Road To Ruin
by Ramones
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Road To Ruin is ranked 4th best out of 28 albums by Ramones on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ramones is Ramones which is ranked number 228 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,847.
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Road To Ruin track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/20/2026 14:09 |  AAL2014 | 4,045 | 75/100 |
| ! | 04/21/2026 14:43 | classicjoe | 507 | 78/100 |
| ! | 03/18/2026 11:29 | BoxFL | 2,766 | 51/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 18:12 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2026 14:11 |  djrodo | 1,010 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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Brandon8 02/14/2020 23:21 | #247799 | TOP COMMENT
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Ramones fourth album has a different drummer and the sound is more modern with very clean production. It’s hard for me to decide whether their 2nd, 3rd or 4th album is their 2nd best after the debut.
OK album.
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Goliath 11/29/2018 13:45 | #225858
For me Go Mental and I Wanted Everything are the best tracks on this album. Only just behind Rocket to Russia.
Dankel 11/26/2017 18:12 | #202104
First album with Marky replacing Tommy, almost as good as the first three.
Completes the best tetralogy of albums ever.
Decurso 10/11/2014 09:54 | #123992 | TOP COMMENT
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Definitely much more pop oriented than than their first three albums, but it works well.It's probably best known for I Wanna Be Sedated, but everything here is good.
One of my fav Ramones songs 'I wanna be sedated'.
Bork 06/18/2011 03:39 | #23193 | TOP COMMENT
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I believe you miss out on the historical context if you call Ramones a pop band, and even by today's standards the music is too aggressive and the vocals too snotty to be considered pop. That said, this is another solid punk-rocker although not reaching the same heights as the self-titled debut or Rocket to Russia.
People want to talk about the Ramones as a "punk" band which does them no justice. Yes, they pretty much invented punk but that was more of an accident. The Ramones were a pop band more than anything, and since this is their most sing-along album, it is also their best.
Whenever I think about cruising around with my friends in high school, this is the first album/8-track I think of. Good times!
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