Ramones

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The original members of the band met in and around the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills in the New York City borough of Queens. John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi had both been in a high-school garage band from 1965 to 1967 known as the Tangerine Puppets.{{cite web|author=Laitio-Ramone, Jari-Pekka|url=http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/story/tange.html|title=Tangerine Puppets (Interview with Richard Adler)|year=1997|publisher=Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramonen Henkilökohtainen Kotisivutuotos|access-date=November 5, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104182247/http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/story/tange.html|archive-date=January 4, 2009|df=mdy-all}} They became friends with Douglas Colvin, who had recently moved to the area from Germany,{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/endofthecentury/ramones.html|title=End of the Century: The Ramones|work=Independent Lens|publisher=PBS|access-date=November 7, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110225615/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/endofthecentury/ramones.html|archive-date=November 10, 2012|url-status=live}} and Jeff Hyman, who was the singer for the glam rock band Sniper, founded in 1972.{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,107146-2,00.html|title=Pal Joey|last=Enright|first=Michael|date=April 20, 2001|magazine=Time|access-date=October 20, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205234544/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,107146-2,00.html|archive-date=December 5, 2011|url-status=dead}}McNeil and McCain (1996), pp. 181, 496.{{Cite web|url=https://garagehangover.com/ageofreason/|title=The Age of Reason |website=Garagehangover.com|access-date=November 8, 2019}}

The Ramones began taking shape in early 1974 when Cummings and Colvin invited Hyman to join them in a band. Colvin wanted to play guitar and sing, Cummings would also play guitar and Hyman would play drums. The lineup was to be completed with their friend Richie Stern on bass. However, after only a few rehearsals it became clear that Stern could not play bass, so the group parted ways with him and became a trio, with Colvin switching from guitar to bass in addition to singing while Cummings became the only guitarist.{{cite book|last1=Ramone|first1=Johnny|author-link1=Johnny Ramone|title=Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone|date=April 2012|publisher=Abrams Image|location=New York City, New York|isbn=9780810996601|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dBZlyEn5H1gC&q=richie+stern&pg=PT47|access-date=7 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208073533/https://books.google.ca/books?id=dBZlyEn5H1gC&pg=PT47&dq=richie+stern&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGmcu_3pbXAhVm34MKHWFaDi4Q6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=richie%20stern&f=false|archive-date=December 8, 2017|url-status=live}} Colvin was the first to adopt the name "Ramone", calling himself Dee Dee Ramone. He was inspired by Paul McCartney's use of the pseudonym Paul Ramon during his Silver Beetles days.Melnick and Meyer (2003), p. 32.Sandford (2006), p. 11. Dee Dee convinced the other members to take on the name and came up with the idea of calling the band the Ramones.{{cite web|url=http://www.punkbands.com/interviews.php?id=71|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060319010949/http://www.punkbands.com/interviews.php?id=71|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 19, 2006|title=Interview with Marky Ramone|date=November 30, 1999|publisher=PunkBands.com|access-date=November 3, 2009}} Hyman and Cummings became Joey and Johnny Ramone, respectively.

A friend of the band, Monte A. Melnick (later their tour manager), helped to arrange rehearsal time for them at Manhattan's Performance Studios, where he worked. Johnny's former bandmate Erdelyi was set to become their manager. Soon after the band was formed, Dee Dee realized that he could not sing and play his bass guitar simultaneously; with Erdelyi's encouragement, Joey became the band's new lead singer. Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!" Joey soon similarly realized that he could not sing and play drums simultaneously and left the position of drummer. While auditioning prospective replacements, Erdelyi would often take to the drums and demonstrate how to play the songs. It became apparent that he was able to perform the group's music better than anyone else, and he joined the band as Tommy Ramone.Melnick and Meyer (2003), p. 33.

The Ramones played before an audience for the first time on March 30, 1974, at Performance Studios. The songs they played were very fast and very short; most clocked in at under two minutes. Around this time, a new music scene was emerging in New York centered on two clubs in downtown Manhattan—Max's Kansas City and, more famously, CBGB (usually referred to as CBGB's). The Ramones made their CBGB debut on August 16, 1974.[https://www.facebook.com/JohnnyRamone/photos/a.10150703813846521.491576.43468756520/10153036882146521/?type=1&theater Johnny Ramone - Timeline Photos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202080559/https://www.facebook.com/JohnnyRamone/photos/a.10150703813846521.491576.43468756520/10153036882146521/?type=1&theater |date=February 2, 2016 }}. Facebook. Retrieved on September 20, 2015. Legs McNeil, who cofounded Punk magazine the following year, later described the impact of that performance: "They were all wearing these black leather jackets. And they counted off this song ... and it was just this wall of noise ... They looked so striking. These guys were not hippies. This was something completely new."{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/endofthecentury/legacy.html|title=End of the Century: The Ramones|publisher=PBS|access-date=November 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100506053944/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/endofthecentury/legacy.html|archive-date=May 6, 2010|url-status=live}}

The band swiftly became regulars at the club, playing there seventy-four times by the end of the year. After garnering considerable attention for their performances—which averaged about seventeen minutes from beginning to end—the group was signed to a recording contract in late 1975 by Seymour Stein of Sire Records. Sire A&R man Craig LeonMelnick and Meyer (2003), p. 101. saw the band and brought them to the attention of the label. Stein's wife, Linda Stein, saw the band play at Mothers; she would later co-manage them along with Danny Fields.Bessman (1993), p. 211. By this time, the Ramones were recognized as leaders of the new scene that was increasingly being referred to as "punk".Strongman (2008), p. 62.Savage (1992), pp. 130, 156. The group's unusual frontman had a lot to do with their impact. As Dee Dee explained, "All the other singers [in New York] were copying David Johansen [of the New York Dolls], who was copying Mick Jagger ... But Joey was unique, totally unique."Quoted in Strongman (2008), p. 61.

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The Ramones recorded their debut album, Ramones, in February 1976. Of the fourteen songs on the album, the longest, "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", barely surpassed two and a half minutes. While the songwriting credits were shared by the entire band, and each member did contribute some writing, much of the writing was done by Dee Dee.{{cite book|first=Les|last=MacDonald|title=The Day the Music Died|quote=Dee Dee was the main writer even though the band shared the songwriting credits|date=Dec 23, 2013|publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=9781453522677|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_1IsKvqj5tcC&q=ramones+debut+dee+dee+songwriter&pg=PA349|access-date=August 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217111824/https://books.google.com/books?id=_1IsKvqj5tcC&pg=PA349&lpg=PA349&dq=ramones+debut+dee+dee+songwriter&source=bl&ots=ygNh3QSM6B&sig=XoOVcExO3l3OAg1vaNFlQ1GkVBo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sE8DVOayLJC4ggTa5oDgBw&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=ramones%20debut%20dee%20dee%20songwriter&f=false|archive-date=February 17, 2017|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4D-JpAKGLg| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/l4D-JpAKGLg| archive-date=2021-10-28|title=Who wrote what? By Tommy Ramone|access-date=June 20, 2021|publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} The Ramones album was produced by Sire's Craig Leon, with Tommy as associate producer, on an extremely low budget of about $6,400 and released in April.Schnider (2007), pp. 543–44. The now iconic front cover photograph of the band was taken by Roberta Bayley, a photographer for Punk magazine.Bessman (1993), pp. 48, 50; Miles, Scott, and Morgan (2005), p. 136. Punk, which was largely responsible for codifying the term for the scene emerging around CBGB, ran a cover story on the Ramones in its third issue, the same month as the album's release.Taylor (2003), pp. 16–17.

The Ramones' debut album was greeted by rock critics with glowing reviews. The Village Voice{{'}}s Robert Christgau wrote, "I love this record—love it—even though I know these boys flirt with images of brutality (Nazi especially) ... For me, it blows everything else off the radio."Quoted in Bessman (1993), p. 55. In Rolling Stone, Paul Nelson described it as "constructed almost entirely of rhythm tracks of an exhilarating intensity rock & roll has not experienced since its earliest days." Characterizing the band as "authentic American primitives whose work has to be heard to be understood", he declared, "It is time popular music followed the other arts in honoring its primitives."{{cite magazine| author=Nelson, Paul| date=July 29, 1976| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/ramones-19760729| magazine=Rolling Stone| title=Album Reviews: Ramones: Ramones| access-date=February 22, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607193252/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/ramones-19760729| archive-date=June 7, 2011| url-status=live}} Newsday{{'}}s Wayne Robbins simply anointed the Ramones as "the best young rock 'n' roll band in the known universe."Quoted in Bessman (1993), p. 56.

