It's Joey Ramone's birthday today!

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

He was born Jeffrey Ross Hyman in 1951. One of my all-time favorites. Post your favorite Ramones/Joey solo tracks below! Anyone remember what this song was about?

[JoseBalow]

1. Reagan visited a Nazi cemetary

"Anyone remember what this song was about?"

"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg," the Ramones 1985 single, pictured Reagan's controversial visit to a German military cemetery in Bitburg earlier that year. Critics in the US, Europe, and Israel decried the presidential visit because among the 2,000 German soldiers buried there were 49 members of the Waffen-SS who had committed genocidal atrocities. The phrase "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" was coined by protesters in the weeks leading up to Reagan's trip.[138] Before the trip, Reagan ignited more controversy when he expressed his belief that the soldiers buried at Bitburg "were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Goes_to_Bitburg


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_in_music

Related, but different

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Happy Birthday, Joey!

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

3. Ding Ding Ding!

You win some sedation, Jose! Happy Joey day.

[JoseBalow]

5. Right on!

[Americanme]

2. I only saw them once, on their Adios Amigos tour. They were great!

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[DBoon]

4. Sleater-Kinney "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone"

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

6. Nice one, D.

In honor of the Minutemen (given the song's length), here's another Ramones namecheck Apologies for the Youtube censorship.

[IcyPeas]

7. We Want The Airwaves

[IcyPeas]

8. Here are some covers by the Ramones:

Time Has Come Today

Needles and Pins

Out of Time

I Got You Babe

Little Bit of Soul (click the youtube link to listen)

Baby I Love You

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

9. Might I add "Surfin' Bird"

which they learned for and played at two shows of theirs I saw at a bar called Kelly's Pub in St. Paul, MN. It was "Leave Home" tour, but the studio version of the song appeared on "Rocket to Russia." The Trashmen were , of course, a Minnesota band who had their big hit with the song in the 1960s.

Bird is the word.

[IcyPeas]

11. Hilarious. I can just imagine the crowd going nuts.

Trying to remember where I saw them when i lived in ny...

1. The Palladium (14th street)
2. The Ritz (NY)
3. Some club on Queens Blvd. (Got to shake Joey's hand at this one. I had a friend who ran a Ramones fanzine)
4. A concert in Flushing Meadow Park
5. The World (New Years Eve)

Gabba Gabba Hey

[quaint]

10. Cretin Hop!

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