Madzimites Unite! Music and Other Bits.

On this week in 1976, the Ramones released their debut eponymous album, and punk rock music in America was born. I was six years old at the time and wouldn't 'discover' the Ramones for myself for another decade when I heard my older brother playing it on his turntable (yes, original vinyl!) The production of the songs was scratchy and thin like many Ramones albums, but hey, my brother liked it, so I did too. Immediately, the music consumed me - the pulse, the drive, the angry wordview. I knew the Ramones were real, not like the music of the 70s (i.e., disco) or the 80s pop of my adolescence. It exposed a world with which I as a suburban brat was unfamiliar. To this day, I still love "Judy is a Punk" and "53rd and 3rd", songs that later on served as models for my own musical creations. Later, I saw the band twice in concert (once with my future wife - still one of the best shows I've seen) and once when I met the band at a 7-11 afterwards. To this day however, when I hear this album, I think of my late brother and the things we shared in my youth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLBnJv6rImVe-LcbIsBXzIp6BpV6hqZnoO&v=skdE0KAFCEA