The Ramones, It's Alive - 54m 35s

Tracks & Durations

1. Rockaway Beach (live)	2:24
2. Teenage Lobotomy (live)	1:54
3. Blitzkrieg Bop (live)	2:05
4. I Wanna Be Well (live)	2:23
5. Glad To See You Go (live)	1:51
6. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment (live)	1:37
7. You're Gonna Kill That Girl (live)	2:34
8. I Don't Care (live)	1:46
9. Sheena Is a Punk Rocker (live)	2:16
10. Havana Affair (live)	1:34
11. Commando (live)	1:39
12. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (live)	2:54
13. Surfin' Bird (live)	2:20
14. Cretin Hop (live)	1:58
15. Listen To My Heart (live)	1:40
16. California Sun (live)	1:45
17. I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You (live)	1:24
18. Pinhead (live)	2:45
19. Do You Wanna Dance? (live)	1:39
20. Chainsaw (live)	1:28
21. Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World (live)	2:05
22. I Wanna Be a Good Boy (live)	2:10
23. Judy Is a Punk (live)	1:13
24. Suzy Is a Headbanger (live)	1:53
25. Let's Dance (live)	2:03
26. Oh Oh I Love Her So (live)	1:39
27. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue (live)	1:18
28. We're a Happy Family (live)	2:05

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Review

When the Ramones left the confines of CBGB's in 1976--where they had developed their earmark three-chord speed delivery--and took the show on the road to England, they set the punk-rock juggernaut rolling. It can't be stressed enough how influential these boys from Forest Hills, Queens, were on Britain's emerging punk-rock scene, but a few seconds into It's Alive and it's easy to tell why. It's Alive captures the phenomena of the Ramones at their peak and in their element: live and sweaty.

You've barely blinked before you realize that the first half-dozen songs have already raced past, their backdraft sucking the oxygen out of your lungs. "Rockaway Beach," "Teenage Lobotomy," "Blitzkrieg Bop," and "I Wanna Be Well" practically melt together in a three-chord melange, Tommy never letting up on the frantic beat and Joey pausing barely long enough to breathlessly shout, "Onetwothreefour!" before launching into the next set. The longest song here clocks in well short of three minutes, and many are hardly longer than one. Twenty-eight songs clock in under 48 minutes. Talk about a land-speed record. No subtleties of production or tweaking are needed here to capture the Ramones' live sound. Plug 'em in, turn everything up to 10, and let it rip. The sound of the manic crowd is practically organic. It's Alive is not just the best Ramones album, it is easily the best live punk-rock album of all time, and perhaps one of the best live albums ever set to wax. --Tod Nelson

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It's Alive

Tracks: 28, Disk length: 54m 38s (+0m 3s)

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