Despite Sire's high hopes for it,Bessman (1993), p. 55. Ramones was not a commercial success, reaching only number 111 on the Billboard album chart.{{cite web|title=Ramones Biography|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|work=Billboard|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/359662/ramones/biography|access-date=August 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613183522/http://www.billboard.com/artist/359662/ramones/biography|archive-date=June 13, 2015|url-status=live}} The two singles issued from the album, "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", failed to chart. At the band's first major performance outside of New York, a June date in Youngstown, Ohio, members of Cleveland punk legends Frankenstein aka the Dead Boys were present and struck up a friendship with the band.Ramone and Kofman (2000), p. 77. It was not until they made a brief tour of England that they began to see the fruits of their labor; a performance at the Roundhouse in London on July 4, 1976, with The Stranglers supporting the Flamin' Groovies, organized by Linda Stein, was a resounding success.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2007/music/news/linda-stein-62-manager-real-estate-broke-1117975182/ |title=Linda Stein, 62, Manager/Real Estate Broker: Pioneer of Punk Music Killed in N.Y. Apartment|date=November 1, 2007|work=Variety|access-date=November 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106040140/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117975182.html?categoryid=25&cs=1|archive-date=January 6, 2009|url-status=live}} T. Rex leader Marc Bolan was in attendance at the Roundhouse show and was invited on stage.{{cite web|first=Karen|last=Laney|title=Late T. Rex Singer Marc Bolan's Girlfriend Gloria Jones Keeps His Memory Alive|date=Sep 30, 2012|publisher=Ultimate Classic Rock|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/t-rex-marc-bolan-girlfriend-gloria-jones-keeps-memory-alive/|access-date=August 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904175632/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/t-rex-marc-bolan-girlfriend-gloria-jones-keeps-memory-alive/|archive-date=September 4, 2014|url-status=live}}{{cite web|first=Greg|last=Whitmore|title=40 years of Ramones – in pictures|work=The Guardian|date=July 12, 2014|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2014/apr/30/ramones-at-40-punk-in-pictures#/?picture=435675820&index=4|access-date=August 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910084641/http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2014/apr/30/ramones-at-40-punk-in-pictures#/?picture=435675820&index=4|archive-date=September 10, 2014|url-status=live}} Their Roundhouse appearance and a club date the following night—where the band met members of the Sex Pistols and the Clash—helped galvanize the burgeoning UK punk rock scene.{{cite web|author=Powers, Ann|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07EFDE1F31F934A25757C0A9679C8B63|title=Joey Ramone, Raw-Voiced Pioneer of Punk Rock, Dies at 49|work=The New York Times|date=April 17, 2001|access-date=November 3, 2009}} The Flamin' Groovies/Ramones double bill was successfully reprised at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles the following month, fueling the punk scene there as well. The Ramones were becoming an increasingly popular live act—a Toronto performance in September energized yet another growing punk scene.{{cite web| author =Worth, Liz| title =A Canadian Punk Revival| work =Exclaim| date =June 2007| url =http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/research.aspx?csid1=111| access-date =November 5, 2009| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080506205801/http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/research.aspx?csid1=111| archive-date =May 6, 2008| df =mdy-all}}

Their next two albums, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia, were released in 1977. Both were produced by Tommy and Tony Bongiovi, the second cousin of Jon Bon Jovi.{{cite web| author =Jones, Chris| title =The Ramones Leave Home| publisher =BBC| date =January 24, 2008| url =https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/cz54/| access-date =November 5, 2009| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20090114204657/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/cz54/| archive-date =January 14, 2009| url-status =live}} Leave Home met with even less chart success than Ramones, though it did include "Pinhead", which became one of the band's signature songs with its chanted refrain of "Gabba gabba hey!" Leave Home also included a fast-paced cover of the oldie "California Sun", written by Henry Glover & Morris Levy, and originally recorded by Joe Jones,{{cite web |author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/leave-home-mw0000318811 |title=Leave Home – The Ramones |website=AllMusic |date=August 12, 1976 |access-date=July 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817190443/http://www.allmusic.com/album/leave-home-mw0000318811 |archive-date=August 17, 2014 |url-status=live }} though the Ramones based their version on the remake by the Rivieras. Rocket to Russia was the band's highest-charting album to date, reaching number 49 on the Billboard 200.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r16121|pure_url=yes}}|title=Charts & Awards Rocket to Russia|website=Allmusic|access-date=October 20, 2009}} In Rolling Stone, critic Dave Marsh called it "the best American rock & roll of the year".{{cite magazine |last=Marsh |first=Dave | date=December 15, 1977 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theramones/albums/album/209183/review/5946204/rocket_to_russia | magazine=Rolling Stone| title=Album Reviews: Ramones: Rocket to Russia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209072706/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theramones/albums/album/209183/review/5946204/rocket_to_russia|archive-date=February 9, 2009 |url-status=dead | access-date=February 22, 2012}} The album also featured the first Ramones single to enter the Billboard charts (albeit only as high as number 81): "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker". The follow-up single, "Rockaway Beach", reached number 66—the highest any Ramones single would ever reach in America. On December 31, 1977, the Ramones recorded It's Alive, a live concert double album, at the Rainbow Theatre, London, which was released in April 1979 (the title is a reference to the 1974 horror film of the same name).Stim (2006), p. 221.

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Tommy, tired of touring, left the band in early 1978. He continued as the Ramones' record producer under his birth name of Erdelyi. His position as drummer was filled by Marc Bell, who had been a member of the early 1970s hard rock band Dust, Wayne County,{{cite web|url=http://www.ifc.com/zrock/cast/marky-ramone.php|title=Cast and Crew: Marky Ramone|publisher=IFC.com|access-date=March 8, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110509042128/http://www.ifc.com/zrock/cast/marky-ramone.php|archive-date=May 9, 2011|df=mdy-all}} and the pioneering punk group Richard Hell and the Voidoids.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p116834|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography Markey Ramone|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|website=Allmusic|access-date=October 20, 2009}} Bell adopted the name Marky Ramone. Later that year, the band released their fourth studio album, and first with Marky, Road to Ruin. The album, co-produced by Tommy with Ed Stasium, included some new sounds such as acoustic guitar, several ballads, and the band's first two recorded songs longer than three minutes. It failed to reach the Billboard Top 100. However, "I Wanna Be Sedated", which appeared both on the album and as a single, would become one of the band's best-known songs.{{cite web|author=Boldman, Gina | url={{AllMusic|class=song|id=t4297980|pure_url=yes}} | website=Allmusic | access-date=November 5, 2009| title=I Wanna Be Sedated}} The artwork on the album's cover was done by Punk magazine cofounder John Holmstrom.{{cite web|url=http://metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=5901|title=John Holmstrom: Floating in a Bottle of Formaldehyde|last=Morgan|first=Jeffrey|date=February 4, 2004|work=Metro Times|publisher=Times-Shamrock Communications|access-date=November 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605180207/http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=5901|archive-date=June 5, 2009|url-status=live}}

After the band's movie debut in Roger Corman's Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), producer Phil Spector became interested in the Ramones and produced their fifth album End of the Century (1980). There is a long-disputed rumor that during the recording sessions in Los Angeles, Spector held Dee Dee at gunpoint, forcing him to repeatedly play a riff.{{cite news| author = Harlow, John| title = Spector Calls Ex-Wife for Murder Defence| work = Sunday Times| date = March 18, 2007| url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1530531.ece| access-date = November 5, 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100604024438/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1530531.ece| archive-date = June 4, 2010| url-status = dead}} Although it was to be the highest-charting album in the band's history—reaching number 44 in the United States and number 14 in Great Britain—Johnny made clear that he favored the band's more aggressive punk material: "End of the Century was just watered-down Ramones. It's not the real Ramones."Leigh and McNeil (2009), p. 201. This stance was also conveyed by the title and track selection of the compilation album Johnny later oversaw, Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits. Despite these reservations, Johnny did concede that some of Spector's work with the band had merit, saying "It really worked when he got to a slower song like 'Danny Says'—the production really worked tremendously. 'Rock 'N' Roll Radio' is really good. For the harder stuff, it didn't work as well."{{cite magazine| author = Devenish, Colin| title =Johnny Ramone Stays Tough: Ramones Guitarist Reflects on Dee Dee's Death and the Difficult Eighties| magazine = Rolling Stone| date = June 24, 2002| url =https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theramones/articles/story/5934320/johnny_ramone_stays_tough| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20090301032347/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theramones/articles/story/5934320/johnny_ramone_stays_tough| archive-date =March 1, 2009| url-status = dead| access-date=November 5, 2009}} Retrieved from Internet Archive December 16, 2013. The string-laden Ronettes cover "Baby, I Love You" released as a single, became the band's biggest hit in Great Britain, reaching number 8 on the charts.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1316313/Joey-Ramone.html|title=Joey Ramone Obituary|date=April 17, 2001|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=November 3, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091225174646/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1316313/Joey-Ramone.html|archive-date=December 25, 2009|url-status=live}}

Pleasant Dreams, the band's sixth album, was released in 1981. It continued the trend established by End of the Century, taking the band further from the raw punk sound of its early records. As described by Trouser Press, the album, produced by Graham Gouldman of UK pop act 10cc, moved the Ramones "away from their pioneering minimalism into heavy metal territory."Isler and Robbins (1991), p. 533. Johnny would contend in retrospect that this direction was a record company decision, a continued futile attempt to get airplay on American radio.{{cite web |title=The Ramones |url=http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/ramones/artist.jhtml#bio |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529120911/http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/ramones/artist.jhtml%23bio |archive-date=May 29, 2012 |access-date=November 18, 2018 |publisher=MTV}} While Pleasant Dreams reached number 58 on the U.S. chart, its two singles failed to register at all.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r16124|pure_url=yes}}|title=Charts & Awards Pleasant Dreams|website=Allmusic|access-date=November 3, 2009}}

