequently, Richie worked on some of Dee Dees solo recordings. He was briefly replaced by Elvis Ramone, after Elvis played just two gigs, Richies predecessor Marky Ramone rejoined the band and stayed until the band broke up in 1996. In September 2007, Richie filed a lawsuit entitled Reinhardt v. Wal-mart Stores. He alleged that the copyright on the six tunes he wrote for the Ramones had been infringed when the bands management licensed the recordings for sale as digital downloads. The defendants were Wal-mart Stores, Inc, estate of John Cummings, Herzog & Strauss, and Ira Herzog Judge Shira A. Indeed there were, and the resulted in Richie Ramone obtaining full writing and publishing rights to the songs he wrote while in the Ramones. Richie is still actively involved with music, as a composer
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Ramones (album)
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Ramones is the debut studio album by American punk rock band the Ramones, released on April 23,1976 by Sire Records. After Hit Parader editor Lisa Robinson saw the band at a gig in New York City, she wrote them in an article and contacted Danny Fields. Fields agreed and convinced Craig Leon to produce Ramones, and the recorded a demo for prospective record labels. Leon persuaded Sire president Seymour Stein to listen to the band perform, the Ramones began recording in January 1976, needing only seven days and $6,400 to record the album. They used similar techniques to those of the Beatles and used advanced production methods by Leon. The album cover, photographed by Punk magazines Roberta Bayley, features the four members leaning against a wall in New York City. The record company paid only $125 for the front photo, which has become one of the most imitated album covers of all time. The back cover depicts a belt buckle along with the albums liner notes. After its release, Ramones was promoted two singles which failed to chart. The Ramones also began touring to sell records, these tour dates were mostly based in the United States. Violence, drug use, relationship issues, humor, and Nazism were prominent in the albums lyrics, the album opens with Blitzkrieg Bop, which is among the bands most recognized songs. Most of the tracks are uptempo, with many songs measuring at well over 160 beats per minute. The songs are rather short, at two-and-a-half minutes, I Dont Wanna Go Down to the Basement is the albums longest track. Ramones contains a cover of the Chris Montez song Lets Dance, Ramones peaked at No.111 on the US Billboard 200 and was unsuccessful commercially, initially, it received mixed reviews from the few critics who wrote about it. However, many deemed it a highly influential record, and it has since received many accolades. Ramones went on to many bands like the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks. Aside from sparking the punk-rock scene in both the US and the UK, it has had a significant impact on genres of rock music, such as grunge. The album was ranked at number 33 in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2012 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2014, the Ramones began playing gigs in mid-1974, with their first show at Performance Studios in New York City
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Leave Home
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Leave Home is the second studio album by American punk rock band the Ramones. It was released on January 10,1977, through Sire Records, songs on the album were written immediately after the bands first albums writing process, which demonstrated the bands progression. The album had a production value than their debut Ramones. The front photo was taken by Moshe Brakha and the back cover, the album spawned three singles, but only one succeeded in charting. It was also promoted with several dates in the United States. The songs in Leave Home concentrate on themes, with the musical tones being diverse as well. Some tunes were more pop-oriented, while others, like Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment, the song Carbona Not Glue was taken off the album because it potentially violated the trademark of the stain-removal product Carbona. The track was replaced with Babysitter in the United Kingdom and Sheena Is a Punk Rocker in the United States, critical reception for the album was generally favorable, with several reviewers pointing out the fact that it highly resembled the bands debut album. Critics also said the album was less groundbreaking than their debut but had humorous, the album peaked at 148 on the Billboard 200 despite its critical acclaim as well as the band members expecting more commercial success. The writing and structure are somewhat more sophisticated than the songs on their previous record. Guitarist Johnny Ramone relates, We recorded them in the order they were written, most of the songs were written in the band members homes, rather than at a studio, Suzy Is a Headbanger was written in drummer Tommy Ramones loft apartment. I wrote most of the stuff I contributed at my apartment in Forest