Leave Home

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Rhino will issue a super deluxe edition of the Ramones 1977 album Leave Home next month, which, as with last year’s reissue of the band’s self-titled debut, will offer rare and unreleased content across three CDs and a vinyl LP. Home_ doesn't stray very far from the three simple rules that defined the Ramones' debut: keep it LOUD, FAST and SHORT. I suppose you should also add catchy, memorable, witty, ironic, subtly intelligent, etc., but in the spirit of the Ramones I'm going to keep this review simple. Rathbone, Oregano (September 2017). "Ramones – Leave Home (40th Anniversary Edition)". Record Collector. No.470 . Retrieved 2018-11-21.

Ramones | Charts & Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2011-12-31 . Retrieved 2014-01-26. Lander, Dan (2010). Music IS Rapid Transportation... from the Beatles to Xenakis. Charivari Press. ISBN 978-1-895166-04-0. With most of the material written at the same time as their debut and having been performed live for over twelve months (how else would they have made up a full hour-long set list?), Leave Home is more of the same. But it's far from a carbon copy of its predecessor. For starters the studio budget had gone up allowing the band to get a smoother sound and a better producer. Tommy Bongiovi (second cousin to Jon Bon Jovi, fact fans) had won his engineer's spurs with no one less than Jimi Hendrix, and his production, while only taking off a few of the edges, allowed the band to refine their sound. For Leave Home the idea was simple: tidy up a few rough edges and let the hooks do the talking. The band – Joey, guitarist Johnny, bassist Dee Dee and drummer Tommy, who co-produced with Tony Bongiovi – were keen to show that their songwriting chops had progressed, even in such a short space of time. The most notable shift comes with their prioritising of refrains that could easily be caught and repeated if, say, they were heard blasting from the radio through car speakers.Sire Records Inc., Marketed by ABC Records, Inc., L.A., Calif. 90048. N.Y., N.Y. 10019. Printed in U.S.A. All rights on behalf of Taco Tunes, Inc. & Bleu Disque Music Co., Inc. administered by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) One of the pop highs of the 70s and The Ramones at their fizzy best. It's just like the first album, but with punchier sound. It beats a hole straight through your skull. At any given minute, there's someone on planet Earth totally lost in this album, bopping their head around, moving in their chair or throwing themselves around their room, not even thinking about the outside world. Sometimes that person is me. a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Leave Home – Ramones". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2017-07-14 . Retrieved 2014-01-26. a b c d Begrand, Adrien (2003-06-26). "The Ramones: Leave Home". PopMatters . Retrieved 2014-01-26.

Critical reception for the album was generally favorable, with several reviewers pointing out the fact that it highly resembled the band's debut album. Critics also said the album was less groundbreaking than their debut but had humorous and enjoyable pieces. The album peaked at 148 on the Billboard 200 despite its critical acclaim as well as the band members expecting more commercial success. The original album is included twice on the first disc of this set, first in its original remastered version and secondly in a new mix by original engineer Ed Stasium. He writes in the liner notes, "After Leave Home was released, we all felt, in various hindsight discussions with the band, that the mixes for the album had been rushed, and didn't represent the raw power of the Ramones." As the arrangements and instrumentation of the album aren't by nature intricate, there weren't many previously unheard nuances for Stasium to bring forward. Neither is the 2017 mix as eye-opening as the mono presentation of Ramones on last year's box set edition. But it's a welcome alternative here, as it offers a more centered sound than the original and its hard left-right stereo panning. Stasium's remix also tones down the reverb liberally applied forty years earlier. It maintains the album's powerful, up-close-and-personal feeling, and sounds particularly "right" on its clean and quiet vinyl presentation. (Turn it up and play it LOUD!) But alongside the heady rush of the full-on approach was 'da brudders' love of 60s surf-pop and Phil Spector romanticism. Their cover of The Riviera's California Sun makes perfect sense, and Joey's rendition of I Remember You is as sweet a love song as you could get. Sire Records, Inc./ Marketed by ABC Records, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif. 90048. New York, N.Y. 10019. Printed in U.S.A. The vinyl LP included in this new edition features the 40th anniversary remix. In the sleeve notes that accompany this set, Ed Stasium explains why this has been created: “Generally, the consensus was [the original] maybe sounded too clean, the guitars panned completely left-right detracted from the band’s foreboding presence, and the reverb effects especially were a little excessive.”True, Everett (2005). Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-84449-413-2. Waksman, Steve (2009). This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-94388-9. The band would infamously give themselves over to pop on 198o’s End of the Century, enlisting primo arsehole Phil Spector – still at that point just the Wall Of Sound pioneer and not yet a convicted murderer – to buff their music to a shine. Next to that record Leave Home is a far more authentic reach for mainstream acceptance built on the belief that, on their own scuzzy merits, Ramones songs were as melodically potent as anything swimming around in the upper reaches of the charts.