Reviews by plasma

The bass is really good here. The first track sounded shoegazey which I liked

Edit Apr 15 2026: 4 --> 3

Where are all the guitar solos and distorted power chords??? Palm-muted low E string chugs????

Anyways, it's the Beatles!!

I liked recognizing the famous riff from Johnny B. Good in Roll Over Beethoven

Gotta represent the friends of the motherland. I feel this music in my blood

SCOTLANDDDDD FOREVERRRRRRR!!!!!

Got kinda bored

Sprawl II is cool, and Empty Room intro

Bro really gave us a mission statement in track 2 like he launching a startup 💀💀

Anyways, Body Count (happily!) surprised me. The riff goes hard. I looked up Body Count and turns out it *IS* a real rock band fronted by Ice-T. Huh! That's pretty neattt

I've listened through this album a lot. For some time, I would listen through this album every day more often than not. So good!!!

I especially like Orion. In the middle it really feels like a nebula. The title track is a classic and goes really hard. I also really really love Battery

Edit Nov 4 2025: I think my favourite track is Orion now

Edit Mar 17 2026: edit from 5 --> 4. I find it more "pop-y", and I don't really like that. For example, I don't like Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

I can't unhear this 💀💀: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ0iTDafXuM

Some solid stuff here

Edit Apr 15 2026: 4 --> 3. I like the 80s sound, just not the pop-y-ness as much

Someethinggg innn the wayyyy, hmmmmm mmmm

James Bond theme covers are always welcomed

Perfect for today. The album's described as "sunny" and it was a great warm sunny day today. Good vibes for a good vibes day. Hit the spot

Also:

“The song "Say It Ain't So" appeared on US President George W. Bush's iPod in 2005.” - weird flex but ok. Jokes aside that's neat little trivia, I dig it 😃👍

Vibed with it so much I decided to listen to the bonus tracks too. It helped that I was locking in coding at the time, so it fit the atmosphere well. Truthfully though I gotta give it a 2

I felt like the "Get on with it" scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

“ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!”

My 2nd most streamed album of all time and my 2nd favourite band of all time!!!

I remember when I first heard this album, I felt like a lot of the songs all sounded the same. And near the end I was like “this is going on for a while, how soon until it’s done?”. But I really liked the raw guitar sound and still listened to the album more and it really grew on me. Now, all the songs are very different and it’s easy to tell which is which just from the opening guitar chords, when before it sounded quite similar

The nice thing about liking this album is that the Ramone’s first four albums all have the same sound and are all S tier, so tons of good content. This is their debut album and I would consider it their best though

I also gotta give major credit to Johnny Ramone as the guitar player. Their songs are mostly all exclusively barre chords, which takes a lot of strength to play for an entire concert setlist. Also the Ramones famously played their songs faster live, so playing barre chords with fast down picking the entire team isn’t easy

Fun side comment: this is the album I associate with making Strava map arts, cause I first listened to it then

And here’s some comments about each track:

1 - Blitzkreig Bop

My favourite Ramones song. Just perfect. Also super fun to play

2 - Beat on the Beat

I remember when I first heard this track when first listening through the album, I was like “huh this sounds quite similar to Blitzkreig Bop”, but now I really enjoy it and love that about the Ramones

3 - Judy is a Punk

My 2nd favourite track on the album. This one is just SOOOOO fun to sing along out loud. I love the “second verse, same as the first” and “third verse, different from the first” so much. Also “And oh, I don't know why / Oh, I don't know why / Perhaps they'll die, oh yeah” is so satisfying

4 - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

A nice slower pace song. I really like this one too

5 - Chain Saw

I love the bridge of this one

6 - Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue

😼

7 - I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement

The song lyrics say “basement” but I swear I only ever hear “base"

8 - Loudmouth

Very simple lyrics but I love it. See I don’t always need complex lyrics!

9 - Havana Affair

“I used to make a livin' man pickin' the banana!!!”

10 - Listen to My Heart

I love the “next time!”s

11 - 53rd & 3rd

My favourite lyric to say from the album: "53RD AND 3RD!!!!!!"

12 - Let's Dance

I love this one. I especially like the other "dance" Ramones song - "Do You Wanna Dance?" on Rocket To Russia

13 - I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You

Simple lyrics like a lot of their stuff but goes hard

14 - Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World

Works great as a closing track. Especially the ending of this track

I recognized Corona, that was a great track!! I realized it’s cause it got well known as the theme song for the Jackass TV show. In general the album is ok but nothing crazy to me

The drum solo felt a bit short

Edit Apr 15 2026: 2 --> 3. I like this sorta stuff more now

Looking at the album cover was the most interesting part

I vibe with it, I like the use of keyboards. In general I just find the album a bit boring for whatever reason. I'm not a super big fan of the singing voice

Also... cmon:

"Makes you want to feel like a teenager
Until you remember the feelings of
A real-life emotional teenager
Then you think again"

Ehhhhh 💀💀

The album has important themes. I really like the tale and song combo

Edit Mar 17 2026: 3 --> 1. I don't like those vocals

The cover reminds me of a Calculus textbook