Rocket to Russia is the third studio album by the American punk rock band The Ramones.

Pappas continues with Flesh Vehicle, Rock City Birdhouse, and Senator Pappas & The Assassins ; Davis, Pappas, and Sam Powers play in Warthog, a Ramones tribute band ; and Davis is planning a third solo release, as well as a new punk band Epic Ditch.

* An episode from the third season of Entourage is named after the song ; in it, an old-school Hollywood producer pitches a script about the Ramones to E.

Their only record with enough U. S. sales to be certified gold was the compilation album Ramones Mania.

The title track was previously on the Ramones ' final studio album, ¡ Adios Amigos !.

The Ramones ' 1976 Ramones ( album ) | debut album laid down the musical " blueprint for punk ," while its cover image had a similarly formative influence on punk visual style.

Punk rock songs tend to be shorter than those of other popular genres — on the Ramones ' debut album, for instance, half of the fourteen tracks are under two minutes long.

The cover of the Ramones ' 1976 debut album, featuring a shot of the band by Punk photographer Roberta Bayley, set forth the basic elements of a style that was soon widely emulated by rock musicians both punk and nonpunk.

That April, the Ramones ' debut album was released by Sire Records ; the first single was " Blitzkrieg Bop ", opening with the rally cry " Hey!

One thing I remember having had a really depressing effect on me was the first Ramones album.

Leave Home, the Ramones ' second album, had come out in January.

The same year, Waits contributed a version of " The Return of Jackie and Judy " by The Ramones to the compilation album We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones, which was released in 2003 on Columbia Records.

The album is also notable for containing a number of covers of songs by other artists, including The Ramones (" The Return of Jackie and Judy " and " Danny Says "), Daniel Johnston (" King Kong "), Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (" What Keeps Mankind Alive "), and Leadbelly (" Ain't Goin ' Down to the Well " and " Goodnight Irene "), as well as renditions of works by poets and authors admired by Waits, such as Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac and a previously released duet with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse entitled " Dog Door ".

The band admired label head Seymour Stein, who had managed the Ramones, and Stein recruited Tommy Ramone as producer for their first major label album.

Punk rock band the Ramones played this song as the opening for their live album Loco Live as well as in concerts until their disbandment in 1996.

* April 23 – The punk rock group The Ramones release their first self-titled album.

Some bands, such as the Tindersticks, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Crowded House, Van Halen, Duran Duran, Bang Camaro, Santana, Living in a Box, and the Ramones, have released more than one and are thus referred to in other ways, including number and album art ( e. g., The Blue Album ).

September 1999 saw the release of Coverkill, an album consisting entirely of cover versions from bands that were especially influential to Overkill, such as Black Sabbath ( featured no less than three times ), Kiss, Motörhead, Manowar, and The Ramones.

Although it was a commercial flop, the film broke stylistic ground by being more focused and less visually ambitious – and thus easier to emulate on a tight budget – than either RHPS or Ken Russell's 1975 adaptation of The Who's music and storyline from the album Tommy, or even a lower-budget affair like The Ramones ' Rock ' n ' Roll High School ( 1979 ).

Viv Albertine went further in defence of his ability, saying that one night she " went to bed, and Sid stayed up with a Ramones album and a bass guitar, and when I got up in the morning, he could play.

One night, he played the first Ramones album nonstop, all night, then next morning, Sid could play the bass.

The album was well received by critics, and since then he has released several more albums, including a collaboration with the Phantom Surfers, Ramonetures, an album of instrumental versions of Ramones songs, done Ventures-style.

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Friedman is a big fan of The Ramones ( to whom he briefly paid tribute in the Arizona based cover band Rocket to Russia ), Black Sabbath, Kiss and Queen ( during their early years ).

* " Ramona ", a song by The Ramones from Rocket to Russia

He remained as drummer from 1974 to 1978, playing on and co-producing their first three albums, Ramones, Leave Home, and Rocket to Russia, as well as the live album It's Alive ..

While the single mix of " Sheena Is a Punk Rocker " was not included here, it can be found on Rhino's expanded reissue of Rocket to Russia, as well as on multiple Ramones compilations, including the anthologies Ramones Mania and Hey Ho!

* " Rockaway Beach ( song )", a song on the Ramones album Rocket to Russia

* Rocket to Russia, a 1977 album the Ramones

" Rockaway Beach " is a song by the American punk rock band the Ramones from their 1977 album Rocket to Russia.

" Rockaway Beach " has been covered by Swedish rock band Sahara Hotnights, American punk rock band The Queers ( who covered the entire Rocket to Russia album in 1994 on Rocket to Russia ), American punk rock band The Huntingtons ( who covered a number of other Ramones songs on Rocket to Ramonia ), Morrissey collaborator and former Polecat, Boz Boorer, Canadian rock band Deja Voodoo ( also in Finnish ), German punk band Die Toten Hosen on its " Alles wird vorübergehen " single, and Spanish rock band Siniestro Total ( in Spanish, under the title " Rock en Samil ", a popular beach near the group's hometown Vigo in Galicia ).

He is best known for illustrating the covers of the Ramones albums Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin, as well as his characters Bosko and Joe ( published in Scholastic's Bananas magazine from 1975 – 1984 ).

He is also a fan of The Ramones, who wrote the title song for Pet Sematary and appeared in the music video.

Additionally, the MC5's own recording of " High School " appeared in the Ramones film Rock ' n ' Roll High School.

Others bands who played at the Roundhouse during this period included Gass, The Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, The Yardbirds, Zoot Money's Dantalian's Chariot, David Bowie, The Sinceros, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Incredible String Band, The Doors with Jefferson Airplane, Ramones, The Clash, Elkie Brooks, and Motörhead who appeared at the Roundhouse on July 20, 1975.

Local New York bands including Ramones, Bon Jovi, Peter Tork and Madonna also appeared on Floyd's program.

Before the Ramones, Ward played in a heavy metal band called Guitar Pete's Axe Attack, where he appeared on two albums.

It appeared as the opening track on the band's debut album, Ramones, also released that month.

He has also appeared in the films Who's the Man ?, The Paper, Fear of a Black Hat, Airheads, Dead Man on Campus, Belly, The Suburbans, Entropy, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Sugar & Spice, Pauly Shore Is Dead, Tupac: Resurrection, The Sarah Silverman Program, and Ramones Raw.

Dee Dee Ramone was also a friend ; the two composed " Punishment Fits the Crime " which appeared on the 1989 Brain Drain album by the Ramones.

While not one of his primary focuses, he has appeared in the films School for Vandals, End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, and Loren Cass.

Over the years other major music acts appeared at the venue, including Marilyn Monroe, internationally famous jazz performers, including Grover Washington, Jr., Charles Mingus, and Al Di Meola, and rock acts such as U2, Moxy, Elvis Costello, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, Blondie, Meat Loaf, Jimi Hendrix, Queens of the Stone Age, Shakin ' Natives, and LimeBox.