Road To Ruin (studio album)
by Ramones

Road To Ruin by Ramones
Year: 1978
Overall rank: 1,968th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 265 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1978 (35th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (365th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,968th)

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Ramones bestography

Road To Ruin is ranked 4th best out of 25 albums by Ramones on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ramones is Ramones which is ranked number 232 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,951.

Ramones album bestography « Higher ranked (1,395th)
Leave Home
This album (1,968th)
Road To Ruin
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End Of The Century

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 265 votes)
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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 77.1/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.

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From 02/14/2020 23:21
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.
#247799 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
From 05/16/2019 17:12
OK album.

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From 11/29/2018 13:45
For me Go Mental and I Wanted Everything are the best tracks on this album. Only just behind Rocket to Russia.
#225858 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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From 11/26/2017 18:12
First album with Marky replacing Tommy, almost as good as the first three.
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From 02/03/2016 18:16
Completes the best tetralogy of albums ever.
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From 10/11/2014 09:54
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.
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From 05/19/2012 17:19
One of my fav Ramones songs 'I wanna be sedated'.
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From 06/18/2011 03:39
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.
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From 06/05/2010 06:49
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.
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From 06/05/2010 05:56
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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