{"id":4786,"date":"2010-12-12T23:10:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T03:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2010-12-12T23:10:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T03:10:49","slug":"ra-moaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ra-moaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ra-moaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hLRsCEAsLZE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>So, I&#8217;ve never been the hugest <strong>Ramones<\/strong> fan.  I found their brand of 3-chord rock to be kind of timid.  Well, I picked up their greatest hits CD at a flea market Saturday, thinking &#8220;OK, now I&#8217;ll have a chance to hear their best, hand-picked by folks who know much better than me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m hear to report that after the first 3 songs that covered most of their biggies, ie, &#8220;Blitzkrieg Bop,&#8221; &#8220;Judy&#8217;s a Punk,&#8221; &#8220;Beat on the Brat,&#8221; the CD&#8211;with another 20 songs and bonus&#8211;simply sounded like it was on skip.  EVERY song was EXACTLY the same&#8211;wow, they go G to A to E.  Then  G to E to A.  Or, wow, the more adventurous E to A to F.  All played with the SAME lackluster drum sound, the same doo-woopy vocal hooks, and the same guitar wash.  It really started to give me a headache.  I was almost embarrassed for them.<\/p>\n<p>I know people say that the Ramones are the god fathers of punk&#8211;and that the Pistols would be nothing without them&#8211;but damnit, the Pistols, the Undertones and every Minor Threat wannabe band has done more with the formula than these so-called pioneers.<\/p>\n<p>So, are they the most overrated band in the history of music?  Can&#8217;t believe they played at the same time as <strong>Television<\/strong>, <strong>Richard Hell<\/strong>, etc&#8230; and never picked up on the spikey, loudness of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone want a free Best of Ramones CD?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve never been the hugest Ramones fan. I found their brand of 3-chord rock to be kind of timid. Well, I picked up their greatest hits CD at a flea market Saturday, thinking &#8220;OK, now I&#8217;ll have a chance to hear their best, hand-picked by folks who know much better than me.&#8221; Well, I&#8217;m <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ra-moaning\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[206,127,396,267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}