Rock

Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing. Hotel California was the fifth studio album by the American rock band Eagles, released on Asylum in late 1976. It is the first Eagles album without the appearance of their founding member Bernie Leadon and their first album with guitarist Joe Walsh. Contains the hit title track as well as "Life in the Fast Lane," "New Kid in Town," "The Last Resort" and more.

• 1 Hotel California
• 2 New Kid in Town
• 3 Life in the Fast Lane
• 4 Wasted Time
• 5 Wasted Time [Reprise]
• 6 Victim of Love
• 7 Pretty Maids All in a Row
• 8 Try and Love Again
• 9 The Last Resort

The Grateful Dead rose out of their mid-'60s San Francisco roots as a hippie-blues-jam band to become one of the biggest acts on the planet. The group's free-form musical brew and free-spirited psychedelic vision are now legendary, as are their fans. Featuring eleven early classics like "Casey Jones," "Truckin'," "Friend Of The Devil," "Uncle John's Band," and "Sugar Magnolia," the band's 4x Platinum-certified 1974 hits collection Skeletons From The Closet: The Best Of The Grateful Dead remains a fine jumping off point and perennial bestseller!

1. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
2. Truckin'
3. Rosemary
4. Sugar Magnolia
5. Uncle John's Band
6. St. Stephen
7. Casey Jones
8. Mexicali Blues
9. Turn On Your Love Light
10. One More Saturday Night
11. Friend Of The Devil

The Beatles' chart-topping 1970 album Let It Be receives a range of beautifully presented Special Edition packages in October 2021! The new Special Edition follows the universally acclaimed remixed and expanded anniversary editions of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (2017), The Beatles (aka The White Album) (2018), and Abbey Road (2019). All of the new Let It Be releases feature a new stereo mix of the album, as guided by the original "reproduced for disc" version by Phil Spector, sourced directly from the original session and rooftop performance eight-track tapes. The new stereo mix is presented here on 180g vinyl LP.

While recorded in 1969, Let It Be remains the Beatles' final salvo due to its release in 1970 and the internal tensions that mark the album. Filled with a litany of underrated gems, it also hosts the universally recognized gospel-laden title track, on a par with the best material the Beatles ever recorded. Controversial due to its involvement of Spector, Let It Be marks a return to a drier, back-to-basics live-in-the-studio sound. Seldom, if ever, were the Beatles so raw and direct, as the folksy harmonies on "Two of Us" and straight-ahead charge of "I've Got a Feeling" demonstrate. And the orchestral and choir arrangements on the Spector-treated "The Long and Winding Road" simply soar.

Tracks

1. Two Of Us
2. Dig A Pony
3. Across The Universe
4. I Me Mine
5. Dig It
6. Let It Be
7. Maggie Mae
8. I've Got A Feeling
9. One After 909
10. The Long And Winding Road
11. For You Blue
12. Get Back

First-Time Ever Vinyl Release of Multi-Platinum Collection: Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits 180g 2LP Spans 1986-1993, Includes "Sweet Child O' Mine," "Civil War," and 14 More Classics

Guns N' Roses' 2004, multi-platinum best of compilation hits vinyl for the first time! Previously only available digitally and on CD, Greatest Hits is available here on audiophile 180g 2LP. The vinyl edition also features the band's single "Shadow of Your Love," which hit No. 5 on the Mainstream Rock chart. Originally recorded in December 1986, the song made its debut on the 2018 box set Appetite For Destruction. In 2004, Greatest Hits reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and in 2007 hit No. 1 on the Catalog Albums chart. Featuring all eight of the band's Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 tracks (six of them RIAA-certified Gold), Greatest Hits spans the group's five album releases, including their cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" for the 1995 film Interview With The Vampire.

The first full-length album from Guns N' Roses, 1987's Appetite For Destruction, is one of the most popular hard rock albums in history and has been on the Billboard Top 200 albums or Top Pop Catalog chart for a total of 746 weeks. Certified 18 times platinum in the U.S., Appetite For Destruction charted No. 1 for five weeks and includes three Top 10s: the anthem "Welcome To The Jungle" (No. 7), the frenzied rocker "Paradise City" (No. 5) plus their platinum selling No. 1 single "Sweet Child O' Mine."