Subterranean Jungle, produced by Ritchie Cordell and Glen Kolotkin, was released in 1983.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r16125|pure_url=yes}}|title=Overview Subterranean Jungle|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|website=Allmusic|access-date=November 3, 2009}} According to Trouser Press, it brought the band "back to where they once belonged: junky '60s pop adjusted for current tastes", which among other things meant "easing off the breakneck rhythm that was once Ramones dogma." Billy Rogers, who had performed with Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, played drums on the album's second single, a cover of the Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today", becoming the only song showing three different drummers: Rogers on recording, Marky on album credits and Richie on video clip.{{cite book|last=Gaines|first=Donna|author-link=Donna Gaines|title=A Misfit's Manifesto: the Sociological Memoir of a Rock & Roll Heart|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2007|page=[https://archive.org/details/misfitsmanifesto00gains/page/198 198]|isbn=978-0-8135-4054-2|url=https://archive.org/details/misfitsmanifesto00gains|url-access=registration|access-date=November 6, 2009}} Subterranean Jungle peaked at number 83 in the United States—it would be the last album by the band to crack the Billboard Top 100.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r16125|pure_url=yes}}|title=Charts & Awards Subterranean Jungle|website=Allmusic|access-date=November 3, 2009}}{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=ramones|chart=all}}|title=Chart History—The Ramones|magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 7, 2009}} In 2002, Rhino Records released a new version of it with seven bonus tracks.{{cite web |url=http://www.stillinrock.com/2014/03/anachronique-ramones-glam-rock.html |title=Brooklyn based Music Blog: Anachronique : Ramones (Glam Rock) |publisher=Still in Rock |date=February 26, 2004 |access-date=April 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418031113/http://www.stillinrock.com/2014/03/anachronique-ramones-glam-rock.html |archive-date=April 18, 2014 |url-status=live }}

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After the release of Subterranean Jungle, Marky was fired from the band due to his alcoholism.Bessman (1993), p. 127. He was replaced by Richard Reinhardt, who adopted the name Richie Ramone. Joey Ramone remarked that "[Richie] saved the band as far as I'm concerned. He's the greatest thing to happen to the Ramones. He put the spirit back in the band."{{cite web|url=http://www.bignoisenow.com/ramones.html|title=Ramones Get Back the Spirit|publisher=Bignoisenow.com|access-date=July 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503004911/http://www.bignoisenow.com/ramones.html|archive-date=May 3, 2014|url-status=live}} Richie is the only Ramones drummer to sing lead vocals on Ramones songs, including "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice" as well as the unreleased "Elevator Operator". Joey Ramone commented, "Richie's very talented and he's very diverse ... He really strengthened the band a hundred percent because he sings backing tracks, he sings lead, and he sings with Dee Dee's stuff. In the past, it was always just me singing for the most part."{{cite book | last =Leigh | first =Mickey | title =I Slept With Joey Ramone | publisher =Touchstone | year =2009 | isbn =978-0-7432-5216-4 | page =[https://archive.org/details/isleptwithjoeyra00leig/page/229 229] | url =https://archive.org/details/isleptwithjoeyra00leig | url-access =registration }} Richie was also the only drummer to be the sole composer of Ramones songs including their hit "Somebody Put Something in My Drink" as well as "Smash You", "Humankind", "I'm Not Jesus", "I Know Better Now" and "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice". Joey Ramone supported Richie's songwriting contributions: "I encouraged Richie to write songs. I figured it would make him feel more a part of the group, because we never let anybody else write our songs."{{cite book | last =Leigh | first =Mickey | title =I Slept With Joey Ramone | publisher =Touchstone | year =2009 | isbn =978-0-7432-5216-4 | page =[https://archive.org/details/isleptwithjoeyra00leig/page/230 230] | url =https://archive.org/details/isleptwithjoeyra00leig | url-access =registration }}{{cite book | last =True | first =Everett | title =Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of The Ramones | publisher =Omnibus Press | year =2002 | isbn =0-7119-9108-1 | page =[https://archive.org/details/heyholetsgo00ever/page/208 208] | url =https://archive.org/details/heyholetsgo00ever/page/208 }} Richie's composition, "Somebody Put Something in My Drink", remained a staple in the Ramones set list until their last show in 1996 and was included in the album Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits.{{cite book|last =Ramone | first =Johnny | title = Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone | publisher = Abrams| year =2012| isbn =978-0810996601 |page = 133 }} The eight-song bonus disc, The Ramones Smash You: Live '85, is also named after Richie's composition "Smash You".

The first album the Ramones recorded with Richie was Too Tough to Die in 1984, with Tommy Erdelyi and Ed Stasium returning as producers. The album marked a shift to something like the band's original sound. In the description of Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the "rhythms are back up to jackhammer speed and the songs are down to short, terse statements."{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r16126|pure_url=yes}}|title=Too Tough to Die Review|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|website=Allmusic|access-date=July 31, 2011}}

The band's main release of 1985 was the British single "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg"; though it was available in the United States only as an import, it was played widely on American college radio.{{cite news | author = Jaffee, Larry| title = Disc Spells Hit Time for Bonzo|page=10| work = Mother Jones| date = November–December 1985}} The song was written, primarily by Joey, in protest of Ronald Reagan's visit to a German military cemetery, which included graves of Waffen SS soldiers.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r16127|pure_url=yes}}|title=Animal Boy Review|last=Rivadavia|first=Eduardo |website=Allmusic|access-date=November 6, 2009}} Retitled "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)", the song appeared on the band's ninth studio album, Animal Boy (1986). Produced by Jean Beauvoir, formerly a member of the Plasmatics, the album was characterized by a Rolling Stone reviewer as "nonstop primal fuzz pop".{{cite magazine|author=Fricke, David |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theramones/albums/album/323069/review/5941801/animal_boy |title=The Ramones: Animal Boy |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=July 17, 1986 |access-date=November 5, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223112323/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theramones/albums/album/323069/review/5941801/animal_boy |archive-date=February 23, 2009 }} Making it his pick for "album of the week", New York Times critic Jon Pareles wrote that the Ramones "speak up for outcasts and disturbed individuals".Quoted in Bessman (1993), p. 136.

The following year the band recorded their last album with Richie, Halfway to Sanity. Richie left in August 1987 after financial conflicts with Johnny that centered around him being refused a small percentage of the merchandising money, which had been requested based on his tenure with the band and their use of his name and image.From the film End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones{{Citation |title=Richie Ramone & Eric Blair Talk Ramones & New Book 2018 | date=June 22, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gytQXEWfOqM |language=en |access-date=2022-07-16}} Richie was replaced by Clem Burke from Blondie, which was disbanded at the time. According to Johnny, the performances with Burke—who adopted the name Elvis Ramone—were a disaster. He was fired after two performances (August 28 and 29, 1987) because his drumming could not keep up with the rest of the band. In September, Marky, now clean and sober, returned to the band.

In December 1988, the Ramones recorded material for their eleventh studio album, and what was originally intended to be a "comeback" for the band,{{cite news|url=http://www.joelgausten.com/2011/04/the-ramones-brain-drain-untold-story.html|website=joelgausten.com|title=The Ramones' Brain Drain: The Untold Story|access-date=January 23, 2021}}{{cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-ramones-albums-164624/brain-drain-164430/|magazine=Rolling Stone|title=Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Ramones Albums|access-date=January 23, 2021}} Brain Drain was co-produced by Beauvoir, Rey, and Bill Laswell. However, the bass parts were done by Daniel Rey and the Dictators' Andy Shernoff. Dee Dee Ramone would only record the additional vocals on the album citing that members of the band (including himself) were going through personal troubles and changes to the point where he did not want to be in the band anymore. Although it received mixed reviews upon its release in May 1989, the album included the band's highest-charting hit in the US, "Pet Sematary".{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-ramones/chart-history/mrt/|title=Ramones Chart History: Alternative Airplay|magazine=Billboard|access-date=January 23, 2021}}

Despite not wanting to be in the band anymore, Dee Dee (who was sober by this point) was present for the world tour for Brain Drain and played his last show with the Ramones on July 5, 1989, at One Step Beyond in Santa Clara.{{cite web|url=https://www.metroactive.com/features/columns/Silicon-Alleys-Ramones-Performances.html|title=Silicon Alleys: Club Owner Recalls the Fights That Fueled the Ramones' Performances|work=Metro Silicon Valley|date=July 3, 2019|access-date=January 23, 2021}} He was replaced by Christopher Joseph Ward (C. J. Ramone), who performed with the band until it disbanded. Dee Dee initially pursued a brief career as a rapper under the name Dee Dee King. He quickly returned to punk rock and formed several bands, in much the same vein as the Ramones. He also continued to write songs for the Ramones, but never rejoined the band.{{cite web |author1=D'Angelo, Joe |author2=Gideon Yago |name-list-style=amp |title=Dee Dee Ramone Found Dead In Los Angeles |publisher=MTV News |date=June 6, 2002 |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1455048/20020606/ramones.jhtml |access-date=November 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090308021431/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1455048/20020606/ramones.jhtml |archive-date=March 8, 2009 |url-status=dead }}

The band fulfilled their contract with Sire Records in 1991 after being on the label for over a decade and a half, ending with the release of Loco Live. After leaving Sire Records, Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion offered to sign the band to his label Epitaph Records, even traveling to a concert in Amsterdam and begging Joey and Johnny. Meanwhile, Stormy Shepard from Leave Home Bookings (who was booking then-up-and-coming bands like Rancid and the Offspring) negotiated with the Ramones: "I'll put you on tour with these bands that are huge now. They're your fans; you can do whatever you want. You'll be playing in front of kids who like this style of music." At the same time, the band's manager, Gary Kurfurst had just worked out a deal where he was going to get his own record label, Radioactive Records. When C. J. Ramone heard Johnny talking about signing to Kurfirst's label, he questioned: "Johnny, you've run this band for years. You carried it all yourself. I don't understand how you don't see the conflict of interest in signing to your manager's label. Just in terms of business, I don't understand how you don't see that. You're really throwing away the last few years of your career. Those Epitaph guys grew up listening to you. They will do anything to give you the business success you never had. Your manager will do the same thing he always has. He's going to throw his stuff out there. You're going to break through without anyone's support and you're going to face the rest of your career the way it's been up until now.", but Johnny replied: "When you have as many years in the business as I do, then you can make the decisions.".

