With the publication of my book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones, I've taken to calling 2023 my year of the Ramones. But c'mon! I wrote the book because every year is a year of the Ramones for me. Hey ho, let's GO!
I belong to a number of Ramones groups on Facebook. Months ago in the Ramones 1974-2024 group, Gary Lynn Clevenger posted a challenge to come up with the ABCs of the Ramones. Digging the idea, I made a couple of quick notes, put it aside...and promptly forgot about it entirely. Pretty quick work. Just like the Ramones!
Well, I see the notes here now, so I'm going to finally finish them and call it a blog post. I have avoided looking at anyone else's responses, so my A-Z Ramones list below is something generated solely by me. For my own POV, I am only using references contained in Ramones songs, and Ramones-written songs only--no covers.
NO* research went into the making of today's post.
[*: very little]
Ready? Take it, Dee Dee! A-B-C-D!!
RAMONES A-Z
Airport [where you need to get me and put me on a plane]
Basement [where I don't wanna go]
Carbona [what I do (unlike glue)]
Die [what I'm too tough to do]
Everything [what I wanted, and what's generally known you've got at home]
Formaldehyde [contents of the bottle she's lyin' in]
Glue [what I wanna sniff now]
Havana [purported location of an affair...but this ain't that location]
I [individual who wants to be sedated, but doesn't wanna walk around with you]
Jackie [punk who returned with Judy]
KKK [group that took my baby away]
Lobotomy [what this teenager is]
My-My [preferred kind of girl]
Neat [rhetorical affirmation to the determination that my future is bleak]
Outsider [what I am]
Punk [what a song title claims Judy is, though Jackie's really the punk while Judy is a runt]
Questioningly [how her eyes looked at me]
Rainbows [what she talks to]
Sheena [a punk rocker who just couldn't stay, she had to break away]
Touring [something that is never boring]
Uncle [familiar nickname for a guy named Floyd whose show is on the TV]
Vegetables [a meal that always makes me think of you]
Winter [what's now here as it's going on two years of swallowing my pride]
X [band listed in the scroll within the video for "I Believe In Miracles;" otherwise, I got nothing]
You [kids in the crowd, whom we know like it when the music's loud]
Zero [first half of doublespeak numeric designation of a UFO]
1-2-3-4!
Carl's new book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones is now available, courtesy of the good folks at Rare Bird Books. Gabba Gabba YAY!! https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/
If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.
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