1988's G N'R Lies, comprised of songs from the group's independently-released 1986 EP Live?!*@Like A Suicide plus new studio recordings, followed Appetite For Destruction up the charts, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The Grammy-nominated album (for Best Hard Rock Performance) was five times platinum (each platinum level connotes sales of more than one million units) and claimed the gold No. 4-charting ballad "Patience."

Then, on September 17, 1991, with one of the most anticipated releases ever in music, both Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II debuted. Use Your Illusion I featured two gold singles with "November Rain" (No. 3) and "Don't Cry" (No. 10) plus another Top 40 with "Live And Let Die" (No. 33). Use Your Illusion II boasted another gold hit with the previously-released single "You Could Be Mine" (No. 29), heard in the film Terminator II: Judgement Day.

Each of the Use Your Illusion albums went seven times platinum with Use Your Illusion I going to No. 2 and Use Your Illusion II hitting No. 1. Use Your Illusion I was Grammy-nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance as was the Wings cover "Live And Let Die." Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits also culls from II "Yesterdays," "Civil War" and GN'R's take on Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door." Both Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II have sold over seven million copies to date.

A collection of Guns N' Roses covers of classic, mainly punk, songs that had influenced the band members since their early days, 1993's The Spaghetti Incident? hit No. 4 and is certified platinum. Included on Greatest Hits are its renditions of The Dead Boys' 1978 track "Ain't It Fun" and an unlikely cover of the Skyliners' ‘50s doo-wop gem "Since I Don't Have You."

LP1

1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. Sweet Child O' Mine
3. Shadow Of Your Love
4. Patience
5. Paradise City
6. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
7. Civil War

LP2

1. You Could Be Mine
2. Don't Cry 
3. November Rain
4. Live And Let Die
5. Yesterdays
6. Ain't It Fun
7. Since I Don't Have You
8. Sympathy For The Devil

Southern California alt-rock trio Wallows quickly established themselves as a band to watch in 2018, and they are now poised for their biggest year yet with the release of their debut album Nothing Happens. Recorded at Los Angeles' Sargent Studios, the album sees Wallows reunited with Grammy award-winning producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Alvvays, Future Islands) and captures the band's journey towards adulthood through eleven intimate, introspective tracks.

1. Only Friend
2. Treacherous Doctor
3. Sidelines
4. Are You Bored Yet? (feat. Clairo)
5. Scrawny
6. Ice Cold Pool
7. Worlds Apart
8. What You Like
9. Remember When
10. I'm Full
11. Do Not Wait

Brendan O'Brien Produced/Mixed Posthumous Covers Collection Personally Selected and Sequenced by Chris Cornell!

No One Sings Like You Anymore is a posthumous collection of ten cover songs which Chris Cornell personally selected and sequenced to celebrate artists and songs that inspired him. Recorded by Cornell in 2016, the album, which is his last fully completed studio album, features his renditions of John Lennon's "Watching The Wheels," Ghostland Observatory's "Sad Sad City," Harry Nilsson's "Jump Into The Fire," Carl Hall's "You Don't Know Nothing About Love," Electric Light Orchestra's "Showdown," Terry Reid's "To Be Treated Rite," Lorraine Ellison's "Stay With Me Baby" (originally released for HBO's show Vinyl), "Get It While You Can," popularized by Janis Joplin, and a new studio recording of "Nothing Compares 2 U," written by Prince.

Cornell's cover of Gun's & Roses "Patience," which earned him his first solo Billboard No.1 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart, is also included here. All of the instruments on No One Sings Like You Anymore were played by Chris Cornell and Brendan O'Brien, who also produced and mixed the album.

"This album is so special because it is a complete work of art that Chris created from start to finish. His choice of covers provides a personal look into his favorite artists and the songs that touched him. He couldn't wait to release it," said the artist's wife Vicky Cornell.

