Ramones Sire

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Ramones. This collection includes their earliest known studio recordings for Sire Records, many of which would be included in their paradigm-shifting 1976 debut, including "53rd and 3rd,' "Loudmouth," and "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You" as well as handfuls of rare tracks. All tracks were, of course, produced by Tommy Ramone.

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Ramones. This collection includes their earliest known studio recordings for Sire Records, many of which would be included in their paradigm-shifting 1976 debut, including "53rd and 3rd,' "Loudmouth," and "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You" as well as handfuls of rare tracks. All tracks were, of course, produced by Tommy Ramone.

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Ramones. This collection includes their earliest known studio recordings for Sire Records, many of which would be included in their paradigm-shifting 1976 debut, including "53rd and 3rd,' "Loudmouth," and "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You" as well as handfuls of rare tracks. All tracks were, of course, produced by Tommy Ramone.

Appearing one year after Rhino's Ramones box set Weird Tales of the Ramones, and appearing four years after Rhino's first single-disc Ramones collection Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits – which itself appeared after Rhino's excellent double-disc Hey! Ho! Let's Go!: The Anthology – Rhino's 2006 collection Greatest Hits serves up 20 of the group's basics. Unlike 2002's Loud, Fast Ramones, Greatest Hits makes no attempt to cover anything other than the group's peak period: the first 16 songs cover 1976's Ramones through 1980s End of the Century, with a selection apiece from Pleasant Dreams ("The KKK Took My Baby Away"), Subterranean Jungle ("Outsider"), Brain Drain ("Pet Sematary") and Too Tough to Die ("Wart Hog").