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Green Day, Rancid and Blink-182 Members Form Ramones Tribute Band

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Sep 102026
 
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A supergroup made up of members of Green Day, Rancid and blink-182 came together to form a Ramones tribute band called “Cretin Family,” and to perform at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles on August 30th.

Created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Ramones’ self-titled debut record, the band took the stage with the instrumental “Durango 95,” which was a frequent Ramones set opener. From there, they segued into “Rockaway Beach.” Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day played guitar and sang, while blink-182’s Travis Barker played drums and Rancid’s Tim Armstrong played guitar and sang as well. Rounding out the group was late-era Ramones bassist CJ Ramone. Continue reading »

Cover Classics: The Ramones’ ‘Acid Eaters’

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Jun 222020
 

Cover Classics takes a closer look at all-cover albums of the past, their genesis, and their legacy.

Acid Eaters

People frequently think of the Ramones as being goofball one-trick ponies, fit more for T-shirts than turntables. This grossly misrepresents their point and their purpose, never mind the debt they pay to whole swathes of earlier, largely ’60s music. Like no other punk band, the Ramones brought back the energy and the intuition up into a future (now the past) that both honors and updates those motifs. And this never became clearer than on 1993’s Acid Eaters, where many of the songs sound like they were originals that “da brudderz” wrote. Even if you know the originals forwards and backwards.

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Mike Love Trolls His Critics with Cover of The Ramones’ “Rockaway Beach”

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Jun 062019
 
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No one knows Mike Love’s place in rock n’ roll history better than Mike Love himself. In his 2016 memoir Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy, Love summed up his legacy perfectly, writing: “For those who believe that Brian [Wilson] walks on water, I will always be the Antichrist.” In a move sure to send the legions of “Love-haters” into fits of online rage, he recently recorded a cover of the Ramones’ “Rockaway Beach.” The track was released as a single in advance of Love’s upcoming solo record 12 Sides of Summer. Continue reading »

Weird Al Injects Some Accordion into Ramones Cover

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Dec 042017
 
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Master of oddball radio Dr. Demento is largely credited with popularizing “Weird Al” Yankovic by being the first DJ to play his music on the radio. The Weird One recently returned the favor by recording an accordion-driven cover of the the Ramones’ “Beat on the Brat” for Dr. Demento’s upcoming Covered in Punk compilation, the second single from that compilation after William Shatner’s version of the Cramps’ “Garbageman”.

Just to be clear, Al’s “Beat on the Brat” is not a parody. Though to be fair, the refrain to the original is so ridiculous that it might as well be a joke. The same could be said for most of the Ramones’ catalogue. For this version, “Weird Al” is backed by punk-rock supergroup Osaka Popstar, which recorded its own version in 2008. Continue reading »

Mirel Wagner Croons a Very Sedated Ramones Cover

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Feb 062017
 
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On “I Wanna Be Sedated,” the Ramones sound anything but. Mirel Wagner’s new cover though shows what the song would sound like had the band gotten its wish.

Over spare guitar finger-picking, the Finnish singer delicately enunciates each lyric. It’s about as far from the original as you can get, but it works. Gradually strings and other shimmery instruments enter, courtesy of recently Golden Globe-nominated composer and arranger Benjamin Wallfisch, but the speed never gets above 5 M.P.H. on this one. It would have fit well on our full-album covers tribute to the Ramones’ Road to Ruin. Continue reading »

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