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The Ramones - Leave Home (1977)

Track listing:
  1. Glad To See You Go 2:13
  2. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment 1:44
  3. I Remember You 2:21
  4. Oh Oh I Love Her So 2:09
  5. Carbona Not Glue 1:55
  6. Suzy Is A Headbanger 2:14
  7. Pinhead 2:45
  8. Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy 2:16
  9. Swallow My Pride 2:10
  10. What’s Your Game 2:41
  11. California Sun 2:07
  12. Commando 1:53
  13. You’re Gonna Kill That Girl 2:44
  14. You Should Never Have Opened That Door 1:59
  15. Babysitter 2:49
  16. Loudmouth (live) 2:08

Notes

Of course the Ramones' second album Leave Home is simply more of the same — 14 songs, including one oldie ("California Sun"), delivered at breakneck speed and concluding in under a half hour. The Ramones have gotten slightly poppier, occasionally delivering songs like "I Remember You" that are cloaked neither in irony nor seedy rock & roll chic. Still, the biggest impressions are made by the cuts that strongly recall the debut, whether it's the ersatz Beach Boys of "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker," the sing-along of "Pinhead" or the warped anthems "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" and "Commando." Song for song, it's slightly weaker than its predecessor, but the handful of mediocre cuts speed by so fast that you don't really notice its weaknesses until after it's all over.