By Johnny's decision, the group ended up signing a new contract with Radioactive Records at the end of that year, the Ramones were soon able to start on sessions for what would become Mondo Bizarro (1992),{{Cite web |last=Punknews.org |title=Interviews: CJ Ramone |url=https://www.punknews.org/article/59199/interviews-cj-ramone |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=www.punknews.org |date=October 22, 2015 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=CJ Ramone interview |url=http://markprindle.com/cjramone-i.htm |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=markprindle.com}}{{Cite web |title='Mondo Bizarro': How Ramones Returned Refreshed For The 90s |url=http://thisisdig-com.nds.acquia-psi.com/feature/mondo-bizarro-ramones-album/ |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=Dig! |language=en-US |archive-date=December 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226184656/http://thisisdig-com.nds.acquia-psi.com/feature/mondo-bizarro-ramones-album/ |url-status=dead }} which saw them reunited with producer Ed Stasium.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r59309|pure_url=yes}}|title=Overview Mondo Bizarro|last=Rivadavia|first=Eduardo |website=Allmusic|access-date=November 6, 2009}} Anticipated as a "comeback" for the band after years of decline in popularity,{{cite news|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1995-07-05-9507030241-story.html|website=The Buffalo News|title=ASLEEP AT THE TOP ZZ TOP PLAYS IT SAFE -- AND STALE|access-date=May 26, 2021}}{{cite news|url=https://buffalonews.com/news/asleep-at-the-top-zz-top-plays-it-safe----and-stale/article_f649ae49-89ca-5fd5-b32a-f9bd932c297d.html|website=Sun-Sentinel|title=ADIOS, RAMONES?|access-date=May 26, 2021}} the album was certified Gold in Brazil after selling 100,000 copies, being the first Gold certification the Ramones were ever awarded,{{Cite web |url=http://pro-musicabr.org.br/home/certificados/?busca_artista=Ramones |title=Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos – ABPD |access-date=April 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412084202/http://pro-musicabr.org.br/home/certificados/?busca_artista=Ramones |archive-date=April 12, 2018 |url-status=live }}Marcel Plasse, [http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1994/4/25/folhateen/33.html "RAMONES"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202094358/http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1994/4/25/folhateen/33.html |date=February 2, 2017 }}, Folha de São Paulo{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLThZI2s7yE |title=Award footage by MTV Brasil |website=YouTube |access-date=April 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504214423/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLThZI2s7yE |archive-date=May 4, 2014 |url-status=live }} while its lead single "Poison Heart" was another top ten hit in the US for the band. Acid Eaters, consisting entirely of cover songs, came out in 1993.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r191418|pure_url=yes}}|title=Overview Acid Eaters|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas |website=Allmusic|access-date=November 6, 2009}} That same year, the Ramones were featured in the animated television series The Simpsons, providing music and voices for animated versions of themselves in the episode "Rosebud".{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/episodeguide/season5/page3.shtml|title=The Simpsons "Rosebud"|publisher=BBC|access-date=November 3, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100405005818/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/episodeguide/season5/page3.shtml|archive-date=April 5, 2010|url-status=live}} Executive producer David Mirkin described the Ramones as "gigantic, obsessive Simpsons fans."Archer, Wes. (2004). DVD Commentary for "Rosebud", in The Simpsons: The Complete Fifth Season [DVD]. 20th Century Fox. Marky later called their appearance "a career highlight".{{cite news |title=They've done it their way \ Can't accuse the ramones of being slaves to fashion |date=1993-11-12 |newspaper=The Virginian-Pilot |first=Sue |last=Smallwood}}

In 1995, the Ramones released their fourteenth and final studio album ¡Adios Amigos! and announced that they would be disbanding the following year.{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AsEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Adios+Amigos%22+Billboard&pg=PA12|title=Looks Like 'Adios Amigos' For Ramones|last=Newman|first=Melinda|date=May 27, 1995|magazine=Billboard|page=12|access-date=February 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528133338/http://books.google.com/books?id=1AsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&dq=%22Adios+Amigos%22+Billboard&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22Adios%20Amigos%22%20Billboard&f=false|archive-date=May 28, 2013|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r218363|pure_url=yes}}|title=Overview ¡Adios Amigos!|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas |website=Allmusic|access-date=November 6, 2009}} Its sales were unremarkable, garnering it just two weeks on the lower end of the Billboard chart.{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=ramones|chart=all}}|title=Chart History ¡Adios Amigos!|magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 6, 2009}} The band spent late 1995 on what was promoted as a farewell tour. However, they accepted an offer to appear in the sixth Lollapalooza festival, which toured around the United States during the following summer.{{cite web|url=http://www.ink19.com/issues_F/98_05/ink_spots/marky_ramone_nf.html|title=Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! Marky Ramone|last=Beowülf|first=David Lee|publisher=Ink 19|access-date=November 6, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621010915/http://www.ink19.com/issues_F/98_05/ink_spots/marky_ramone_nf.html|archive-date=June 21, 2009|url-status=live}} After the Lollapalooza tour's conclusion, the Ramones played their final show on August 6, 1996, at the Palace in Hollywood. A recording of the concert was later released on video and CD as We're Outta Here!. In addition to a reappearance by Dee Dee, the show featured several guests including Motörhead's Lemmy, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Ben Shepherd, and Rancid's Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen.Schinder (2007), pp. 559–560.

On July 20, 1999, Dee Dee, Johnny, Joey, Tommy, Marky, and C. J. appeared together at the Virgin Megastore in New York City for an autograph signing. This was the last occasion on which the original four members of the group appeared together. Joey and Marky, who had been involved in a feud, buried the hatchet and made up on live radio on the Howard Stern Show that same year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmrZsruBAs| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201071008/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmrZsruBAs&gl=US&hl=en| archive-date=2012-12-01|title=YouTube|website=YouTube}} Joey, who had been diagnosed with lymphoma in 1995, died of the illness in New York on April 15, 2001.Schinder (2007), p. 560. Tommy, Richie and C. J. were the only former bandmates to attend his funeral.{{Cite web |last=NME |date=2001-04-18 |title=JOEY RAMONE LAID TO REST |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/ramones-64-1395426 |access-date=2022-07-17 |website=NME |language=en-GB}}{{Cite book |last=Bowe |first=Brian J. |title=The Ramones |publisher=Enslow Publishing, LLC |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-9785-0410-3 |location=New York |pages=82 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Features |first=Dan Alleva |title=Richie Ramone—Too Tough to Die |url=https://www.theaquarian.com/2019/09/11/richie-ramone-too-tough-to-die/ |access-date=2022-07-17 |website=The Aquarian |date=September 11, 2019 |language=en-US}} Joey and Richie had a close friendship during their time together in the band and the latter expressed sadness over not being able to reconnect with Joey before his death.{{Cite web |last=Features |first=Dan Alleva |title=Richie Ramone—Too Tough to Die |url=https://www.theaquarian.com/2019/09/11/richie-ramone-too-tough-to-die/ |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=The Aquarian |date=September 11, 2019 |language=en-US}}

On March 18, 2002, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which specifically named Dee Dee, Johnny, Joey, Tommy, and Marky. At the ceremony, the surviving inductees spoke on behalf of the band. Johnny spoke first, thanking the band's fans and blessing George W. Bush and his presidency, and America. Tommy spoke next, saying how honored the band felt, but how much it would have meant for Joey. Dee Dee humorously congratulated and thanked himself, while Marky thanked Tommy for influencing his drum style. Green Day played "Teenage Lobotomy", "Rockaway Beach", and "Blitzkrieg Bop" as a tribute, demonstrating the Ramones' continuing influence on later rock musicians. The ceremony was one of Dee Dee's last public appearances, as he was found dead on June 5, 2002, from a heroin overdose.{{cite web|author=Pareles, Jon|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E4D9143DF934A35755C0A9649C8B63|title=Dee Dee Ramone, Pioneer Punk Rocker, Dies at 50|work=The New York Times|date=June 7, 2002|access-date=November 3, 2009}}

