Rocket To Russia (40th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition) Ramones

• Remastered Original Mixes:
• 1 Cretin Hop (Remastered) 01:55
• 2 Rockaway Beach (Remastered) 02:06
• 3 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Remastered) 02:49
• 4 Locket Love (Remastered) 02:11
• 5 I Don't Care (Remastered) 01:39
• 6 Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (Remastered) 02:49
• 7 We're A Happy Family (Remastered) 02:40
• 8 Teenage Lobotomy (Remastered) 02:01
• 9 Do You Wanna Dance? (Remastered) 01:55
• 10 I Wanna Be Well (Remastered) 02:28
• 11 I Can't Give You Anything (Remastered - 44.1 kHz) 02:01
• 12 Ramona (Remastered) 02:37
• 13 Surfin' Bird (Remastered) 02:37
• 14 Why Is It Always This Way? (Remastered) 02:19
• 40th Anniversary Tracking Mix:
• 15 Cretin Hop (Tracking Mix) 01:57
• 16 Rockaway Beach (Tracking Mix) 02:07
• 17 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Tracking Mix) 02:46
• 18 Locket Love (Tracking Mix) 02:16
• 19 I Don't Care (Version 2) (Tracking Mix) 01:51
• 20 It's A Long Way Back To Germany (Version 1) (Tracking Mix) 02:23
• 21 We're A Happy Family (Tracking Mix) 02:38
• 22 Teenage Lobotomy (Tracking Mix) 02:04
• 23 Do You Wanna Dance? (Tracking Mix) 01:54
• 24 I Wanna Be Well (Tracking Mix) 02:30
• 25 I Can't Give You Anything (Tracking Mix) 02:13
• 26 Ramona (Tracking Mix) 03:06
• 27 Surfin' Bird (Tracking Mix) 02:53
• 28 Why Is It Always This Way? (Tracking MIx) 02:44
• Mediasound/Power Station Rough Mixes:
• 29 Why Is It Always This Way? (Mediasound Rough, Alternate Lyrics) 01:58
• 30 Rockaway Beach (Power Station Rough) 02:06
• 31 I Wanna Be Well (Power Station Rough) 02:28
• 32 Locket Love (Power Station Rough) 02:15
• 33 I Can't Give You Anything (Power Station Rough) 02:02
• 34 Cretin Hop (Power Station Rough) 01:55
• 35 We're A Happy Family (Power Station Rough) 02:14
• 36 Ramona (Mediasound Rough, Alternate Lyrics) 03:06
• 37 Do You Wanna Dance? (Mediasound Rough) 01:52
• 38 Teenage Lobotomy (Mediasound Rough) 02:02
• 39 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Mediasound Rough) 02:47
• 40 I Don't Care (Version 2) 01:46
• 40th Anniversary Extras:
• 41 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Acoustic Version) 02:48
• 42 It's A Long Way Back To Germany (Version 1) 02:24
• 43 Ramona (Sweet Little Ramona Pop Mix) 03:07
• 44 Surfin' Bird (Alternate Vocal) 02:40
• 45 Teenage Lobotomy (Backing Track) 02:06
• 46 We're A Happy Family (At Home With The Family) 01:02
• 47 Cretin Hop (Backing Track) 01:58
• 48 Needles And Pins (Demo Version) 02:44
• 49 Babysitter (B-Side Version) 02:45
• 50 It's A Long Way Back To Germany (B-Side Version) 02:21
• 51 Joey RTR Radio Spot Promo 00:52
• 52 We're A Happy Family (Joey & Dee Dee Dialogue) 01:12
• Live at Apollo Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, 12/19/1977:
• 53 Rockaway Beach 03:00
• 54 Teenage Lobotomy 02:08
• 55 Blitzkrieg Bop 02:03
• 56 I Wanna Be Well 02:21
• 57 Glad To See You Go 01:51
• 58 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment 01:37
• 59 You're Gonna Kill That Girl 02:27
• 60 I Don't Care 01:40
• 61 Sheena Is A Punk Rocker 02:26
• 62 Carbona Not Glue 01:34
• 63 Commando 01:58
• 64 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow 03:14
• 65 Surfin' Bird 02:23
• LP: 40th Anniversary Tracking Mix:
• 66 Cretin Hop 01:45
• 67 Listen To My Heart 01:38
• 68 California Sun 01:48
• 69 I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You 01:24
• 70 Pinhead 03:47
• 71 Do You Wanna Dance? 01:41
• 72 Chain Saw 01:31
• 73 Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World 03:25
• 74 Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy 02:03
• 75 Judy Is A Punk 02:21
• 76 Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue 01:22
• 77 We're A Happy Family 02:26
• Total Runtime 02:51:52

Info for Rocket To Russia (40th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition)

The newly remastered version of the original album „Rocket To Russia“. The Ramones released its second album of the calendar year (and third overall) on November 4, 1977, capping off one of the biggest years in the history of punk with Rocket To Russia. Among the band's best-loved albums, it features classics like "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" and "Rockaway Beach" along with their signature covers of "Do You Wanna Dance?" and "Surfin' Bird." It's also the last album ever recorded by all four founding members, as drummer Tommy Ramone left soon after to focus on writing and producing.