1. Get It While You Can
2. Jump Into The Fire
3. Sad Sad City
4. Patience
5. Nothing Compares 2 U
6. Watching The Wheels
7. You Don't Know Nothing About Love
8. Showdown
9. To Be Treated Rite
10. Stay With Me Baby

Vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. Cigarettes After Sex main man Greg Gonzalez's ability to set a scene and sustain a mood reels you in deeply. On album opener K., a tale of blossoming love etched in tiny details luxuriates over chiming guitars; on the hymn to romantic compulsion of Each Time You Fall in Love, the suspended animation of Angelo Badalamenti's heart-stopping Twin Peaks music is echoed. Sunsetz and the gently lilting Sweet, meanwhile, showcase Gonzalez's ability to weave impressionistic snapshots of romance into melodies that haunt like memories of past loves, all coalescing around his melting vocals. Elsewhere, Gonzalez mounts movies in miniature with the photographic references of Flash and Fitzcarraldo echoes of Opera House, a song so lovingly languid it could, conceivably, soundtrack a man hauling ships over mountains for love. And, just as every good film-maker knows the need for a killer finale, so Gonzalez closes the album with the retro-romantic swing and teasingly filthy put-downs of Young & Dumb, which brings the album to a close with good, timeless advice: Drive your car to the beach with the song on repeat... To mirror their woozy romanticism in music, Gonzalez rejected conventional studio routes for his band, which numbers Randy Miller on bass, Jacob Tomsky on drums and Phillip Tubbs on keyboards. Taking influence from The Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Session (recorded in a church, single microphone), Cigarettes recorded most of the album in three days at the Sweatshop rehearsal space, Bushwick. The exception is Each Time You Fall in Love, which was recorded in the Beekman's stairway after hours, the ghosts of screen lovers channeled in every warm note. Like the best movie, Cigarettes After Sex holds you in a hell of a spell.

• 1 K
• 2 Each Time You Fall in Love
• 3 Sunsetz
• 4 Apocalypse
• 5 Flash
• 6 Sweet
• 7 Opera House
• 8 Truly
• 9 John Wayne
• 10 Young & Dumb [Explicit]

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 50th Anniversary remastered audio. American Beauty is the fifth studio album by rock band The Grateful Dead. Released November 1, 1970, by Warner Bros. Records, the album continued the folk rock and country music style of their previous album Workingman's Dead, issued earlier in the year. Though the Americana approach is still evident in the songwriting, comparatively the sound focused more on folk harmonies and major-key melodies, showing influence from Bob Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young.

Tracks

1. Box of Rain
2. Friend of the Devil
3. Sugar Magnolia
4. Operator
5. Candy Man
6. Ripple
7. Brokedown Palace
8. Till the Morning Comes
9. Attics of My Life
10. Truckin'

The Lumineers' new album III is audacious: every note, every syllable, and every moment of silence in between is emotionally charged. It's darker in tone than previous albums and is presented in three chapters, with each one centering on one main character from a fictitious family known as the Sparks, who span three generations in the album's storyline. III's concept began while the band was writing in the Catskill mountains, where producer Simone Felice works. Mixing raw emotional themes with their ear-catching melodies, expressive vocals and trademark acoustic sound, III moves masterly in artistic directions not yet traveled by the band. Regarding the cinematic new record, multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah Fraites says, "This collection of songs worked out in a beautiful way, and I feel with this album we've really hit our stride." Vocalist Wesley Schultz adds that lead single "Gloria," "is about love between an addict and her family." 180g vinyl 2LP-set with three bonus tracks. 

LP1

1. Donna
2. Life In The City
3. Gloria
4. It Wasn't Easy To Be Happy For You
5. Leader Of The Landslide
6. Left For Denver

LP2

1. My Cell
2. Jimmy Sparks
3. April
4. Salt And The Sea
5. Democracy (Bonus Track)
6. Old Lady (Bonus Track)
7. Soundtrack Song (Bonus Track)

This Deluxe 3LP Set contains: Original remastered album, previously unreleased full live concert

El Camino was produced by Danger Mouse and The Black Keys and was recorded in the band’s then-new hometown of Nashville during the spring of 2011.The Black Keys won three awards at the 55thannual GRAMMY Awards forEl Camino– Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Album—among other worldwide accolades. In the UK, the band was nominated for a BRIT Award (Best International Group) and an NME Award (Best International Band).The week of release, the band performed on Saturday Night Live, the Colbert Report, and the Late Show with David Letterman, and later that year, went on to perform their first Madison Square Garden show.

