Ramones leave home songs6/20/2023 ![]() When you have Mighty Manfred (The Woggles), Nathan Long (MI6), Kent Holmes (The Brutalists), SL “Duck” Duff (The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs), Erik Szabo (Park Bench Prophets), Todd Westover (The Bellrays), Joe Jennings (JJ & the Real Jerks, Legendary Swagger) and Geoff Yeaton (The Legendary Swagger, The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs) on stage, you can’t really go wrong, but this turns out even better than expected. On their album Monolithic, supergroup The Magnificent celebrate a rhythm ‘n’ blues party. Raise Your Hand || Cover: The Magnificent || Original: Eddie Floyd ![]() On the flipside, the BPM goes up for a catchy, danceable version of Ramones’ Leave Home song (1977). New York singer-songwriter Jesse Malin followed up last year’s album Sad And Beatiful World with the sensitive single Keep On Burning. Oh Oh I Love Her So || Cover: Jesse Malin || Original: Ramones Elsewhere enough has been written about She & Him’s Melt Away tribute to Brian Wilson, the new Minions soundtrack, Easy Eye Sound’s John Anderson compilation and the countless Running Up That Hill covers – we heard some other highlights. Chosen from a wide range, here are – in random order – ten of our favorite covers from last month – links to the pages where you can add them to your wantlist included.Ī little later than usual, due to vacation, but there was too much fun music to skip this post. Regardless of intent, some of those cover versions are so good or so much fun, we’d like to put a spotlight on them. Other times, bands cover songs as a parody. Sometimes these are songs by their favorite artists, eg as a tribute to such a musical hero for a special reason, or they simply feel that a song deserves to be dusted and polished to reacquaint fans with great songs from the past. And if the first album was full of immediate classics, Leave Home has more than its share of great tunes, including the anthemic "Pinhead" and "Commando," the high-velocity teen romance of "Oh Oh I Love Her So" (certainly the greatest love story ever set at a Burger King), and the catchy invitations to bad behavior in "Carbona Not Glue" and "Glad to See You Go." Leave Home wasn't as startling as the Ramones' first album, and it's not quite as strong and consistent as their masterpiece Rocket to Russia, but it was a positive step forward for the Pride of Forest Hills, and it's one of their best and most satisfying albums.Not all new music is really new, as many artists cover songs. Without the strict left/right separation of Ramones, Leave Home is more friendly to the ear, and the increased clarity does wonders for the passionate bleat of Joey's vocals, Johnny's unrelenting Mosrite abuse, and the melodic details that lurk beneath the surface of the Ramones' wall of noise. Just as importantly, the production is noticeably more polished this time out, which helps more than one might expect. The Ramones sound more comfortable with their attack, never quite as simple as it seems, while also bearing down with a greater speed and ferocity that finds them hitting their stride in the studio. The performances on Leave Home are tighter and better focused than they were on Ramones, and Tommy Ramone's minimalist drumming gained a bit of swing that was absent on the debut. But even a cursory listen reveals the Ramones had made plenty of progress in less than a year. Released a mere nine months after the Ramones' groundbreaking debut, 1977's Leave Home was in many respects a continuation of the sound and attitude of the first album, with its unrelenting barrage of chunky guitar downstrokes and Mad Magazine-influenced lyrical absurdity.
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