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I wanna be top-rated: Ramones’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!
Fifty years on from their first gig at New York’s CBGB, we rate the best work by the punk pioneers – even the hidden 1980s gems. Let’s go!
Ramones were mocked for their apparent stupidity, but managing to rhyme Queens, refried beans, magazines and Thorazines didn’t seem too dim, not least because those four words appeared to encompass the band’s entire horizon. The angriest, most politically committed song Ramones ever wrote was a response to President Ronald Reagan visiting a cemetery in which SS soldiers were interred. End of the Century was largely forgettable, but Spector did absolute justice to this hymn for the golden days of pop radio – Murray the K, Alan Freed and all – which sounds like a fairground at night.
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