On the Shelf 071; Joey Ramone
May. 16th, 2012 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23It's hard to believe it's been 11 years since Joey Ramone died. For that reason, Ya Know seems like a much needed disc.
I was about as big of a Ramones fan as it comes, but it's not just that. It just feels like we need Joey Ramone right now. In the current state of music, he is missed.
I don't know why that is either, because I really didn't jump on 2002's Don't Worry About Me. I am not sure why. i had a couple of songs on compilation discs, but i never felt like I needed to spend any time with that album.
Ya Know has got my attnetion though. It's not out until next week, but Rolliing Stone has it streaming.
Of course it's an Odds and Sods affair of thirty years of unreleased tracks, though it doesn't really feel that way. There is a cohesion to it.
It's good to have a new Joey Ramone album in 2012. I don't want to oversell it.. Like that other late70s punk icon Stiv Bators, ultimately this album is really just for the genre's diehards. It's still not better than some of the last Ramones records.
It's a shame that we can't expect a follow-up in three years.
I was about as big of a Ramones fan as it comes, but it's not just that. It just feels like we need Joey Ramone right now. In the current state of music, he is missed.
I don't know why that is either, because I really didn't jump on 2002's Don't Worry About Me. I am not sure why. i had a couple of songs on compilation discs, but i never felt like I needed to spend any time with that album.
Ya Know has got my attnetion though. It's not out until next week, but Rolliing Stone has it streaming.
Of course it's an Odds and Sods affair of thirty years of unreleased tracks, though it doesn't really feel that way. There is a cohesion to it.
It's good to have a new Joey Ramone album in 2012. I don't want to oversell it.. Like that other late70s punk icon Stiv Bators, ultimately this album is really just for the genre's diehards. It's still not better than some of the last Ramones records.
It's a shame that we can't expect a follow-up in three years.
