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The band started recording the album the in February 1976 with a budget of US $20,000, and spent an estimated US $6,400. Many recording techniques used for the album were similar to techniques used by The Beatles and orchestras. The album was produced by Craig Leon, and co-produced by drummer Tommy Ramone. The front cover depicts the band members standing in a line leaning against a brick wall. The photograph was taken by Roberta Bayley. The cover art was ranked number 58 on Rolling Stone s list of 100 Greatest Album Covers. The album features several themes, including Nazism, violence, male prostitution and drug use. It has fourteen tracks and is twenty-nine minutes and four seconds long. The group covered the song "Let's Dance" by Chris Montez. Several of the tracks have backing vocals which were sung by Mickey Leigh, Tommy Ramone, and executive producer/engineer Rob Freeman. The album received very high ratings by reviewers, with Allmusic and Rolling Stone, both rewarding it with a maximum rating of five out of five stars. Robert Christgau gave the album an A, writing "For me, it blows everything else off the radio." The album itself peaked at 111 on United States chart Billboard 200 and was ranked number 33 on Rolling Stone s The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Ramones was said by Nicholas Rombes, author of the 33⅓ book Ramones, and the Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine to be the first album labeled as punk rock. When the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one of the website's writers wrote a summary of the band's biography, specifically paying attention to its influence on punk rock. The album started the Ramones' career, and would eventually go on to influence artists in the heavy metal, thrash metal,indie pop, grunge, and post-punk genres. |