Hills before I left, I had no amp at home, just an electric guitar. I recorded it onto a cassette and played back at rehearsal. We had better production, we were playing a little faster and we were in really good shape for that album. Recorded October 1976 in New York City at Sundragon Studios through Sire Records, Sire set their budget at about $10,000 hiring Tony Bongiovi to produce the album, and Tommy Ramone to co-produce. More emphasis was placed on the mixing and engineering than their debut album. With a more fine-tuned and exceptional sound, Leave Home also presented a production value superior to other rock bands at the time. Author Joe S. Harrington called the bands production brilliant, the title Leave Home refers to the Ramones leaving New York City to go on tour around the world
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Rocket to Russia
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Rocket to Russia is the third studio album by the American punk rock band the Ramones, and was released on November 4,1977, through Sire Records. Its origins date back to the summer of 1977, when Sheena Is a Punk Rocker was released as a single and that summer was known as the peak of the punk rock genre since many punk bands were offered recording contracts. The albums cover art was directed by John Gillespie, the subject matter of songs varied throughout the album, though nearly all the tracks on the album incorporated humor into the lyrics. The musical style showed more of a rock influence. The album received positive reception, with critics appreciating the matured production. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine called it his favorite Ramones album as it contained several hooks, the album was not as commercially successful as the band had hoped, peaking at number 49 on the Billboard 200. Band members blamed the Sex Pistols for their lack of sales and this is the last album to feature original drummer Tommy Ramone who left the band in 1978 to work solely on production. The album was ranked at number 106 in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2012, in the summer of 1977, Sheena Is a Punk Rocker was released as a single, being an outtake from the bands previous release, Leave Home. This period was significant to the punk rock genre, as it was the initial wave of New York Citys underground punk bands retrieving recording contracts. New York-based clubs CBGB and Maxs Kansas City began to see bigger audiences crowd in to hear these bands. Sire Records allowed the band between $25,000 and $30,000 to fully record and produce the album, which is a larger budget compared to the bands previous albums. The band spent most of the money Sire had given them on the production value. The studio rent was $150 per hour, usually using the first take of a song as its final recording, Johnny explained that its best to do it quickly. You do not wanna sit there and bullshit, the recording began on August 21,1977 and took place in Midtown Manhattan at Media Sound Studios, a premises of a former Episcopalian Church. On the first day of sessions, guitarist Johnny Ramone brought a copy of the Sex Pistols single God Save the Queen with him, remarking that their type of music robbed the band. He emphasized that the sound engineer Ed Stasium needed to incorporate better production than that of the Sex Pistols. Johnny relates, These guys ripped us off and I want to better than this. Rocket to Russias final mastering was mainly done in Bongiovis Power Station studio, infamous record producer Phil Spector offered to fabricate Rocket to Russia, but the band declined, feeling as though the album would not be the same without Tommy and Bongiovi
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Road to Ruin (Ramones album)
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Road to Ruin is the fourth studio album by American punk rock band the Ramones, released on September 21,1978, through Sire Records. It was the first Ramones album to new drummer Marky Ramone. Tommy left due to lack of sales and stress while touring, however. The artworks concept was designed by Ramones fan Gus MacDonald and later modified by John Holmstrom to include Marky instead of Tommy, the songs on Road to Ruin were considered by both fans and critics as an attempt to get the band more airplay. The album incorporated elements which were unheard of in punk rock, such as guitar solos. The difference in style caused for mixed reviews by critics, with pointing out that the band was trying to sell more records through a change in form. This attempt by the failed, as Road to Ruin debuted at 103 on the Billboard 200. After the bands previous album Rocket to Russia saw poor album sales, after Tommy suggested they search for a new drummer, they began looking in New York City based clubs. While at CBGB, Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone approached Marc Bell —who had previously been the drummer in Richard Hell, a month after this confrontation, Bell was invited by Danny Fields and Monte Melnick to audition for the band. Around twenty others