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| Ramones – Wart Hog Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Wart Hog" by Dee Dee (with co-writing credit to Johnny) was written in response to Dee Dee's therapist pressuring him to write a love song to get him in touch with his feelings. Dee Dee said in his autobiography Lobotomy: "'You want a song. I'll give you a song,' I thought to myself. The next day I gave him the lyrics to 'Wart Hog.'" |
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| Ramones – Endless Vacation Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Endless Vacation" by Dee Dee and Johnny is a hardcore experiment, with Dee Dee imitating Darby Crash of the Germs! |
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| Ramones – Teenage Lobotomy Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Teenage Lobotomy," written by the entire band, is yet another loud tribute to mental illness. Since the joke on the Leave Home LP was that the Ramones were doing Carbona, the joke on Rocket to Russia was that the band was now into DDT, the insecticide (also in "I Wanna Be Well"). |
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| Ramones – Ramona Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Ramona," written by the entire band, is a love song that was originally titled "Rocket to Russia." The band rewrote the lyrics to the song and used the title for the album title. |
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| Ramones – I Don't Care Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"I Don't Care," written by Joey, is one of the band's simplest and most negative songs. Joey told Jim Bessman in the Ramones book: "'I Don't Care'- people thought that was nihilistic but it really sort of evolved out of being in a heavy depression, some sort of insanity- mental illness." |
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| Ramones – Rockaway Beach Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Rockaway Beach," written by Dee Dee, is a Beach Boys-style song about the local beach in Queens, NY. |
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| Ramones – Cretin Hop Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Cretin Hop," written by the entire band, is the Ramones' tribute to their pogoing audience. It's a faster rewrite of "Pinhead," with the "1-2-3-4" verse echoic of "D-U-M-B" in the earlier song. |
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| Ramones – You're Gonna Kill That Girl Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"You're Gonna Kill That Girl" was written by Joey as a horror movie joke on the Beatles' "You're Gonna Lose That Girl." It was probably also inspired by Dee Dee's fights with Connie, his junkie stripper girlfriend. |
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| Ramones – Commando Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Commando" was written by Dee Dee about commandos in Vietnam and Germany, probably from his love of war movies. Vietnam was still in the news back then. |
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| Ramones – California Sun Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"California Sun" was a cover version of a song by the Rivieras (1964), later recorded by the Dictators on "Dictators Go Girl Crazy!" (1975). The missing second verse goes: "Well, I'm goin' out west, down on the coast/Where the California girls are really the most." |
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| Ramones – Swallow My Pride Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Swallow My Pride" was written by Joey about the band's displeasure over the commercial failure of their first album. "It's going on two years" and they hadn't made any money from their recording contract. |
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| Ramones – Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Now I Wanna Be a Good Boy" was written by Dee Dee as a filler track based on "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue." Musically, the song is based on "Master Race Rock" by the Dictators. |
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| Ramones – Pinhead Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Pinhead" was written by the entire band about the "pinheads" in the 1932 horror film "Freaks." The band saw the film ten times in June 1976 while stuck in Cleveland, Ohio after a rained-out show was cancelled. The "freaks" in the film chant "Gooble gobble, we accept her, one of us, one of us." The Ramones mutated this into "Gabba Gabba Hey." The "D-U-M-B" line was a joke on what critics were calling the band. |
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| Ramones – Suzy Is A Headbanger Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Suzy is a Headbanger" was written by the entire band (before "Sheena," according to Tommy) about a punk-loving girl and her disapproving "geek" mother. |
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| Ramones – Sheena Is a Punk Rocker Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Sheena is a Punk Rocker" was written by Joey as a Beach Boys-style song, continuing the theme of "Judy is a Punk." Sheena breaks away from her disco-loving friends to listen to punk bands in New York. |
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| Ramones – Babysitter Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Babysitter" was written by Joey about his experiences dating his babysitting girlfriend. |
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| Ramones – Carbona, Not Glue Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Carbona Not Glue" was written by the entire band as a joke on the controversy in England over the song "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue." Originally on the Leave Home LP, the song was replaced by "Babysitter" in the UK (and "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" in the USA) when Sire Records' UK distributor Phonogram refused to sell the album in England because of the drug reference. |
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| Ramones – Oh Oh I Love Her So Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Oh Oh I Love Her So" was written by Joey as a basic love song, probably inspired by "Palisades Park" by Freddy Cannon. The line "I'm gonna give her a great big kiss" is a reference to the 1964 song "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" by the Shangri-Las, later covered by the New York Dolls. |
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| Ramones – Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" was written by Dee Dee and Johnny with help from Joey. Joey used to date a girl in a mental institution who didn't know who he was after her shock treatments. The song was probably inspired musically by the 1969 bubblegum song "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" by Crazy Elephant. |
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| Ramones – Glad To See You Go Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Glad To See You Go" was written by Dee Dee (lyrics) and Joey (music) about Dee Dee's ex-girlfriend Connie Gripp. Connie was a heroin-addicted stripper who constantly fought with Dee Dee, and once stabbed him in the ass with a broken bottle. According to Arturo Vega, after their last fight, Connie stormed out cursing at Dee Dee, and Dee Dee yelled out the window: "I'm glad to see you go!" |
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| Ramones – Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World" was written by Dee Dee about his love of war movies and war comics. Dee Dee had grown up in Germany before moving to Queens, but told "New York" magazine: "We wrote the (song) because we watch a lot of war movies." The song's original first line, "Well i'm a Nazi baby/I'm a Nazi, yes I am" was changed in the studio at the request of Sire Records president Seymour Stein (although Joey always sang the original line live). |
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| Ramones – I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You" was written by Dee Dee as an offshoot of the first punk song he ever wrote, called "I Don't Wanna Get Involved With You." The Ramones played both songs in their earliest shows in 1974, although "Involved" was never recorded. The "I don't wanna" theme is a negative joke on "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by the Stooges, one of Dee Dee's favorite bands. |
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| Ramones – Let's Dance Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Let's Dance" is a cover version of the song originally recorded by Chris Montez in 1962 about dance crazes. |
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