Ramones
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Album
Ramones by Ramones
Year: 1976
Release date: 1976-04-23
Overall rank: 226th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 1,322 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1976 (3rd)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 1970s (53rd)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (226th)

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Ramones track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Blitzkrieg Bop
Average Rating: 89 (356 votes)Comments: View 7
2.
Beat On The Brat
Average Rating: 84 (256 votes)Comments: View 3
3.
Judy Is A Punk
Average Rating: 83 (246 votes)Comments: View 1
4.
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Average Rating: 82 (242 votes)Comments: View 1
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Chain Saw
Average Rating: 79 (199 votes)Comments: View 2
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Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
Average Rating: 80 (213 votes)Comments: View 2
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I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement
Average Rating: 80 (205 votes)Comments: View 0
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Loudmouth
Average Rating: 78 (194 votes)Comments: View 2
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Havana Affair
Average Rating: 80 (206 votes)Comments: View 3
10.
Listen To My Heart
Average Rating: 78 (189 votes)Comments: View 0
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53rd & 3rd
Average Rating: 81 (209 votes)Comments: View 3
12.
Let's Dance
Average Rating: 80 (202 votes)Comments: View 0
13.
I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
Average Rating: 79 (200 votes)Comments: View 0
14.
Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
Average Rating: 82 (209 votes)Comments: View 0

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Ramones rankings

Ramones rankings summary
Overall rank: 226th | 1970s rank: 53rd | 1976 rank: 3rd  Overall chart history
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80/100 (from 1,322 votes)
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 !		5 days ago Siromynian  Ratings distribution  1,75875/100
 
45/100
 !		09/14/2026 04:30 Herdandhokies  Ratings distribution  40155/100
 
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 !		09/03/2026 15:16 Timooosterink  Ratings distribution  91572/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.9/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.9.


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Ramones forum mentions

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Ramones comments

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40/100
From 02/19/2016 17:41 | #160248 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Not everything that's influential has to be respected. Did it bring rock music back to its basics? Yes. Do I want to go back to "ga ga goo goo" and diapers? No. (Edited)
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From 12/05/2017 20:59 | #202687 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Every song is the exact same thing. If you've heard one song by the Ramones, you've heard them all. I don't really care to listen to the same track 14 times in a row. Especially if that track is kind of boring. It takes a special type of boring to wear out your welcome in less than the 2 minutes that each track lasts.
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85/100
From 03/03/2022 14:18 | #282198 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Musically, of course, this record isn’t excellent. Pretty simple garage band sound here. What makes this record great is its return to old rock and roll. These songs, essentially, are early 60s bubble gum pop songs but with guitar distortion, bad New York accents, and about 50 extra beats per minute.

Proving, I suppose, that you don’t need complexity to have a meaningful voice. (Edited)
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55/100
From 01/29/2018 10:02 | #206751 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I have to agree that the songs all sound exactly the same. This leads to a listening experience that feels longer than the album's half hour run time. The Ramones have a great sound, and a great song, the trouble is that there is only one song and one sound for the entire album.
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80/100
From 09/20/2017 11:35 | #198326 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Spawned a new genre. Even some of the bands that are called 'the best ever' on BEA can't say that they've created a genre. Do I love this album and think it's perfect? No. Does it deserve much higher rating than 80? Yes
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