C Bakunas Art: Everybody Likes The Ramones Now (yeah, yeah)

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Everybody

Likes the Ramones now (yeah, yeah)

Everybody

Likes the Ramones now (yeah, yeah)

There was a time when they played before 1000 or so on a good night

Playing fast and loud, drums and bass tighter than tight

Didn't have T-shirts, had to make 'em yourself

Couldn't hear it on the radio, had to buy their albums off the back shelf

Rocket to Russia was the first one bought at Tower off Rosecrans

Played incessantly with mom yelling it belonged in the trashcan

Lobotomy, lobotomy, lobotomy and Rockaway Beach occasionally

Short, simple and sharp, not that pretty vacant obscenity

Nobody wanted to hear the noise created by those Forest Hill boys

Leather jackets and denim jeans, converse all-stars to complete the scene

And we hopped and bopped and slammed until we could hardly stand

All of us sharing in the grand new energy emanating from this fantastic band

Everybody

Likes the Ramones now (yeah, yeah)

Everybody

Likes the Ramones now (yeah, yeah)

Buying T-shirts at Hot Topic or Spencers

Hearing songs on the radio, praised now by the old suppressors

Gabba gabba hey chanted by school children in the middle of the day

Never for a moment knowing it never got a minutes airplay

PJ Soles (bless her soul) danced with them on the big screen

Rock and Roll High School was the perfect movie at sixteen

Funny, freaky, fearless in that slightly irreverent '70's way

Gave the band a bigger audience and an even bigger payday

Then Phil came around and the band's energy decidedly unwound

Brought in some big guns, added piano, overdubs and the wall of sound

Baby I Love You was covered and became the first nail in the coffin

The Punk was relegated to the corner when the Pop walked in

Everybody

Likes the Ramones now (yeah, yeah)

Everybody

Likes the Ramones now (yeah, yeah)

C Bakunas Art