The Deluxe Edition features a remastered version of the original stereo mix for Rocket To Russia, plus the 2017 40th Anniversary Tracking Mix created by Stasium, which provides a back-to-basics version of the album, and a different track listing from the 1977 original. The 2017 40th Anniversary Tracking Mix is also featured on the LP that accompanies the Deluxe Edition.

Stasium provides some details on the new Tracking Mix in the set's liner notes: "When putting together this new Tracking Mix, I decided to include the versions of 'I Don't Care' and 'It's A Long Way Back to Germany,' since they were recorded during the Rocket To Russia sessions at Mediasound, and are completely different takes that have never been heard before. 'Sheena' has been omitted, as it was recorded in a totally different session a few months prior, in-between the Leave Home and Rocket To Russia albums."

Two dozen rare and unreleased recordings are found on the second disc, including rough mixes from sessions at Mediasound and The Power Station. There's also an early version of "Needles And Pins" with Tommy on drums, the B-side single mix of "Babysitter," an alternate version of "It's A Long Way Back To Germany" with Dee Dee on vocals, an original radio promo with Joey Ramone, and more.

A highlight of this Deluxe Edition is the complete unreleased concert included on the third disc. This never-before-heard multi-track recording of the band's December 19, 1977 show at the Apollo Centre in Glasgow, Scotland captures the Ramones just a few days before the group recorded the classic live album It's Alive, and mixed for this 40th Anniversary edition by Ed Stasium. In Glasgow, they played songs from all three studio albums including "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Judy Is A Punk," "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment," and "California Sun."

Joey Ramone, lead vocals
Johnny Ramone, guitar
Dee Dee Ramone, bass, backing vocals
Tommy Ramone, drums

Recorded August – September 1977 at Media Sound Studios, Midtown Manhattan
Produced by Tony Bongiovi, Tommy Ramone
Remastered, engineered and re-mixed by Ed Stasium

Digitally remastered

The Ramones
were loud and fast - Everyone knows that, even the poor, blind saps who never loved the band. But the Ramones were many things, and gloriously so, from the moment of their inception in Forest Hills, New York, in 1974, until their final concert, 2,263, in Los Angeles on August 6, 1996.

They were prolific - releasing 21 studio and live albums between 1976 and 1996 - and professional, typically cutting all of the basic tracks for one of those studio LPs in a matter of days. They were stubborn, a marvel of bulldog determination and cast-iron pride in a business greased by negotiation and compromise. And they were fun, rock n' roll's most reliable Great Night Out for nearly a quarter of a century. Which seems like a weird thing to say about about a bunch of guys for whom a show, in 1974 or '75, could be six songs in a quarter of an hour.

The Ramones were also first: the first band of the mid-'70's New York punk rock uprising to get a major-label contract and put an album out; the first to rock the nation on the road and teach the British how noise annoys; the first new American group of the decade to kick the smug, yellow-bellied shit out of a '60s superstar aristrocracy running on cocaine-and-caviar autopilot.

Above all, the Ramones were pop: stone believers in the Top 40 7-inch-vinyl songwriting aesthetic; a nonstop hit-singles machine with everything going for it - hammer-and-sizzle guitars and hallelujah choruses played at runaway-Beatles-velocity - except actual hits. According to an August 1975 article in England's Melody Maker about the crude, new music crashing through the doors of a former country-and-bluegrass bar in lower Manhattan named CBGB, the local press was already hailing the Ramones as - get this - "potentially the greatest singles band since the Velvet Underground." A peculiar compliment since the Velvets' own few 45s were all crushing radio bombs.

But there was one thing you could never, ever say about the Ramones: that they were dumb. In their time, in their brilliantly specialized way, the Ramones - the founding four of Johnny (guitar), Joey (voice), Tommy (drums), and Dee Dee (bass); along with Marky, who spent 15 years and 11 albums behind the drums beginning with "Road To Ruin" and who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the original four; - later followed by CJ, who stepped out of the Marine Corps and into Dee Dee's king-sized sneakers in 1989; and Richie, who kept the beat while Marky was on hiatus between '83 and '87 - were the sharpest band on the planet. Fully evolved as musicians and songwriters. Confident in their power and the importance of what they had.

The atomic-mono impact of Johnny's Mosrite guitar; Joey's commanding, sour-Queens vocal delivery; the unity of wardrobe and identity; right down to the original, collective songwriting credits and the mutually assumed surname - they were the result of a very simple philosophy. As Tommy puts it: "Eliminate the unneccesary and focus on the substance." That is precicesly what the group did on every record it ever made, on every stage it ever played.

The Ramones' place in rock 'n' roll history was already assured by 1978 with their first three albums: Ramones, Leave Home, and Rocket To Russia, all made in the span of 18 months, between February 1976 and the fall of '77. When it was time to make records, Tommy says, "our art was complete." The art was the combined product four strangely aligned personalities - all living within shouting distance of each other in the conservative, middleclass enclave of Forest Hills, where their mutual needs as fledgling musicians and bored delinquents far the mess of differences and civil wars that could never quite bust them apart. Once a Ramone, always a Ramone.

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