ROCK AND ROLL COLLEGE

Intro; Blitzkrieg Bop; Teenage Lobotomy; Rockaway Beach; I Don't Want You; Go Mental; Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment; Rock'N'Roll High School; I Wanna Be Sedated; I Just Want to Have Something to Do; She's the One; I'm Against It; Sheena is a Punk Rocker; Havana affair; Commando; Needles & Pins; I'm Affected; I Want You Around; Surfin' Bird; Cretin Hop; All the Way; California Sun; I Don't Want to Walk Around With You; Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World; Pinhead; Do You Wanna Dance; Suzy is a Headbanger; Let's Dance; Chinese Rocks; The Return of Jackie & Judy; We're a Happy Family.

Live Ramones bootlegs usually only vary in sound quality, as the Brothers Ramone (how many writers have used that clever, lazy, and affectionate way of restating their name?) were nothing if not fairly consistent live. With "I Want You Around" lasting for a little over two and a half minutes (an epic by anyone's standards), the boys rip into 31 tunes in a little over an hour, stopping to inhale half a breath before ONE TWO THREE FOUR. "Surfin' Bird' is almost transcendent; "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" made me dance around my office in my underwear, waving to the neighbors across the driveway. Much better than the official live releases, this 1979 show just about captures the Ramones in their strict beach-blanket-bingo-in-leather ethos best (minus, at this show at least, their by-way-of-puberty Ronettes' harmonies).