I have plenty of favourite Ramones song. Plenty. This happens to be one of the many.
Joey's lyrical imagery here is pretty much unmatched in any other Ramones songs: so evocative, so aching with the pain of being away for months on end from the one you love (and shortly to lose the one you love). Several years back, I was lucky enough to have the specific inspiration behind each line explained to me by Arturo Vega in a New York loft - but really, the song is just as magical either way. Joey's voice is sublime. The Phil Spector production is sublime. The song and melody and imagery are sublime.
Bangs alive!
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ReplyDeletePerry Nutt, Andrew Moore, Shawn Wolfe and 3 others like this.
Suzy Ramone
and it, it may sound funny but it's TRUE oo oo oo
22 March at 11:49 ·
Shawn Wolfe
Tommy and Marky and Ritchie and "CJ" should reunite. They were "the main guys" anyway, right?
23 March at 05:48 ·
Everett True
Um, if you know your Ramones Shawn, you'd know how mistaken you are to talk down Tommy's role...
23 March at 06:14 ·
Shawn Wolfe
True, True. Let's hope such a reformation or vegas revue never takes place outside the confines of The Charlie Rose Show. Unless you think mr. Erdelyi can pull it off.
23 March at 06:52 ·