On November 30, 2003, New York City unveiled a sign designating East 2nd Street at the corner of Bowery as Joey Ramone Place. The singer lived on East 2nd for a time, and the sign is near the former Bowery site of CBGB.{{cite news|author=Wakin, Daniel J.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/29/nyregion/hey-ho-let-s-go-downtown-to-joey-ramone-place.html|title=Hey Ho, Let's Go Downtown to Joey Ramone Place|work=The New York Times|date=November 29, 2003|access-date=May 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116111519/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/29/nyregion/hey-ho-let-s-go-downtown-to-joey-ramone-place.html|archive-date=January 16, 2010|url-status=live}} The documentary film End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones came out in 2004. Johnny, who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1999, died on September 15, 2004, in Los Angeles, shortly after the film's release.{{cite news|author=Sisario, Ben|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/arts/music/16CND-RAMO.html |title=Johnny Ramone, Signal Guitarist for the Ramones, Dies at 55|work=The New York Times|date=September 16, 2004|access-date=November 3, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417114558/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/arts/music/16CND-RAMO.html |archive-date=April 17, 2009|url-status=live}} On the same day as Johnny's death, the world's first Ramones Museum opened its doors to the public. Located in Berlin, Germany, the museum features more than 300 items of memorabilia, including a pair of stage-worn jeans from Johnny, a stage-worn glove from Joey, Marky's sneakers, and C. J.'s stage-worn bass strap.{{cite web|url=http://www.ramonesmuseum.com/|title=Ramones Museum|access-date=November 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209235504/http://ramonesmuseum.com/|archive-date=February 9, 2009|url-status=live}} On October 8, 2004, Tommy Ramone, C. J. Ramone, Clem Burke, and Daniel Rey performed in the "Ramones Beat on Cancer" concert.{{Cite web|title=RAMONES: BE WELL: RAMONES BEAT ON CANCER -SHOW|url=https://www.ramonesheaven.com/picture/MaggieRamo30NYC1.html|access-date=2021-12-19|website=www.ramonesheaven.com}}

The Ramones were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.limusichalloffame.org/inductees/07inductees.html |publisher=Long Island Music Hall of Fame |title=Inductees |access-date=November 5, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217232729/http://www.limusichalloffame.org/inductees/07inductees.html |archive-date=February 17, 2007 }} That October saw the release of a DVD set containing concert footage of the band: It's Alive 1974–1996 includes 118 songs from 33 performances over the span of the group's career.{{cite web|url=http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=25952_0_2_0_C|title=DVD Set To Be Released Featuring over 4 Hours of the Ramones Live at Work|publisher=Side-line.com|access-date=November 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202092347/http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=25952_0_2_0_C|archive-date=December 2, 2008|url-status=live}} In February 2011 the group was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Drummers Tommy, Marky, and Richie attended the ceremony. Marky declared, "This is amazing. I never expected this. I'm sure Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee would never have expected this." Richie noted that it was the first time ever that all three drummers were under the same roof, and mused that he couldn't "help thinking that [Joey] is watching us right now with a little smile on his face behind his rose-colored glasses." On April 30, 2014, their debut album, Ramones, became certified Gold by the Recording Industry of America after selling 500,000 copies, 38 years after its release.

Arturo Vega, creative director from their formation in 1974 until their disbanding in 1996 and often considered the fifth Ramone, died of cancer on June 8, 2013, at the age of 65.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/music/arturo-vega-spokesman-and-designer-for-the-ramones-dies-at-65.html|title=Arturo Vega, Shepherd for the Ramones, Dies at 65|last=Yardley|first=William|date=2013-06-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-25|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025164540/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/music/arturo-vega-spokesman-and-designer-for-the-ramones-dies-at-65.html|archive-date=October 25, 2018|url-status=live}} The final original member, Tommy Ramone, died on July 11, 2014, after a battle with bile duct cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/12/tommy-ramone-dies-aged-65 |title=Tommy Ramone dies aged 62 |work=The Guardian |date=July 12, 2014 |access-date=July 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712075737/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/12/tommy-ramone-dies-aged-65 |archive-date=July 12, 2014 |url-status=live }} On October 30, 2016, the band had a street in Queens, New York named for them. As of that date, the intersection of 67th Avenue and 110th Street in front of the main entrance of Forest Hills High School was officially named The Ramones Way.{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/30/499988989/the-ramones-way-street-at-rockers-high-school-is-renamed-for-band |title=The Ramones Way: Street At Rockers' High School Is Renamed For Band |work=NPR |date=October 30, 2016 |access-date=November 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103061526/http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/30/499988989/the-ramones-way-street-at-rockers-high-school-is-renamed-for-band |archive-date=November 3, 2016 |url-status=live |last1=Chappell |first1=Bill }} On April 15, 2021, the 20th anniversary of Joey Ramone's death, it was announced that Pete Davidson would portray Ramone in the upcoming Netflix biopic I Slept with Joey Ramone which is based on the 2009 memoir of the same name written by Ramone's brother Mickey Leigh. Leigh will serve as an executive producer with a script written by Davidson and director Jason Orley.{{cite web| url=https://consequence.net/2021/04/pete-davidson-joey-ramone-netflix-biopic/ |title=Pete Davidson to Play Joey Ramone in Netflix Biopic I Slept With Joey Ramone |website= consequence.net |date=April 15, 2021 |access-date=April 15, 2021}}

Elvis Ramone (who briefly replaced Richie in the Ramones in 1987) died on April 6, 2025 after a battle with cancer, making him the first non-original member of the band to die.{{Cite magazine |author1=Kory Grow |author2=Jason Newman |date=April 7, 2025 |title=Drummer Clem Burke, the 'Heartbeat of Blondie,' Dead at 70 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/clem-burke-blondie-drummer-dead-obituary-1235311703/ |access-date=May 11, 2025 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |first=Anna |last=Kaufman |date=April 7, 2025 |title=Clem Burke dead: Blondie drummer was 70 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/04/07/clem-burke-blondie-death-band-drummer/82973772007/ |access-date=May 11, 2025 |website=USA Today |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |first=Michael |last=Gallucci |date=April 7, 2025 |title=Blondie Drummer Clem Burke Has Died |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/clem-burke-dead/ |access-date=May 11, 2025 |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |language=en-US}}

Tension between Joey and Johnny colored much of the Ramones' career. The pair were politically antagonistic, with Joey being a liberal and Johnny a conservative.{{Cite journal |last=Gill |first=Kamen |title=Ramones Interview |url=https://archive.org/details/V.O.M.Number2BritishColumbiaCanada/page/n3/mode/1up |journal=V.O.M. |publication-place=Surrey, British Columbia, Canada |publication-date=1985 |issue=2 |pages=4–5 |via=Internet Archive}} Their personalities also clashed: Johnny, who spent two years in military school, lived by a strict code of self-discipline,Bessman (1993), pp. 18, 82. while Joey struggled with obsessive–compulsive disorder and alcoholism.{{cite web|author=Leland, John| author-link=John Leland (journalist) | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E0DA1330F931A15757C0A9679C8B63 |title=Tribute: A Star of Anti-Charisma, Joey Ramone Made Geeks Chic|work=The New York Times|date=April 22, 2001|access-date=November 5, 2009}}{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1316313/Joey-Ramone.html |title=Joey Ramone |newspaper=Telegraph |access-date=April 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715042700/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1316313/Joey-Ramone.html |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |url-status=live }} In the early 1980s, Linda Danielle began a relationship with Johnny after having already been romantically involved with Joey, who had reportedly accused Johnny of "stealing" his girlfriend. This incident is believed to have been the inspiration behind "The KKK Took My Baby Away".Leigh, Mickey. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-XEue9aYEiMC&dq=%22KKK+Took+My+Baby+Away%22&pg=PA216 I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir], p. 216 (2009) Consequently, despite their continued professional relationship, Joey and Johnny had become aloof from each other. Johnny did not contact Joey before his death, although he said that he was depressed for "the whole week" after his passing.

Dee Dee's bipolar disorder and repeated relapses into drug addiction also caused significant strains.Melnick and Meyer (2003). Tommy would also leave the band after being "physically threatened by Johnny, treated with contempt by Dee Dee, and all but ignored by Joey."Beeber (2006), p. 121. As new members joined over the years, disbursement and the band's image frequently became matters of serious dispute.

{{cite web|author=St. Thomas, Maggie|url=http://www.concertlivewire.com/interviews/ramonecj.htm|title=The Ramones Confidentials—Part III (Interview with C.J. Ramone)|publisher=Livewire|date=December 3, 2001|access-date=November 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091014161129/http://www.concertlivewire.com/interviews/ramonecj.htm|archive-date=October 14, 2009|url-status=live}}

The tensions among the group members were not kept secret from the public as was heard on the Howard Stern radio show in 1997, where during the interview Marky and Joey got into a fight about their respective drinking habits.Leigh and McNeil (2009), pp. 343–344.

