Ramones Leave Home 1977 Sire 1st Ed. LP with original picture inner
$
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Description
"Always lumped in with the class of '77 in terms of punk's first wave, The Ramones first album had actually been unleashed very early in 1976. It took a good year for the band's reputation to spread beyond the environs of New York, so far ahead of their time were they. Thus, it was nearly a year later that their follow-up finally hit the shelves – the title referencing the fact that, following their UK tour, the band were now world-travellers. It contained another 14 tracks of three-minute-or-less, three-chord dumbness. Excellent stuff…
With most of the material written at the same time as their debut and having been performed live for over twelve months (how else would they have made up a full hour-long set list?), Leave Home is more of the same. But it's far from a carbon copy of its predecessor. For starters the studio budget had gone up allowing the band to get a smoother sound and a better producer. Tommy Bongiovi (second cousin to Jon Bon Jovi, fact fans) had won his engineer's spurs with no one less than Jimi Hendrix, and his production, while only taking off a few of the edges, allowed the band to refine their sound.
Subject matter-wise it was business as usual, with songs about fairground freaks (Pinhead), right-wing militarism (Commando), mental illness (Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment), misogyny (Glad To See You Go) and low rent drug abuse (Carbona Not Glue); all served with a good dose of humour. The latter again landed them in trouble, getting the album withdrawn and re-released with an alternative track (the b-side, Babysitter).
But alongside the heady rush of the full-on approach was 'da brudders' love of 60s surf-pop and Phil Spector romanticism. Their cover of The Riviera's California Sun makes perfect sense, and Joey's rendition of I Remember You is as sweet a love song as you could get.
Ultimately, Leave Home is a reconciliation and, along with the other three of their first four albums is basically as perfect and exhilarating as it could be within its own stripped-down, guitar, bass and drums universe. Gabba gabba hey, indeed…" BBC Music
Original US issue with custom inner.
nm :::: pretty much like new
nm- ::::::: few hardly noticeable flaws
ex :::: may have some, not many very minor imperfections. clean sound
vg++ :::: close to excellent, might have some hairlines, very subtle interference with sound here and there, slight ring wear on cover, some spotting, a very small seam split or writing are possible
vg+ :::: occasional interference, possibly light surface noise in few spots. There may be ring wear, minor splits on cover.
vg :::: occasional to frequent light surface noise. Cover: pronounced wear and seam splits.
cc - cut corner
srw - slight ring wear
sc - saw cut
toc - tear on cover
woc, wol - writing on cover or label
Vinyl is inspected under direct bright light.
Play-graded if needed.
All records are professionally cleaned on VPI machine.
Shipping records outside the cover to avoid seam splits.
We do combine!
Domestic $4.20 via Media Mail w/ tracking.
50 cents for each additional LP
Canada - $16Worldwide - $21
for 1-2 LP's.
Combined rate for shipping over 2 records will be based on actual weight.
You will save more on International shipping by ordering even number of LP's :::: 2,4,6.
It's likely that over 6 LP's will have to be shipped via more expensive Priority International.
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