auditioned to be the drummer, with Tommy overseeing the final choice, Bell played I Dont Care and Sheena Is a Punk Rocker and each member agreed to allow him into the band. Three weeks after Marky joined the band, the Ramones began recording Road to Ruin in Midtown Manhattan at Media Sound Studios, album engineer Ed Stasium explained the recording process, After Tommy left the band, we went straight into working on the Road to Ruin album with Marky. We rehearsed a long time with Marky, just getting it down, then we went into the studio, recorded, and mixed the record at Media Sound. We spent a lot of money, and the entire summer, the artworks concept was originated by Ramones fan Gus MacDonald, who illustrated the members performing with a lobster claw coming out of an amplifier and a snake around their feet. Following the drawings completion, MacDonald sent it to the band and this sketch did, however, include original drummer Tommy, so the drawing had to be modified to depict Marky instead. This alteration was undergone by artist John Holmstrom, a Punk magazine associate, the album introduced many characteristics which were previously unheard of in punk rock, such as guitar solos, acoustic rhythm guitars, and ballads. The album opens with the midtempo piece I Just Want to Have Something to Do, in the song, Joey manages to rhyme Second Avenue with chicken vindaloo. The next track, I Wanted Everything, is compared to Merle Haggards song If We Make It Through December, being called its punk counterpart by Rock, questioningly is a ballad focusing on failing relationships and heartbreak. Dont Come Close uses elements which can also be heard in country music, shes the One suggests that the band will continue making records, while Needles and Pins is a cover of the The Searchers song Needles and Pins
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End of the Century
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End of the Century is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band the Ramones, released on February 4,1980, through Sire Records. The album was the bands first produced by Phil Spector, though he had offered the band his assistance earlier in their career. With Spector fully producing the album, it was the first release that excluded original member Tommy Ramone, Spector used more advanced standards of engineering, such as high-quality overdubbing and echo chambers. These methods caused conflict between the band and Spector since much of the recording used techniques that opposed those the Ramones had previously used, Spector emphasized the production value as well, working with a budget of around $200,000. The songs on End of the Century were written primarily to expand the bands fan-base, straying from the original punk genre. The lyrics on the deal with various different things, ranging from drug addictions to the bands lifestyle while touring. The album also features a cover of The Ronettes piece Baby, I Love You, as well as successors to previous Ramones songs Judy Is a Punk and Havana Affair. It received generally positive reviews critics, though many reviewers deemed it to be less enjoyable compared to the bands previous releases. Despite this, the album is the highest charting Ramones album of all time, reaching number 44 on the US Billboard 200 chart, End of the Century spawned the singles Baby, I Love You and Do You Remember Rock n Roll Radio. The albums title is taken from a couplet repeated in the first track Do You Remember Rock n Roll Radio and its the end, the end of the seventies / Its the end, the end of the century. In February 1977 after attending a Ramones concert in Los Angeles, the band declined his offer, feeling as though the album would not be the same without Tommy Ramone and Tony Bongiovi producing the album. While the band refused his offer, they later asked Spector to help with the album because of their lack of popularity. End of the Century would be the first album released without former drummer and producer Tommy, Spector had become famous through his work with The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers, Ike and Tina Turner, The Beatles and John Lennon, among others. With these releases, Spector defined what would become known as the Wall of Sound, which is a dense, layered and these standards are created through instruments performing identical parts in unison, using high-quality overdubbing and echo chambers to aid in the production value. The producer was convinced that the Ramones had talent with lyrics and musical structure, recording sessions for the album began on May 1,1979 at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Gold Star Studios had become famous through its history with artists like Eddie Cochran, at the Ramones request, Ed Stasium helped with the albums engineering. During the studio work, Spectors recording methods were different from those the Ramones were accustomed to from their four studio albums. The band recorded their compositions in the shortest time possible for the lowest feasible budget
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