A year after the Ramones' breakup, Marky Ramone made disparaging remarks against C. J. in the press, calling him a "bigot",{{cite news|author=Coozer, Adam|url=https://www.readjunk.com/interviews/marky-ramone/|title=Hey Ho, Let's Go Downtown to Joey Ramone Place|work=Read Junk|date=November 30, 1998|access-date=March 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327000526/https://www.readjunk.com/interviews/marky-ramone/|archive-date=March 27, 2019|url-status=live}} a statement he would reiterate a decade later.{{cite news|author=Prindle, Mark|url=http://www.markprindle.com/markyramone-i.htm|title=Marky Ramone - 2008|work=Mark's Record Reviews|access-date=March 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011010825/http://www.markprindle.com/markyramone-i.htm|archive-date=October 11, 2018|url-status=live}} C. J. would later respond that he was unsure as to why Marky would make negative comments against him in the press, though he denied that it had anything to do with his marrying Marky's niece. He also denied being a bigot.{{cite news|author=Prindle, Mark|url=http://www.markprindle.com/cjramone-i.htm|title=CJ Ramone - 2009|work=Mark's Record Reviews|access-date=March 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927034519/http://www.markprindle.com/cjramone-i.htm|archive-date=September 27, 2018|url-status=live}} Many years later, C. J. lamented that despite being the two surviving members of arguably the Ramones' most commercially successful era, and despite reaching out a few times to join him on stage, he and Marky were no longer in contact.{{cite news|author=Sigler, Gabriel|url=https://badfeelingmag.com/2017/05/12/%EF%BB%BFcj-ramone-i-wanted-to-bring-back-what-the-ramones-lost-over-the-years/|title=CJ Ramone: 'I wanted to bring back what the Ramones lost over the years'|work=Bad Feeling Magazine|date=May 12, 2017|access-date=March 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327091558/https://badfeelingmag.com/2017/05/12/%EF%BB%BFcj-ramone-i-wanted-to-bring-back-what-the-ramones-lost-over-the-years/|archive-date=March 27, 2019|url-status=live}}

The Ramones' loud, fast, straightforward musical style was influenced by pop music that the band members grew up listening to in the 1950s and 1960s, including classic rock groups such as Buddy Holly and the Crickets, the Beach Boys, the Who, the Beatles, the Kinks, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Doors and Creedence Clearwater Revival; bubblegum acts like the 1910 Fruitgum Company and Ohio Express; and girl groups such as the Ronettes and the Shangri-Las. They also drew on the harder rock sound of the MC5, Black Sabbath,{{cite book |last= Millard|first= André |date= 2004|title= The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon |publisher= JHU Press|page= 206|isbn= 0-8018-7862-4}} the Stooges and the New York Dolls, now known as seminal protopunk bands.Bessman (1993), pp. 17–18; {{cite magazine| author =Morris, Chris| title =Joey Ramone, Punk's First Icon, Dies| magazine =Billboard| date =April 29, 2001| url =http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4638922-1.html| access-date =November 5, 2009| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20090104141935/http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4638922-1.html| archive-date =January 4, 2009| url-status =live}} {{cite news| title = The Musical Misfits| publisher = BBC| date = April 16, 2001| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1279856.stm| access-date = November 5, 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090115112303/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1279856.stm| archive-date = January 15, 2009| url-status = live}} The Ramones' style was in part a reaction against the heavily produced, often bombastic music that dominated the pop charts in the 1970s. "We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard," Joey once explained. "In 1974 everything was tenth-generation Elton John, or overproduced, or just junk. Everything was long jams, long guitar solos ... . We missed music like it used to be."Edelstein and McDonough (1990), p. 178. Ira Robbins and Scott Isler of Trouser Press describe the result:

With just four chords and one manic tempo, New York's Ramones blasted open the clogged arteries of mid-'70s rock, reanimating the music. Their genius was to recapture the short/simple aesthetic from which pop had strayed, adding a caustic sense of trash-culture humor and minimalist rhythm guitar sound.Isler and Robbins (1991), p. 532.

As leaders in the punk rock scene, the Ramones' music is strongly identified with that label. It has been noted that their recordings also helped the subgenre pop-punk to develop.{{cite web |url=http://diffuser.fm/best-pop-punk-songs/ |title=10 Best Pop-Punk Songs |work=Diffuser.fm |last=Robinson |first=Joe |date=January 23, 2013 |access-date=January 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112150150/http://diffuser.fm/best-pop-punk-songs/ |archive-date=January 12, 2019 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-1978-kicked-off-the-explosion-of-pop-punk/ |title=How 1978 Kicked Off the Explosion of Pop-Punk |work=Noisey |last=Heller |first=Jason |date=February 26, 2018 |access-date=January 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112150008/https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/mb53w3/how-1978-kicked-off-the-explosion-of-pop-punk |archive-date=January 12, 2019 |url-status=live }}{{cite web| title =Ramones Discography LPs| publisher =punk77.co.uk| url =http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/ramonesdiscographylps.htm| access-date =November 5, 2009| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20081221234244/http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/ramonesdiscographylps.htm| archive-date =December 21, 2008| url-status =live}} {{cite web| title =End of the Century: The Ramones| publisher =PBS| url =https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/endofthecentury/legacy.html| access-date =November 5, 2009| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100506053944/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/endofthecentury/legacy.html| archive-date =May 6, 2010| url-status =live}} Some have described certain Ramones songs as power pop.{{cite web |last1=Zivkovic |first1=Ljubinko |title=Power Pop: The Genre That Refuses To Go Away |url=https://medium.com/1ntune/power-pop-the-genre-that-refuses-to-go-away-fe9142bc9967 |website=Medium |access-date=May 23, 2022 |date=December 31, 2021}}{{cite web |title=The Ramones |url=https://powerpophalloffame.com/portfolio-posts/the-ramones/ |website=Power Pop Hall of Fame |access-date=May 23, 2022}}{{cite web| author =Holmstrom, John| title =Happy Family Interviews| publisher =RamonesMania.com| date =December 2004| url =http://www.ramonesmania.com/ramones-interviews.html| access-date =November 5, 2009| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20090525035145/http://ramonesmania.com/ramones-interviews.html| archive-date =May 25, 2009| url-status =live}} Starting in the 1980s, the band sometimes veered into hardcore punk territory, as can be heard on albums such as Too Tough to Die.

On stage, the band adopted a focused approach directly intended to increase the audience's concert experience. Johnny's instructions to C. J. when preparing for his first live performances with the group were to play facing the audience, to stand with the bass slung low between spread legs, and to walk forward to the front of stage at the same time as he did. Johnny was not a fan of guitarists who performed facing their drummer, amplifier, or other band members.Fricke, David (1999). Hey Ho Let's Go!: The Anthology liner notes. Rhino Entertainment, R2 75817.

The Ramones' art and visual imagery complemented the themes of their music and performance. The members adopted a uniform look of long hair, leather jackets, T-shirts, torn jeans, and sneakers. This fashion emphasized minimalism—a powerful influence on the New York punk scene of the 1970s—and reflected the band's short, simple songs.Colegrave and Sullivan (2001), p. 67. Tommy Ramone recalled that, musically and visually, "We were influenced by comic books, movies, the Andy Warhol scene, and avant-garde films. I was a big Mad magazine fan myself."

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The band's logo was created by New York City artist Arturo Vega, with guidance from the Ramones. Vega, a longtime friend, had allowed Joey and Dee Dee to move into his loft.McNeil and McCain (1996), p. 211. He produced the band's T-shirts—their main source of income—basing most of the images on a black-and-white self-portrait photograph he had taken of his American bald eagle belt buckle, which appeared on the back sleeve of the Ramones' first album.Bessman (1993), p. 40. He was inspired to create the band's logo after a trip to Washington, D.C.:

I saw them as the ultimate all-American band. To me, they reflected the American character in general—an almost childish innocent aggression .... I thought, "The Great Seal of the President of the United States" would be perfect for the Ramones, with the eagle holding arrows—to symbolize strength and the aggression that would be used against whomever dares to attack us—and an olive branch, offered to those who want to be friendly. But we decided to change it a little bit. Instead of the olive branch, we had an apple tree branch, since the Ramones were American as apple pie. And since Johnny was such a baseball fanatic, we had the eagle hold a baseball bat instead of the [Great Seal]'s arrows.

The scroll in the eagle's beak originally read "Look out below", but this was soon changed to "Hey ho let's go" after the opening lyrics of the band's first single, "Blitzkrieg Bop". The arrowheads on the shield came from a design on a polyester shirt Vega had bought. "Ramones" was spelled out in block capitals above the logo using plastic stick-on letters. Where the presidential emblem read "Seal of the President of the United States" clockwise in the border around the eagle, Vega placed the pseudonyms of the band members: Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, and Tommy. Over the years the names in the border would change as the band's line-up fluctuated.{{cite web| author =Vega, Arturo| title =My Ramones World| publisher =RamonesWorld.com| url =http://www.ramonesworld.com/unofficial/unofficial.html| access-date =November 5, 2009| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20101128203602/http://ramonesworld.com/unofficial/unofficial.html| archive-date =November 28, 2010| url-status =dead| df =mdy-all}}

"It's the American presidential seal—anyone can use it," said Marky Ramone of the logo's ubiquity. "We share the royalties on the t-shirt and on the merchandise. A lot of the kids wearing that shirt might not even have heard of the Ramones' music. I guess if you have the shirt, your curiosity might bring you to buy the music. Whatever, it is a strange phenomenon."Fortnam, Ian: "Heavy load"; Classic Rock #216, November 2015, p138

The Ramones had a broad and lasting influence on the development of popular music. Music historian Jon Savage writes of their debut album that "it remains one of the few records that changed pop forever."Savage (1992), p. 553. As described by AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, "The band's first four albums set the blueprint for punk, especially American punk and hardcore, for the next two decades."{{cite web|author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5223|pure_url=yes}}|title=The Ramones: Biography|website=Allmusic|access-date=November 5, 2009}} Trouser Press{{'s}} Robbins and Isler similarly wrote that the Ramones "not only spearheaded the original new wave/punk movement, but also drew the blueprint for subsequent hardcore punk bands". Punk journalist Phil Strongman writes, "In purely musical terms, the Ramones, in attempting to re-create the excitement of pre-Dolby rock, were to cast a huge shadow—they had fused a blueprint for much of the indie future." Writing for Slate in 2001, Douglas Wolk described the Ramones as "easily the most influential group of the last 30 years."{{cite magazine|author=Wolk, Douglas|url=http://www.slate.com/id/104580/|title=I Wanna Be Joey|magazine=Slate|date=April 18, 2001|access-date=November 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131093321/http://www.slate.com/id/104580/|archive-date=January 31, 2011|url-status=live}}

