The Ramones - Self Titled (w/ guest Jack Fitzsimmons)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2016

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome musician (hellstroms.bandcamp.com), podcaster, and our new resident punk avatar Jack Fitzsimmons onto the podcast to talk about the Ramones' self titled debut (1976, Sire). The four kids who went on to change their names and the landscape of music grew up in the hostile environment of Queens, NY where they decided to embrace themselves as outsiders, turned up the volume, and pretended to be rock stars. Jack shares how he first delved into the band and this album while visiting family in Great Britain and meeting the punks from across the pond who idolized the Ramones. Jack helps us understand, from his perspective, what it means to be a punk and part of that culture. Bill, Brian, and Jack discuss the band's intelligence and their dumb image, the strange mixing choices on the album, the emergence of teenager culture, making mix tapes for former high school girlfriends, Dee Dee's troubles and sexuality, the birth of the punk cover, and much more as we talk about the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Hey, oh, let's go.
0:25.4	I. Oh, let's go.
0:29.1	Oh, let's go.
0:30.9	Oh, let's go.
0:33.7	Hello, and welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:36.6	I'm Bill.
0:37.1	And I'm Brian. What we just listened to right there, Brian.
0:39.5	That was Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones from their 1976, their April 23rd, 1976, debut album, The Ramones.
0:50.9	We're doing a lot of self-titled stuff recently. Are we? Yeah, we did the laws.
0:55.5	We did, I don't know, a couple of others this year that have been self-titled.
1:00.2	A bunch of Weezer ones.
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:02.8	Yeah, Weezer.
1:04.6	So if you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it
1:11.8	great. We kind of take a bit of a fan's perspective, a listener appreciation, and we are going to talk
1:18.5	about kind of what we enjoy about the band and how we got into them. And we're also going to talk
1:24.9	a little bit about the band's background and the production of the album
1:28.4	before getting into a track-by-track review. So we have a guest joining us today. Yeah, but he's not
1:34.7	with us. Yeah, he is joining us via the magic of Skype. Yeah, we're beaming him in. But we're
1:40.7	going to get to that in just a minute our conversation with him that is that is
1:44.6	jack fitzsimmons who is from a whole bunch of different crap he's in bands he's part of a
1:50.8	podcast called weekend quality and he's going to tell you all about it shortly but before we
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