It's Alive (Ramones album)

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It's Alive
Live album from Ramones

Publication
(s)

April 1979

Label (s) Sire Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Punk , rock

Title (number)

28

running time

54:38

occupation
  • Arturo Vega - lighting direction
  • Monte Melnick - Tour Manager
  • Bob Gruen , P. Kravitz, Adrian Boot - Photography

production

Ed Stasium , T. Erdelyi

Studio (s)

Basing Street Studios Ltd.
(Mobile recording technology),
Media Sound Studios ,
Manhattan (Mastering)

chronology
Road to Ruin
(1978) 		It's Alive End of the Century
(1980)
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It's Alive (1979)
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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
It's Alive
  UK 27 06/16/1979 (8 weeks)

It's Alive is a live album by the American punk band Ramones . It was in on 31 December 1977 and 1 January 1978 London concert hall Rainbow Theater added. After the four previous studio albums, It's Alive was the band 's first release of live recordings.

History of origin

It's Alive documents the Ramones' third tour of London - after previous appearances in July 1976 and June 1977. The punk bands The Rezillos and Generation X played in the opening act for these New Year's and New Year's appearances . At that time, inspired by the first Ramones tour there, a punk scene had already established itself in England.

The Ramones recordings were initially only released outside the USA as a double LP in 1979 ; the US publication did not take place until the 1990s. The album contains 28 tracks, which can also be found on the band's first three studio albums. Played at typical punk speed, the entire record has a playing time of less than an hour. Sometimes there are hardly any pauses between the individual tracks, only the “one-two-three-four!” Typical of Ramones concerts announces a new title.

Thus, It's Alive , the first official documentation of the essential difference between Ramones studio and live recordings: Tempo. The Ramones always played their repertoire much faster during live performances than in the studio. They had the ambition to put as many songs as possible in half an hour. Drummer and producer Tommy Ramone said:

“When we played live, we just played them faster because we felt them faster. We had to consciously slow them down in the studio. "
(German: "Live we played them [the songs] faster because we felt they were faster. In the studio we had to consciously slow them down.")

One example among many is the playing time of the piece Judy Is A Punk : while the playing time of the track on the debut album was specified as 1 min., 32 seconds, it is already 1 min., On this live album, recorded almost two years later, 14 seconds down. On the live album Loco Live , published in 1991, the length of the piece was only 1 min., 7 sec. (All comparisons refer to the respective CD editions).

The title of the album is reminiscent of the 1974 horror film The Cradle of Evil directed by Larry Cohen , in the original English-language title It's Alive .

In autumn 2007, almost thirty years after the concert, film recordings of fourteen songs from the Ramones' It's Alive New Year's Eve appearance were released on DVD for the first time. These recordings prove that Joey Ramone's vocals on the album were subsequently improved or re-recorded using overdubs .

Track list

(All songs were composed and written by the Ramones, unless otherwise stated.)

  1. Rockaway Beach - 1:57
  2. Teenage Lobotomy - 1:54
  3. Blitzkrieg Bop - 1:56
  4. I Wanna Be Well - 2:20
  5. Glad To See You Go - 1:49
  6. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment - 1:34
  7. You're Gonna Kill That Girl - 2:24
  8. I Don't Care - 1:36
  9. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - 2:15
  10. Havana Affair - 1:34
  11. Commando - 1:35
  12. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow - 2:40
  13. Surfin 'Bird (White, Frazier, Harris, Wilson) - 2:19
  14. Cretin Hop - 2:00
  15. Listen To My Heart - 1:40
  16. California Sun (Glover / Levy) - 1:45
  17. I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You - 1:35
  18. Pinhead - 2:16
  19. Do You Wanna Dance? (Freeman) - 2:24
  20. Chainsaw - 1:25
  21. Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World - 2:40
  22. I Wanna Be A Good Boy - 2:08
  23. Judy Is A Punk - 1:14
  24. Suzy Is A Headbanger - 1:51
  25. Let's Dance (Lee) - 2:05
  26. Oh Oh I Love Her So - 1:40
  27. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue - 1:20
  28. We're A Happy Family - 2:02

Total running time 54:38 minutes (CD)

Trivia

  • The banner with the band's battle cry, "Gabba Gabba Hey" , waved by Joey Ramone at the end of every live performance of the song Pinhead , had the words "Happy New Year" on the back at this New Year's Eve concert .
  • At the concert recorded for the album, miniature copies of the "Gabba Gabba Hey" banner were distributed to the audience. Some of them are shown in the photo on the back of the LP case or CD booklet from Fans Joey.

swell

  1. ↑ Ramones in the UK charts (officialcharts.com)
  2. ^ Melnick: On the Road with the Ramones , pp. 283 ff.
  3. ^ True: The Story of the Ramones , p. 104
  4. ^ True: The Story of the Ramones , pp. 105 f .: Interview with Tommy Ramone from Everett True, 2002
  5. ↑ Interview with Marky Ramone in the fanzine "Ox"

literature

  • Hey Ho Let's Go. The Story Of The Ramones by Everett True. Omnibus Press, London / New York 2002. ISBN 0-7119-9108-1 (English).
  • On the Road with the Ramones by Monte Melnick, Frank Meyer. Sanctuary Publishing Ltd., London 2003. ISBN 1-86074-514-8 (English).
  • Ramones - It's Alive 1974–1996 DVD-Video, Warner Music Entertainment 2007, Article No. 0349 70483-2.

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