This one's much cleverer. They smuggle in the gear change towards the end of the middle eight at 1 minute 12 seconds - so the second half of the song is a full tone higher than the first:
Grand theft Labour
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Thursday, 18 June 2009
Oh look ... another Ramones gearchange
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Did n't Phil Spector produce this? So much better than the likes of "Sheena is a punk rocker",(the only other Ramones number I can claim to enjoy)so probably was him.
The gear change, possibly enforced by the great man at gunpoint,improves the number considerably.Why do you want the second half the same as the first?The Ramones apart from using a few 50's references were like so dreary, man,like Chuck Berry singing in a sack.
Yup, it was Phil Spector, whom I have always filed in the drawer marked 'vastly overrated' next to Alfred Hitchcock, Margaret Thatcher, Salvador Dali etc.
But why should the second half be different to the first? What about 'Who Do You Love' which is just one single chord all the way through?
You're too young aren't you? :) I saw them play [or was that the Stranglers?].
The first (and best) concert I ever saw was Bo Diddley in 1983 or thereabouts. [If there were keyboards involved, it was probably The Stranglers]
Forget the keyboards the stranglers had JJ....the second best punk bass player after Colin Moulding from XTC.
Yes but "Who do you love?" has terrific words,very clearly and powerfully enunciated where the Ramones seem to have put everything through a fuzz box including their out of sync vocal "harmonies".
They seem to have tried to live down to the punk designation though "Anarchy in the UK "has a Spectorish twenty guitar overdubs.
And Spector overrated ? He kept rock and roll alive between the enforced oblivion of the first rock and rollers and the onset of the British revival: all those girl groups.
Spector was always more popular over here (BBC 2 broadcast a leave- this-genius-alone programme before his second trial,most of it the man himself protesting his innocence,quite convicingly to be honest.) It is difficult not to see his imprisonment-till- death sentence as just the latest of America's attempts to punish its great artists for being talented.Up there with Chaplin,Frank Lloyd Wright and "uppity negroes" like Ali and Berry.
And Hitchcock is majorly major too while you're on about it.
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