Ah, Punk. By and large, I like the spirit of the genre better than I actually like listening to it. There are of course exceptions, and the Ramones are one such exception.
So, without further ado, here’s my favorite group of snot-nosed, glue-sniffing, Chinese rock-shooting, and absurdist humorists, from the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, New York City.
'The Sire Years (1976-1981)' is a 6CD boxed set, and was released on the Sire/Rhino label in 2013. This set has one glaring mistake, track 5 on the 'Leave Home' album, is listed as "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" instead of "Carbona not Glue": the Ramones ode to the practice of inhaling the fumes from household or industrial products to get high. You know, "huffing".
For the freeload, who's your favorite "Peanuts" character?
Woodstock! 🐣
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ANON RF: Don't know why, but Schroder...
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ReplyDeleteRemember "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" by The Royal Guardsmen?
DeleteAnd it was No1 in Australia for a month!
DeleteI have a soft spot for Linus and Snoopy as the WWI fighter pilot
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of soft spots, I fell hard for The Ramones early on (1976) and standing at the side of the stage for soundcheck at Armadillo World Headquarters in 1979 (The Skunks opened), I'd never seen anything like Johnny's array of amps and they made.the.fuckin',stage.shake. The li'l band I was (briefly) in sometimes claimed to Austin' loudest, but, uhm, y e a h. No.
Snoopy. Always have been a dog lover, and even had a Snoopy for President banner, alongside my Pat Paulsen for Pres banner.
ReplyDeletedeLesepps Morrison for VP on one of those tickets, eh?
DeleteI remember the week after the '68 election on The Smother Bros. show, Pat Paulsen gave his concession speech, followed by his victory speech, if he had won.
DeleteI had a button that read: "Don't blame me, I voted for George McGovern"
As a young teen I worked my ass off for McGovern during my dad's sabbatical in Berkeley and then all that summer and fall back in BRLA, which was, uhm, a bit of an uphill climb, lol. Later, in 1980, my first job out of college was on his staff--total luck. I went by with a resume and they needed a low-level assistant who could start ASAP. 6 months later he lost his senate seat and very kindly suggested my future might be better spent in academia (he had a PhD in History) than politics; he sure got that right. Perhaps the best thing about having briefly worked for him is being able to tell folx who supported him that the Senator was a genuinely fine human being.
DeleteThe little red-haired girl.
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ReplyDeleteAnother vote for Linus but I have a soft spot for Pigpen.
ReplyDeleteAnd another vote for the thoughtful, intellectual, and philosophical Linus Van Pelt.
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ReplyDeleteI like all of them, except the girls (how telling is that!), because my parents indulged in buying a lot of Peanuts and Pogo collections to stock the back seat of their car for long drives. (It was a Peugeot 403, by the way, with seatbelts all around - installed in 1966.) But it was my pleasure to portray Linus Van Pelt in a student production of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" my senior year of college. Many laughed when, show after show during the number "A Book Report on Peter Rabbit," I delivered the line, "now, as we consider rabbits qua rabbits... "
ReplyDeleteSo he'll always be a favorite for me!
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Rabbits qua rabbits - that's great! I love Pogo (and The Ramones).
DeleteDo y'all remember Snoopy's brother Spike? Skinny dog who had a moustache and a crumpled hat. I read recently that Spike was Charles Schulz's tribute to Captain Beefheart! Could it really be true?
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Babs, the "glaring mistake" that you mention might be because "Carbona Not Glue" was removed from the Ramones' album "Leave Home" to avoid a lawsuit from the manufacturer of Carbona.
Delete"Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" replaced "Carbona Not Glue" on the album in the US ("Babysitter" replaced "Carbona" in the UK).
Gotta be Snoopy for me. Don't let anyone tell you there is anything wrong with a 'dog's life'....(well in our house anyway!)
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ReplyDeleteWoodstock , of course!
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thank you!
DeleteThank YOU, for all your input. Eric!
DeleteHi, Babs, many thanks for the Ramones!
ReplyDeleteKind regards, Mike
Enjoy, Mike!
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ReplyDeleteShe ate up the four panels every time.
Linus and Snoopy, though I appreciate Lucy a lot more now than when I was growing up
ReplyDeletePeppermint Patty please. Honorable mentions for Charlie, Linus, Schroeder, Pigpen & Sally. Snoopy too. Thanks Babs
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ReplyDeleteSnoopy & Woodstock, I use them from time to time for my Art For Art's Sake comics. Thanks for the Ramones, Babs!
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