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The Ramones: It's Alive 1974 - 1996 (2 Discs)

Featuring: The Ramones

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Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy, Marky, Richie, and C-Jay - the Ramones will always be the first "family" of punk. Together more than 20 years, the Ramones inspired legions of followers as they refined their signature garage-flavored, ear-shattering, pop-skewed sound with a string of now-classic, loud-and-fast punk rock records and 2,263 concerts. Rhino sends you back to rock rock, rock 'n' roll high school with a double-DVD that captures the essence of the Ramones' legendary racket with more than four hours of rare and unreleased performances.

More than four years in the making, Tommy Ramone served as music supervisor for this collection. Arranged chronologically over two DVDs, It's Alive 1974 - 1996 relives some of the band's best performances with live footage of more than 100 songs, including "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker," "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue," "Beat On The Brat" and "I Wanna Be Sedated." With more than four hours of impossible-to-find and unreleased live footage, this collection will make you feel like you're standing in stale beer at CBGB shouting along with Dee Dee as he counts off, "One, two, three, four!"

The DVD also includes previously unreleased footage filmed on New Year's Eve in 1977 during the band's incendiary performance at The Rainbow Theatre in London. The entire concert was released in 1979 as the It's Alive album, considered one of the best live records ever. The DVD features 14 songs in 5.1 Surround Sound taken from the show including "Pinhead," "We're A Happy Family," and "Havana Affair."

Nine performances recorded in 1982 at the US Festival in San Bernardino, CA are also featured here in 5.1 Surround Sound. The band fires off hit after hit, blazing through "The KKK Took My Baby Away," "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment," and "Rock 'n' Roll High School." During the show, the band also covers "Chinese Rocks," a song Dee Dee wrote, which was recorded by Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers.

Spanning the Ramones' entire career, the DVD follows the band from its earliest performances at CBGB, to their last international performance in Argentina. It's Alive 1974-1996 travels around the world with the Ramones, capturing priceless performances in the U.K., Germany, Sweden, Spain, Argentina, Finland, Italy and the U.S. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, the band may be gone, but their sound and influence are indestructible.
ActorsThe Ramones
CertificateExempt from Classification
LanguagesEnglish
RegionRegion 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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 Average rating (3 reviews)

 I don't wanna grow up!!!

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This is the finest DVD I gave purchased in years, it is crammed full of fantastic performances from start to finish, I am a little bias as I love the ramones. Any self respected Ramones fan must have this set in their collection. Highlights are the concert from German Musikladen {with 11 tracks), one of my faves, a performance from TOTP's from 1995, good picture quality and 5.1 and stereo options.
Gimme Gimme shock treatment !!!!!!!

 Too much of too little

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You had to be there to appreciate punk, or at least the 70s wave. The real talents in 'plug-in and blast' minimalist rock were the mid-and late-60s US garage outfits, like the Seeds. 70s punk may have unblocked rock's arteries but it didn't cause much of value to flow through them. Very few people, least of all in The Ramones, knew how to write a strong song. Playing something very loud and fast says nothing about power or commitment, let alone artistry. This is for Ramones fans only - anyone else tempted by this band's hype will be badly let down. There's about twenty minutes of good stuff here: just how often can you listen to the same song with a different title?

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