what are we discussing here? not crap

Sebastian J. wrote:The Ramones were big big big in Argentina. They played their last concert in front of 60.000 at the River Plate Stadium.

it was supposed to be their last show, at least thats what they stated. but the truth is after that gig in Buenos Aires with Iggy Pop as opening act, the Ramones played a few shows at Lollapalloza 96 and they did some gigs at small venues, i think theri very last show waas at a tiny club somewhere in California with Ed Vedder as guest vocals for the last song (anyway you want it)

GoldenGoneDays wrote:what are we discussing here? not crap

Sebastian J. wrote:The Ramones were big big big in Argentina. They played their last concert in front of 60.000 at the River Plate Stadium.

it was supposed to be their last show, at least thats what they stated. but the truth is after that gig in Buenos Aires with Iggy Pop as opening act, the Ramones played a few shows at Lollapalloza 96 and they did some gigs at small venues, i think theri very last show waas at a tiny club somewhere in California with Ed Vedder as guest vocals for the last song (anyway you want it)

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

GoldenGoneDays wrote:what are we discussing here? not crap

Sebastian J. wrote:The Ramones were big big big in Argentina. They played their last concert in front of 60.000 at the River Plate Stadium.

it was supposed to be their last show, at least thats what they stated. but the truth is after that gig in Buenos Aires with Iggy Pop as opening act, the Ramones played a few shows at Lollapalloza 96 and they did some gigs at small venues, i think theri very last show waas at a tiny club somewhere in California with Ed Vedder as guest vocals for the last song (anyway you want it)

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

are you trying to say Im a "Hollow Man"?

A brief digression from the topic (bold is mine):

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:They are one of the world's few truly ironic bands, as opposed to the evasive sarcasm that passes for irony these days[.]

This is the description that has been eluding me for many years. Brett Eugene Ralph, you have buried the nail into the wall with this succinct expression.

Forum users: whether you are one of the many who misunderstand and misuse the term and concept of irony, or whether you are simply frustrated by its bastardisation and clumsy, ubiquitous mis-application, forum user Brett Eugene Ralph has solved the problem with two words.

"Evasive sarcasm". If only I had read this in 2005, when it was posted. This may seem a very small achievement to many of you - perhaps even to the phrase's author himself - but these two little words soothe a part of my mind as surely as scratching an elusive itch brings peace and satisfaction.

Okay, back to The Ramones.

Lately, I've been stuck on their cover of Tom Waits' "I Don't Wanna Grow Up".

Brilliant - especially the way Joey drawls the last syllable of the line
Makes me wish that I could be a dog

http://mollysanders.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... dding.html


"Don't get me wrong. The Ramones have their place in things, which is usually on a cheap car radio while the sole occupant of the car gets out to buy a package of frosted Donettes and some Camels from 7-11 at six in the morning. It's frosty in suburban New Jersey that day, and he slips a little on some black ice, but doesn't fall. To me, that's The Ramones."


That isn't the Ramones to me, the Ramones rule. But I thought Molly's take on them was funny.

steve wrote:I am 43 years old. I can think of everything I've done and experienced of significance in the last 27 of those 43 years. I can look around myself in a circle, run up and down the stairs and into every room in the building, pointing to anything I find there. I can think of almost everyone I know or have known since I was a teenager -- certainly all my close friends.

I owe all of that to the Ramones.

Much like myself,

but insert "Night Ranger" at the end.

GoldenGoneDays wrote:i think their very last show was at a tiny club somewhere in California with Ed Vedder as guest vocals for the last song (anyway you want it)

Yea, it was in LA. They had guest spots from Dee Dee, Lemmy, Rancid, Ed Vedder and I think a couple of guys from Soundgarden. Tis available on a DVD called We're Outta Here which is worth getting just for Dee Dee's guest spot and the short interview with him after the show.

Can't believe that there are 21 'crap' votes. It's like inhabiting a verdant land of excitement, beauty and emotive experience, a land that was once surrounded by ice. The SS Ramone was an ice-busting ship that made its way to the new land and people followed because it was fun. A huge population has since come to pass over the intervening generations and now some of those latter-day types think the SS Ramone, admittedly simple and without much variety, is crap. Hard to fathom.

My introduction to them was hearing "Pet Sematary" on Headbanger's Ball when I was about 13. I still like that song. (Take that, purists!)

My shitty band was supposed to open for Dee Dee's band about a week before he died. That sucked.

There are some things that are so deeply funny that they aren't:

Case in point:

"I just wanna have some keeks
I just wanna get some cheeks"

How do you do that the first time? Did they all laugh about it? For some reason, I doubt it.

That shit's funny.....every time.