“Bortom Månen Och Mars” – Perssons PackĠ29. “Booze-Up With Dee Dee Ramone” – RiccobellisĠ26. “Bleed Betty Bleed” – 3D In Your FaceĠ25. “Bis Ans Ende Meiner Tage” – MittendurchĠ23. “Ballad Of Joey Ramone” – Abortion ClinicĠ22.
“Baby I Love You (But I Need Somebody to Talk to About the Ramones)” – The TransgressionsĠ20. “Audacity of Huge” – Simian Mobile DiscoĠ17. “As Long As I Can Listen (to the Ramones)” – The DubrovniksĠ15. “Ask Her For Adderall” – The Hold SteadyĠ13. “Apathisch Warten” – The WohlstandskinderĠ12. “All My Favorite Ramones are Dead” – Jeff DahlĠ09. “All I Want For Christmas” – The MalakasĠ07. (Shoot Farken can’t guarantee that all links work, as there are so many, but will revisit every now and again to fix and include more links.)Ġ06. (To give but one example, “Johnny Ramone” by Der Nino aus Wien has nothing whatsoever in common with “Johnny Ramone” by Some Cat From Japan and “Johnny Ramone” by Santiago Delgado Y Los Runaway Lovers.) (Hence, no instrumentals such as Guitar Wolf’s “Kung Fu Ramone”.)ģ. The songs must really mention or namecheck the Ramones or an individual Ramone.
(Helen Love, a group from Wales, have devoted almost half a dozen songs to the Ramones.)Ģ. But, who knows, maybe there will be another list one day? If it happens, the basic three rules will still apply:ġ. Sadly, it means that my latest find – “Alone (Listening To The Ramones)” by Jonesy – will have to wait, because 445 just doesn’t have the same ring to it as 444. Too nice, I thought, to let this opportunity pass by for the good people at Shoot Farken to publish this list, not least because Sabotage Times is not only gone but also permanently down. Which is why five years later the list stood at 444. Still, every once in a while a new song would trickle in. (Laozi neglected to mention that the 400th step is way more strenuous than the first.) Anybody who knows the band will realise while this was a good number to end the project on, not least because it was getting increasingly difficult to find additional songs. Because over the next three years, between early 2012 and March 2015, the collection steadily grew to 400 songs. It immediately led to further suggestions from friends of mine and just a few months later I had compiled 100 tunes.Īt the time, I was in touch with someone who worked for a maverick culture website from England called Sabotage Times, now defunct, and they were happy to publish my list. That was so impressive, I felt, that I posted a Facebook note about my research. So it wasn’t totally outrageous that I had happened to hear two songs that paid homage to the Ramones while in shuffle mode.īut how many such songs were there? I racked my brains, asked around, googled a bit and quickly came up with 25. After all, how many bands devote songs to other bands in the first place? On the other hand, I knew there were a couple of additional recordings on my mobile device that explicitly mentioned the Bruddas, such as “As Long As I Can Listen” by The Dubrovniks (from Sydney) and Sleater-Kinney’s “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone”, not to mention a famous Motorhead ditty. On the one hand, it all seemed rather unlikely. I wondered how much of a coincidence that was. One of those songs will have been familiar to a lot of people (“Ask Her For Adderall” by The Hold Steady), the other was fiendishly obscure (“Too Much Jazz” by The Beat Angels). One morning I noticed that my journey had begun and ended with a song from my iPod that namechecked the Ramones. This one, for instance, started innocently enough in the summer of 2011, when I was daily commuting across the city of Dortmund, Germany. Even very long journeys, he noted, begin with a single step. Many moons ago, Laozi Ramone posted something that went viral.
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