The Ramones Road To Ruin Numbered Limited Edition 3CD & LP

The Ramones

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SKU:

WBLP85828

UPC:

603497858286

Description

Out of Print! Only a few copies available!

40th Anniversary Deluxe Numbered, Limited Edition 3CD & LP Set!
Remastered Original Album, 40th Anniversary Mix, Unreleased & Rare Tracks + Previously Unissued '79 Live Show!

ROAD TO RUIN: 40th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION contains two different mixes of the album, unissued rough mixes for every album track, and an unreleased 1979 concert recording of the Ramones in New York.

The Ramones' fourth studio album, originally released September 22, 1978, was their first album with drummer Tommy Ramone's replacement, Marky Ramone.

Road To Ruin features a more 'classic' pop sound than in previous material. Also evident, are influences from girl groups from the '60s as well as The Byrds.

"Road To Ruin is a real good album. It isn't as funny or as powerful as their debut, but this does not mean the band is losing its grip. It means they figured out that the nigh-pure power chords and satire of their first three records - though enormously satisfying to smart people like myself - was too threatening to dumb people like you. So the Ramones compromised. They decided to meet you halfway and cut some slow songs, some guitar solos, some stuff that sounds like it uses twelve-string and pedal steel. Hard-core punk fans are liable to scream "sellout", but they should count themselves lucky that the group didn't pull this on the second LP when the first one didn't do that well. Over half the songs on Road TO Ruin are straight-ahead rockers anyway, so I will tolerate no complaints." - Charles Young, Rolling Stone, 1978

"The Ramones' first four albums stand together as the most toweringly aggressive, misleadingly primitive, perfectly phrased musical statement ever made." - NME

Features:
• 40th Anniversary Deluxe Numbered, Limited Edition
• 3CD & 1 LP housed within a hardbound book
• Superior remastered original album (CD)
• New 40th Anniversary Road Revisited Mix by co-producer Ed Stasium (CD & LP)
• Unreleased mixes
• Rare tracks
• Previously unissued live show recorded in New York in 1979
• Essays by album cover artist John Holmstrom, Ed Stasium & punk scene writer Roy Trakin

Musicians:
Johnny Ramone, guitar
Joey Ramone, lead vocals
Dee Dee Ramone, bass
Marky Ramone, drums

Selections:
CD 1 - Original Album
Remastered Original Mixes:
1. I Just Want To Have Something To Do
2. I Wanted Everything
3. Don't Come Close
4. I Don't Want You
5. Needles And Pins
6. I'm Against It
7. I Wanna Be Sedated
8. Go Mental
9. Questioningly
10. She's The One
11. Bad Brain
12. It's A Long Way Back
40th Anniversary Road Revisited Mix:
13. I Just Want To Have Something To Do
14. I Wanted Everything
15. Don't Come Close
16. I Don't Want You
17. Needles And Pins
18. I'm Against It
19. I Wanna Be Sedated
20. Go Mental
21. Questioningly
22. She's The One
23. Bad Brain
24. It's A Long Way Back

CD 2 - Bonus Material
Rough Mixes & 40th Anniversary Extras:
1. I Walk Out (2018 Mix)*
2. S.L.U.G. (2018 Mix)*
3. Don't Come Close (Single Mix)
4. Needles And Pins (Single Mix)
5. I Just Want To Have Something To Do (Basic Rough Mix)*
6. I Don't Want You (Basic Rough Mix)*
7. I'm Against It (Basic Rough Mix)*
8. It's A Long Way Back (Basic Rough Mix)*
9, I Walk Out (Basic Rough Mix)*
10. Bad Brain (Basic Rough Mix)*
11. Needles And Pins (Basic Rough Mix)*
12. I Wanna Be Sedated Take 2 (Basic Rough Mix)*
13. I Wanted Everything (Basic Rough Mix)*
14. Go Mental (Basic Rough Mix)*
15. She's The One (Basic Rough Mix)*
16. Questioningly Take 2 (Basic Rough Mix)*
17. S.L.U.G. (Basic Rough Mix)*
18. Don't Come Too Close (Basic Rough Mix)*
19. I Wanna Be Sedated (Backing Track)*
20. I Don't Want You (Brit Pop Mix)*
21. Questioningly (Acoustic Version)*
22. Needles And Pins (Acoustic Version)*
23. Don't Come Close (Acoustic Version)*
24. I Wanna Be Sedated ("Ramones-On-45 Mega-Mix!")
*Previously Unissued

CD 3 - Live At The Palladium, New York, NY (12/31/79)
(Previously Unissued)
1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. Teenage Lobotomy
3. Rockaway Beach
4. I Don't Want You
5. Go Mental
6. Gimmie Gimmie Shock Treatment
7. I Wanna Be Sedated
8. I Just Want To Have Something To Do
9. She's The One
10. This Ain't Havana
11. I'm Against It
12. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
13. Havana Affair
14. Commando
15. Needles And Pins
16. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
17. Surfin' Bird
18. Cretin Hop
19. All The Way
20. Judy Is A Punk
21. California Sun
22. I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
23. Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
24. Pinhead
25. Do You Wanna Dance?
26. Suzy Is A Headbanger
27. Let's Dance
28. Chinese Rock
29. Beat On The Brat
30. We're A Happy Family
31. Bad Brain
32. I Wanted Everything

LP - 40th Anniversary Road Revisited Mix
Side 1:
1. I Just Want To Have Something To Do
2. I Wanted Everything
3. Don't Come Close
4. I Don't Want You
5. Needles And Pins
6. I'm Against It
Side 2:
1. I Wanna Be Sedated
2. Go Mental
3. Questioningly
4. She's The One
5. Bad Brain
6. It's A Long Way Back