Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.106) - Ranked #33 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...An intense blast of guitar power, rhythmic simplicity and ferocious brevity..." Spin (5/01, p.108) - Ranked #1 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...The apotheosis of punk....Blitzkrieg pop stripped down to its 1-2-3-4..." Spin - Included in Spin's list of Top Ten College Cult Classics "everything good that's happened to music in the last fourteen years can be directly traced to The Ramones". Q (5/02 SE, p.140) - Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums". Q (8/01, pp.156-7) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Amongst their best work....the tunes have lasted...creating a similar effect to an early Beatles album: pleasure heading directly to the brain..." Uncut - "The Ramones, like Warhol or Lichtenstein, were masters of doing one thing brilliantly and repetitively - something reinforced by the second disc of this set, which contains singles and unreleased demos, including tracks that would appear on subsequent albums..." Uncut (8/01, p.94) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...Easily one of the 10 best first-footings in rock'n'roll history....Even today it still pricks senses....As an exemplary definition of rock'n'roll RAMONES is infallible..." Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #4 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "...The coolest, dumbest, simplest, greatest rock'n'roll record ever to be cut by four sweet, dysfunctional screw-ups..." NME (Magazine) (6/23/01, p.41) - 10 out of 10 - "...The most toweringly aggressive, misleadingly primitive, perfectly phrased musical statement ever made....The demos and alternate versions included demonstrate how finely honed every gangly gesture was from the very beginning..." Disc 1 1. Blitzkrieg Bop 2. Beat on the Brat 3. Judy Is a Punk 4. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend 5. Chain Saw 6. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue 7. I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement 8. Loudmouth 9. Havana Affair 10. Listen to My Heart 11. 53rd & 3rd 12. Let's Dance 13. I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You 14. Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World
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