In the UK, the record gave the band their first top 10 hit, and in the US it debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200. The band was also the #1 most played artist at Alternative and AAA radio formats for 2012 in the US. The album’s first single, “Lonely Boy”: reached #1 on the Alternative and AAA charts; it also entered the top 10 at Rock radio.The second single, “Gold on the Ceiling,” also reached #1 on Alternative radio and the third single, “Little Black Submarines,” reached the top 3 at Alternative radio.

Tracks

LP1

1. Lonely Boy (2021 Remaster)
2. Dead and Gone (2021 Remaster)
3. Gold on the Ceiling (2021 Remaster)
4. Little Black Submarines (2021 Remaster)
5. Money Maker (2021 Remaster)
6. Run Right Back (2021 Remaster)
7. Sister (2021 Remaster)
8. Hell of a Season (2021 Remaster)
9. Stop Stop (2021 Remaster)
10. Nova Baby (2021 Remaster)
11. Mind Eraser (2021 Remaster)

LP2

1. Howlin' for You (Live in Portland, ME)
2. Next Girl (Live in Portland, ME)
3. Run Right Back (Live in Portland, ME)
4. Same Old Thing (Live in Portland, ME)
5. Dead and Gone (Live in Portland, ME)
6. Gold on the Ceiling (Live in Portland, ME)
7. Thickfreakness (Live in Portland, ME)
8. Girl Is on My Mind (Live in Portland, ME)
9. I'll Be Your Man / Your Touch (Live in Portland, ME)
10. Little Black Submarines (Live in Portland, ME)

LP3

1. Money Maker (Live in Portland, ME)
2. Strange Times (Live in Portland, ME)
3. Chop and Change (Live in Portland, ME)
4. Nova Baby (Live in Portland, ME)
5. Ten Cent Pistol (Live in Portland, ME)
6. Tighten Up (Live in Portland, ME)
7. Lonely Boy (Live in Portland, ME)
8. Everlasting Light (Live in Portland, ME)
9. She's Long Gone (Live in Portland, ME)
10. I Got Mine (Live in Portland, ME)

Limited edition 180-gram, audiophile vinyl LP pressing of this album from the Fab Four comes housed in replicated artwork. Another mega-hit album from The Beatles was 1965's "Help!" Bolstered by its own movie, this album is best known for its classic title track, "The Night Before," "Ticket to Ride," "Yesterday" and a great Buck Owen's cover: "Act Naturally." Relive Beatlemania at its best on this remastered reissue on superior sound quality 180-gram vinyl. The album peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1965. This vinyl pressing contains the 2009 digital remaster of the album, making it sound more vibrant and electrifying than ever before.

Tracks

• 1 Help!
• 2 The Night Before
• 3 You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
• 4 I Need You
• 5 Another Girl
• 6 You're Going to Lose That Girl
• 7 Ticket to Ride
• 8 Act Naturally
• 9 It's Only Love
• 10 You Like Me Too Much
• 11 Tell Me What You See
• 12 I've Just Seen a Face
• 13 Yesterday
• 14 Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Blue Smoke vinyl. American Football's first album showcases cleanly picked guitars, intricate drumming, and the vocals of Mike Kinsella (Owen, Cap'n Jazz). The band, made up of Kinsella, Steve Holmes and Steve Lamos rooted itself in Champaign and recorded this album at Private Studios with Brendan Gamble (Braid). As a band, American Football dissolved into the history books almost as soon as this album was released, but it's success continued to grow in their absence and the band eventually reunited in 2014 for the record's 15th anniversary.

• 1 Never Meant
• 2 Summer Ends
• 3 Honestly?
• 4 For Sure
• 5 You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon
• 6 But the Regrets Are Killing Me
• 7 I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional
• 8 Stay Home
• 9 One with the Wurlitzer

Vinyl 2 LP pressing. 2017 collection from the alt-rock trio. Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band chronicles the sonic journey of one of the most essential and dynamic rock bands in recent history. The playlist includes 20 hits spanning Green Day's prolific 31 years as a band, plus a brand new song called "Back In The USA" and a new duet with award-winning Country Music superstar Miranda Lambert on "Ordinary World." Green Day was formed in 1986 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt. For much of the band's career, they have been a trio with drummer Tré Cool, who replaced John Kiffmeyer in 1990 prior to the recording of the band's second studio album in 91.