Locally, several musicians who would play in New York hardcore bands cite the Ramones as an influence. These include members of the Beastie Boys, Gorilla Biscuits, the Misfits, and the Mob.{{Cite web|url=https://dscvrd.co/noise/under-the-influence-walter-schreifels|title=Noise|website=dscvrd.co}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/danzig-the-story-behind-their-debut-album|title=Danzig: the debut album that turned a cult punk icon into a goth-metal superstar|first=Malcolm|last=Domepublished|date=November 3, 2016|website=louder}}{{Cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/marky-ramone-misfits-doyle-recall-near-brawl-joey-ramone-exclusive-video/|title=Marky Ramone + Misfits' Doyle on Near-Brawl With Joey Ramone|first=Graham|last=Hartmann|date=January 29, 2015|website=Loudwire}}{{Cite web|url=https://rettman.substack.com/p/from-the-nyhc-archives-jack-flanagan|title=FROM THE NYHC ARCHIVES: Jack Flanagan (The Mob)|first=Tony|last=Rettman|date=December 9, 2020}} Roger Miret of Agnostic Front has stated that Leave Home was the first album he bought with his own money.{{Cite web|url=https://www.noecho.net/record-collectors/record-collector-roger-miret-agnostic-front|title=Record Collector: Roger Miret (Agnostic Front)|date=February 25, 2019|website=www.noecho.net}}

The Ramones' debut album had an outsized effect relative to its modest sales, particularly in the UK. According to Generation X bassist Tony James, "Everybody went up three gears the day they got that first Ramones album. Punk rock—that rama-lama super fast stuff—is totally down to the Ramones. Bands were just playing in an MC5 groove until then."Quoted in Strongman (2008), p. 111. The Ramones' two July 1976 shows, like their debut album, are seen as having a significant impact on the style of many of the newly formed British punk acts—as one observer put it, "instantly nearly every band speeded up".Robb (2006), p. 198. See also p. 201 for a similar report. The Ramones' first British concert, at London's Roundhouse music venue, was held on July 4, 1976, the United States Bicentennial.{{cite web |title = In Pictures: Ramones at the roundhouse |website = 50.roundhouse.org.uk |url = https://50.roundhouse.org.uk/content-items/ramones-at-the-roundhouse |access-date = November 23, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161124091835/https://50.roundhouse.org.uk/content-items/ramones-at-the-roundhouse |archive-date = November 24, 2016 |url-status = live }} The Sex Pistols were playing in Sheffield that evening, supported by the Clash, making their public debut. The next night, members of both bands attended the Ramones' gig at the Dingwall's club. Ramones manager Danny Fields recalls a conversation between Johnny Ramone and Clash bassist Paul Simonon (which he mislocates at the Roundhouse): "Johnny asked him, 'What do you do? Are you in a band?' Paul said, 'Well, we just rehearse. We call ourselves the Clash but we're not good enough.' Johnny said, 'Wait till you see us—we stink, we're lousy, we can't play. Just get out there and do it.'"Colegrave and Sullivan (2005), p. 234. Another band whose members saw the Ramones perform, the Damned, played their first show two days later. Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 has said that he considers the Ramones his band's "only blueprint".{{cite web |author1=Adam White |title=Sham 69's Jimmy Pursey speaks out on former bandmates' North American tour |url=https://www.punknews.org/article/25028/sham-69s-jimmy-pursey-speaks-out-on-former-bandmates-north-american-tour |website=Punknews.org |date=2007}} The central fanzine of the early UK punk scene, Sniffin' Glue, was named after the song "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", which appeared on the debut LP.{{cite web| author =Grohl, Dave| title =Punk Fiction| date =December 1981| publisher =Foo Archive/Radio 1| url =http://www.fooarchive.com/xstatic/pf96.htm| access-date =November 5, 2009| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20091206040622/http://www.fooarchive.com/xstatic/pf96.htm| archive-date =December 6, 2009| url-status =live}}

Ramones concerts and recordings influenced many musicians central to the development of California punk, including Greg Ginn of Black Flag,{{cite web| author =Sinclair, Mick| title =Black Flag| work =Sounds| date =December 1981| publisher =Mick Sinclair Archives| url =http://micksinclair.com/sounds/bf.html| access-date =November 5, 2009| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100314065752/http://micksinclair.com/sounds/bf.html| archive-date =March 14, 2010| url-status =live}} Jello Biafra and East Bay Ray of the Dead Kennedys,Bayles (1996), p. 314.{{Cite web |last=Tauber |first=Dani |date=June 18, 2014 |title=An Interview with The Dead Kennedys: The Great American Rip-Off |url=https://www.theaquarian.com/2014/06/18/an-interview-with-the-dead-kennedys-the-great-american-rip-off/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923032319/https://www.theaquarian.com/2014/06/18/an-interview-with-the-dead-kennedys-the-great-american-rip-off/ |archive-date=September 23, 2023 |access-date=August 31, 2024 |website=The Aquarian Weekly |quote="Everyone’s always surprised by my influences," [East Bay Ray] laughs. "I really was into The Buzzcocks and The Ramones and The Undertones."}} Mike Ness of Social Distortion,{{cite web| author =Appleford, Steve| title =Mike Ness| work =LA CityBeat| date=October 6, 2005| url =http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/mike_ness/2697/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617072817/http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/mike_ness/2697/|archive-date=June 17, 2009| url-status =usurped| access-date=February 22, 2012}} Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion,{{cite web| author = Lyxzén, Dennis| title = Bad Religion's Brett Gurewitz Exclusively Interviewed by (International) Noise Conspiracy's Dennis Lyxzén: Back To The Beginning| work = Exclaim| date = June 2004| url = http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=59&csid2=779&fid1=3034| access-date = November 5, 2009| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080516125309/http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/multiarticlesub.aspx?csid1=59&csid2=779&fid1=3034| archive-date = May 16, 2008| df = mdy-all}} and members of the Descendents.{{cite web| title =Descendents F.A.Q.| publisher =DescendentsOnline.com [official band site]| url =http://www.descendentsonline.com/faq/faq_body.html| access-date =November 5, 2009| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20081203223728/http://www.descendentsonline.com/faq/faq_body.html| archive-date =December 3, 2008| df =mdy-all}} {{cite web| author =Rashidi, Waleed| title =Descendents| work =Mean Street| year =2002| url =http://meanstreet.com/article.php?article_id=224&issue_id=50| access-date =November 5, 2009| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20061027072006/http://www.meanstreet.com/article.php?article_id=224&issue_id=50| archive-date =October 27, 2006| df =mdy-all}}

Canada's first major punk scenes—in Toronto and in British Columbia's Victoria and Vancouver—were also heavily influenced by the Ramones.Keithley (2004), pp. 30, 63; {{cite web| author =Mercer, Laurie | title =Tom Holliston Biography|website=Allmusic|url ={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p463857|pure_url=yes}}| access-date=November 5, 2009}} In the late 1970s, many bands emerged with musical styles deeply indebted to the band's. There were the Lurkers from England,Spicer (2003), p. 349. the Undertones from Ireland,{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/weekly/jamside960729.html|title=Teenage Kicks|author=McNett, Gavin|work=Salon|access-date=November 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000410202209/http://www.salon.com/weekly/jamside960729.html|archive-date=April 10, 2000|url-status=live}} Teenage Head from Canada,{{cite web|url=http://www.thespec.com/Entertainment/article/358032|title=Teenage Head: Still Some Kinda Fun|author=Rockingham, Graham|work=Hamilton Spectator|date=April 22, 2008|access-date=November 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221023458/http://www.thespec.com/Entertainment/article/358032|archive-date=February 21, 2009|url-status=live}} and the ZerosSpitz and Mullen (2001), p. 82. and the DickiesStrongman (2008), p. 213. from southern California. The seminal hardcore band Bad Brains took its name from a Ramones song.{{cite web|author=Barry, John |title=I Against I |work=Baltimore City Paper |date=October 15, 2008 |url=http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=16871 |access-date=November 5, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004142705/http://www2.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=16871 |archive-date=October 4, 2011 }} Mission of Burma drummer Peter Prescott has highlighted the Ramones, and particularly their self-titled debut, as the foremost influence on Burma.{{Cite web |last=Jayasuriya |first=Sahan |date=September 25, 2012 |title=Mission Of Burma's Peter Prescott |url=https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2012/09/25/interview-mission-of-burmas-peter-prescott/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611100943/https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2012/09/25/interview-mission-of-burmas-peter-prescott/ |archive-date=June 11, 2021 |access-date=March 11, 2025 |website=Urban Milwaukee |quote=First and foremost, the Ramones, especially the first album. It’s just as groundbreaking as John Coltrane. In a way, you can get the Burma mentality by crossing John Coltrane with the Ramones. It’s the idea of experimentation combined with primal fury, I guess. There was a lot of other stuff in the mix, too.}}

The Riverdales emulated the sound of the Ramones throughout their career.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll |title=Overview: The Riverdales |last=Spano |first=Charles |website=Allmusic |access-date=November 6, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021119052725/http://www.allmusic.com/cg/AMG.dll |archive-date=November 19, 2002 }} Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong named his son Joey in homage to Joey Ramone, and drummer Tré Cool named his daughter Ramona.{{cite web|author=Moss, Corey|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1442906/20010417/ramone_joey.jhtml|title=Peers Praise Joey Ramone, The Man And The Musician|publisher=MTV|date=April 17, 2001|access-date=November 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100403001242/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1442906/20010417/ramone_joey.jhtml|archive-date=April 3, 2010|url-status=dead}}

