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| rdfs:comment | - The band started recording the album in February 1976 and spent an estimated US $6,400. Many recording techniques used for the album were similar to techniques used by The Beatles and orchestral recordings. The album was produced by Craig Leon. 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.
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| Description | - "Blitzkrieg Bop" was written by Tommy, and later reviewed by Dee Dee. The song's original concept was about people going to a concert, but after Dee Dee reviewed the lyrics, he added a Nazi-related theme. Joey said that the song "was sort of a call to arms... for everyone to start their own bands."
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| Recorded | - February, 1976 at Plaza Sound, Radio City Music Hall in New York City
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| abstract | - The band started recording the album in February 1976 and spent an estimated US $6,400. Many recording techniques used for the album were similar to techniques used by The Beatles and orchestral recordings. The album was produced by Craig Leon. 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 a number of themes including Nazism, violence, male prostitution and drug use, as well as lighter fare such as horror movies and teenage romance. There is a version of the Chris Montez song "Let's Dance". A number of the tracks have backing vocals which were sung by Mickey Leigh (Joey Ramone's younger brother), Tommy Ramone, and engineer Rob Freeman. The album received high praise from critics. Writing at the time, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album an A grade, stating that "For me, it blows everything else off the radio." Several decades later AllMusic rewarded it with a maximum rating of five out of five stars. The album reached number 111 in the United States on the Billboard 200 chart, was ranked number 33 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and has been inducted into the National Recording Registry. 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 hardcore punk, post-punk, heavy metal, thrash metal, alternative, and grunge genres.
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