ABSTRACT
The first band emerging from 1970s New York punk scene to issue an album, the Ramones established the template for the movement: frenetic tempos, terse songs-often less than two minutes in length, stripped-down arrangements featuring buzz-saw guitars, humorously moronic lyrics, and a scruffy transmogrified hippie-greaser (torn blue jeans and leather
jackets) fashion sense. After touring the U.K. in mid-1976, their bash-trash-pop sound and cartoonish attitude would be copied by countless new English punk acts-indeed, the Ramones’recordings would always find a more receptive audience in the U.K.