Tracks

LP1

1. 2000 Light Years Away
2. Longview
3. Welcome to Paradise
4. Basket Case
5. When I Come Around
6. She
7. Brain Stew
8. Hitchin' a Ride
9. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
10. Minority
11. Warning
12. American Idiot

LP2

1. Holiday
2. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
3. Wake Me Up When September Ends
4. Know Your Enemy
5. 21 Guns
6. Oh Love
7. Bang Bang
8. Still Breathing
9. Ordinary World (feat. Miranda Lambert)
10. Back in the USA



Limited vinyl LP pressing. Live Through This is the second studio album by Hole, the band led by Courtney Love. Considered a contemporary classic, this record was included in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Features production by Sean Slade and Paul Q Kolderie with mixing by Scott Litt and J Mascis. Live Through This was Hole's only album to feature bassist Kristen Pfaff before her death in June 1994. Recorded in October 1993, the album marked a divergence from the band's unpolished hardcore aesthetics to more refined melodies and song structure. The album's lyrics and packaging reflect Love's preoccupation with beauty, and it's songs contain repeated motifs of milk, motherhood, anti-elitism, and violence against women.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Violet
• 2 Miss World
• 3 Plump
• 4 Asking for It
• 5 Jennifer's Body
• 6 Doll Parts
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Credit in the Straight World
• 2 Softer, Softest
• 3 She Walks on Me
• 4 I Think That I Would Die
• 5 Gutless
• 6 Rock Star

Vinyl LP pressing. Remastered edition of Oasis' classic debut album. 'In 20 years' time, people will buy DEFINITELY MAYBE and listen to it for what it was. That's what is important.' Noel Gallagher, August 1994. Remarkably confident words from a guitarist on the eve of his band's debut album release. But Oasis were always certain in their abilities - and the public were just as clear the five-piece were on the right track. Let's get the statistics out of the way. On it's release in August 1994, DEFINITELY MAYBE sold a record-breaking 86,000 copies in it's first week, the highest first-week sales for a debut album in Britain. It has since gone on to sell 5 million around the world. Over the course of their eight albums until disbanding in 2009, Oasis sold over 70 million albums. More importantly, the songs sound as fresh and relevant today as they did 20 years ago. A hunger to escape will always sound vital, especially if it's sung as mesmerically as Liam Gallagher and written with the urgency of Liam's older brother Noel.

Tracks

• 1 Rock N Roll Star (Remastered)
• 2 Shakermaker (Remastered)
• 3 Live Forever (Remastered)
• 4 Up in the Sky (Remastered)
• 5 Columbia (Remastered)
• 6 Supersonic (Remastered)
• 7 Bring It on Down (Remastered)
• 8 Cigarettes & Alcohol (Remastered)
• 9 Digsy's Dinner (Remastered)
• 10 Slide Away (Remastered)
• 11 Married with Children (Remastered)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. The Rolling Stones' groundbreaking multi-platinum selling album Let It Bleed was released in late 1969, charting at #1 in the UK and #3 in the US. The Rolling Stones, at this point already a critically and commercially dominant force, composed and recorded their eighth long player amidst both geopolitical and personal turmoil. The second of four Rolling Stones albums made with producer Jimmy Miller (Traffic, Blind Faith), Let It Bleed perfectly captures the ominous spirit of the times with "Gimme Shelter," the opening track.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Gimme Shelter
• 2 Love in Vain
• 3 Country Honk
• 4 Live with Me
• 5 Let It Bleed
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Midnight Rambler
• 2 You Got the Silver
• 3 Monkey Man
• 4 You Can't Always Get What You Want

30th Anniversary Vinyl LP Reissue with 2020 Remastered Audio!

1990's Shake Your Money Maker is the triple platinum debut album from The Black Crowes and the brothers Robinson named after Elmore James' classic blues number of the same name. Issued on Rick Rubin's Def American Recordings and produced by George Drakoulias, the blistering 10-song throwback is awash in vocal swagger and guitar hooks. One doesn't have to listen hard to pick up the breadcrumb trail of influences ranging from 60s and 70s groups like Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, the Allman Brothers, to Faces and the Doobie Brothers. Picking up where their predecessors left off, the Crowes were equally adept at blending rock, soul, country and gospel into something that felt new and electric.

With swagger to spare, the very first track opens the album as a declaration and a promise to rock "Twice As Hard." From the screeching sounds of a car crash on "Thick N' Thin" to Rich Robinson's wondrous dexterity on "Struttin Blues," the whole album has that lighting in a bottle feeling and the raw energy of a live band who can't be contained. But the real success of the album relied upon a pair of No.1 mainstream rock singles, "She Talks to Angels" and "Hard To Handle," which reached the top spot on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and No.26 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Shake Your Money Maker was evidence of a band that was mature beyond their years and primed to take their place in rock history rather than just study it. Original album remastered in 2020.

1. Twice As Hard
2. Jealous Again
3. Sister Luck
4. Could I've Been So Blind
5. Seeing Things
6. Hard to Handle
7. Thick n' Thin
8. She Talks to Angels
9. Struttin' Blues
10. Stare It Cold
11. Mercy, Sweet Moan

2011 2 X vinyl LP remastered reissue of their 1994 third album. Produced by Brendan O'Brien. Three singles were released from the album, 'Spin the Black Circle', 'Not for You' & 'Immortality'.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Last Exit
• 2 Spin the Black Circle
• 3 Not for You
• 4 Tremor Christ
• 5 Nothingman
• 6 Whipping
• 7 Pry, to
• 8 Corduroy
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Bugs
• 2 Satan's Bed
• 3 Better Man
• 4 Aya Davanita
• 5 Immortality
• 6 Stupidmop

The Cure Head On The Door on 180g LP

Originally a postpunk outfit with gothic leanings, The Cure evolved into one of the most visionary, creatively satisfying and influential groups to come of age in the 1980's. From dreamy pop to moody expressionism, their signature sound is adventurous, hypnotic, and rich with texture. Formed in 1976 by Robert Smith and schoolmates Michael Dempsey (bass) and Laurence Tolhurst (drums), The Cure's stunning 1979 debut on U.K.-based Fiction Records launched an extraordinary career and enduring worldwide popularity.

The Cure's 1985 album Head On The Door - their sixth full-length overall - marked another turning point for the band with its emerging pop sensibilities and talented new line-up that saw the return of bassist Simon Gallup, the re-induction of early-era guitarist Porl Thompson, and the debut of drummer Boris Williams. Co-produced with David M. Allen, the adventurous 10-track effort is still dark yet danceable and altogether infectious, home to the vibrant hit singles "In Between Days" and "Close To Me." Head On The Door was the first glimpse of the pop heights the Cure was perfectly capable of reaching.

1. In Between Days
2. Kyoto Song
3. The Blood
4. Six Different Ways
5. Push
6. The Baby Screams
7. Close To Me
8. A Night Like This
9. Screw
10. Sinking

Reissued with Superior Remastered Audio on 180g Vinyl

The Ramones sounded like nothing else when their self-titled debut came roaring onto the scene in 1976. Even so, original drummer Tommy Ramone did do a pretty good job describing the band's primal sound when he penned the quartet's press bio that same year. "The Ramones all originate from Forest Hills and kids who grew up there either became musicians, degenerates or dentists. The Ramones are a little of each," he observed. "Their sound is not unlike a fast drill on a rear molar."

Named the "Greatest Punk Album Of All Time" by Rolling Stone, and certainly one of the most important and influential albums of all time, the 29-minute masterpiece helped launch the punk rock scenes in both America and Britain, and also went on to inspire countless other artists for generations to come. Bringing a bubblegum sensibility to the fast-and-hard mentality, their primal sound is considered a blueprint for all things resembling snotty, catchy, ear-bleeding punk rock.

And with cornerstone anthems like "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Beat on the Brat," "Judy Is A Punk" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" as its first four songs alone, Ramones stature and supremacy is hard to argue.

1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. Beat On The Brat
3. Judy Is A Punk
4. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
5. Chain Saw
6. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
7. I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement
8. Loudmouth
9. Havana Affair
10. Listen To My Heart
11. 53rd & 3rd
12. Let's Dance
13. I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
14. Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World