The Ramones also influenced musicians associated with other genres, such as heavy metal. Their influence on metal gave birth to the punk-metal "fusion" genre of thrash. Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, one of the originators of thrash guitar, has described the importance of Johnny's rapid-fire guitar playing style to his own musical development.{{cite magazine|author=Young, Charles M. |title=Johnny's Last Stand |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=September 16, 2004 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theramones/articles/story/6485108/johnnys_last_stand |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503091838/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theramones/articles/story/6485108/johnnys_last_stand |archive-date=May 3, 2009 |access-date=February 22, 2012 |url-status=dead }} Motörhead lead singer Lemmy, a friend of the Ramones since the late 1970s, mixed the band's "Go Home Ann" in 1985. The members of Motörhead later composed the song "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." as a tribute, and Lemmy performed at the final Ramones concert in 1996.{{cite web | url=http://www.staythirstymedia.com/200707w/html/0707lemmy.html | publisher=Thirsty | date=May 14, 2007 | title=The Head Cat: Lemmy interview | author=Myers, Sarah L. | access-date=November 5, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091109031246/http://www.staythirstymedia.com/200707w/html/0707lemmy.html | archive-date=November 9, 2009 | url-status=live }} Paul Di'Anno, who sang on Iron Maiden's first two albums called the Ramones his "favorite band", and often performed Ramones material in his live shows.{{Cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/former-iron-maiden-singer-paul-dianno-flips-out-at-heckler-yelling-bruce-dickinson/|title=Former Iron Maiden Singer Paul Di'Anno Flips Out at Heckler Yelling 'Bruce Dickinson'|first=Graham|last=Hartmann|website=Loudwire.com|date=November 16, 2012 |access-date=January 23, 2020}} In the realm of alternative rock, the song "53rd & 3rd" lent its name to a British indie pop label cofounded by Stephen Pastel of the Scottish band the Pastels.

Other bands and artists that have cited the Ramones as an influence include Evan Dando of the Lemonheads,{{cite web| author =Keene, Jarret | title =Candy Man| work =Tucson Weekly| date=November 29, 2007| url =http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Music/Content?oid=oid%3A103700| access-date=November 5, 2009}} Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam,{{cite magazine | url=http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/35283-pearl-jam-explore-and-not-explode | title=Explore and Not Explode | access-date=September 3, 2007 | author=Kerr, Dave. | magazine=The Skinny | date=May 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930220619/http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/35283-pearl-jam-explore-and-not-explode | archive-date=September 30, 2008 | url-status=live }} (who introduced the band members at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction), the Strokes,Roach (2003), pp. 60–63. Parquet Courts,{{Cite web |last=Noyd |first=John |date=May 2013 |title=An Interview with Parquet Courts Lead Singer Andrew Savage |url=https://www.maximumink.com/index.php/articles/permalink/parquet_courts |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522212222/https://www.maximumink.com/index.php/articles/permalink/parquet_courts |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |access-date=January 12, 2025 |website=Max Ink |quote=I feel like we wear our influences on our sleeve. In, Light Up Gold I hear Ramones, Black Flag, Buzzcocks, The Fall, Guided By Voices, Tyvek… I think a lot of people in the indie world assume we listen to a lot of current indie rock bands, but we really don’t.}} and the Primitives.{{Cite web |last=Von Pip |first=Andy |date=May 31, 2011 |title="Don't Slow Down" – The Primitives Interview 2011 |url=https://www.thevpme.com/reviews/dont-slow-down-the-primitives-interview-2011/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130013919/https://www.thevpme.com/reviews/dont-slow-down-the-primitives-interview-2011/ |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |access-date=November 12, 2024 |website=The VPME |quote=We were influenced by all the obvious stuff really – Velvet Underground, Buzzcocks, Mary Chain, Byrds, Monkees, Ramones, Cramps, Nancy Sinatra and so on.}}

In 2000, VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock ranked the group at 17 on their list.

The band members were also individually influential. Johnny Ramone was named one of Time's "10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players" in 2003.{{cite news | url=http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1916544_1921867,00.html | title=The 10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players | last=Tyrangiel | first=Josh | date=August 24, 2009 | magazine=Time | access-date=November 14, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817212518/http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1916544_1921867,00.html | archive-date=August 17, 2009 | url-status=dead }} That same year, he was number 16 on the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list in Rolling Stone.Commando, pg122

"We think of the Ramones as a classic, iconic band," observed Gene Simmons of Kiss. "They have one gold record to their name. They never played arenas; couldn't sell them out. It was a failed band. It doesn't mean they weren't great. It means the masses didn't care."Dey, Iain: 'Kiss and sell: rock's giant cash machine', The Sunday Times, December 7, 2014, p9

The French animated series Oggy and the Cockroaches features a trio of anthropomorphic cockroaches named after three members of the band — Joey, Marky and Dee Dee.

In April 2009, Spin writer Mark Prindle observed that the Ramones had to date "inspired a jaw-dropping 48 (at least!) full-length tribute records."{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UGXLInPX86UC&q=%22a+tribute+to+tributes%22&pg=PA62 |author=Prindle, Mark |title=One Two Three Faux!: A Tribute to Tributes to the Ramones |date=April 2009 |page=63 |work=Spin |access-date=February 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528163904/http://books.google.com/books?id=UGXLInPX86UC&pg=PA62&dq=%22a+tribute+to+tributes%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=taBDT67yLuHa0QGs4KjgBw&ved=0CEsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22a%20tribute%20to%20tributes%22&f=false |archive-date=May 28, 2013 |url-status=live }} The first Ramones tribute album featuring multiple performers was released in 1991: Gabba Gabba Hey: A Tribute to the Ramones includes tracks by such acts as the Flesh Eaters, L7, Mojo Nixon, and Bad Religion.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r23203|pure_url=yes}}|title=Overview: Gabba Gabba Hey: A Tribute to the Ramones|last=Henderson|first=Alex |website=Allmusic|access-date=November 6, 2009}} In 2001, Dee Dee made a guest appearance on one track of Ramones Maniacs, a multi-artist cover of the entire Ramones Mania compilation album. The Song Ramones the Same, which came out the following year, includes performances by the Dictators, who were part of the early New York punk scene, and Wayne Kramer, guitarist for the influential protopunk band MC5. We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones, released in 2003, features performers such as Rancid, Green Day, Metallica, Kiss, the Offspring, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, and Rob Zombie (who also did the album cover artwork).{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r601637|pure_url=yes}}|title=Overview: We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones|last=Torreano|first=Bradley |website=Allmusic|access-date=November 6, 2009}} Also some other famous bands recorded tribute songs. Motörhead's Phil Campbell tells in Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone's book Ramones: Soundtrack Of Our Lives: "We did a cover of Rockaway Beach with me on backing vocals, which was quite enjoyable. When Johnny Ramone heard it, he refused to put it on the tribute album. Lemmy and I thought we did a good version."

{{cite news |first=Jari-Pekka |last=Laitio-Ramone |title=Ramones: Soundtrack Of Our Lives |url=http://www.ramonesheaven.com/kolmoskirja.html |publisher=Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone |date=May 19, 2009 |access-date=January 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224221917/http://www.ramonesheaven.com/kolmoskirja.html |archive-date=February 24, 2016 |url-status=live }}

Punk bands such as Screeching Weasel, the Vindictives, the Queers, Parasites, the Mr. T Experience, Boris the Sprinkler, Beatnik Termites, Tip Toppers, Jon Cougar Concentration Camp, and McRackins have recorded cover versions of entire Ramones albums—Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, It's Alive, Road to Ruin, End of the Century, Pleasant Dreams, Subterranean Jungle, two versions of Too Tough to Die, and Halfway to Sanity, respectively.{{cite web |url=http://www.interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=214271& |title=Kobanes – Halfway To Sanity @ Interpunk.com – The Ultimate Punk Music Store |publisher=Interpunk.com |date=August 1, 2013 |access-date=April 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713103142/http://interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=214271& |archive-date=July 13, 2014 |url-status=live }} The Huntingtons' File Under Ramones consists of Ramones covers from across the band's history.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r402981|pure_url=yes}}|title=Overview: File Under Ramones|last=Huey|first=Steve |website=Allmusic|access-date=November 6, 2009}}

Shonen Knife, an all-female trio from Osaka, Japan, was formed in 1981 as a direct result of founder-lead singer-guitarist Naoko Yamano's instant infatuation with the music of the Ramones. In 2012, to observe the band's 30th anniversary, Shonen Knife released Osaka Ramones, which featured thirteen Ramones songs covered by the band.{{cite web|last=Anderson|first=Rick|title=Osaka Ramones: Tribute to the Ramones – Shonen Knife {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards {{!}} AllMusic|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/osaka-ramones-tribute-to-the-ramones-mw0002177474|work=AllMusic|publisher=AllRovi|access-date=January 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820235400/http://www.allmusic.com/album/osaka-ramones-tribute-to-the-ramones-mw0002177474|archive-date=August 20, 2012|url-status=live}} There are also many other tribute albums listed on Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone's site.{{cite news |first=Jari-Pekka |last=Laitio-Ramone |title=Ramones' tribute albums |url=http://www.ramonesheaven.com/speci.html |publisher=Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone |date=December 15, 2015 |access-date=January 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104064726/http://www.ramonesheaven.com/speci.html |archive-date=November 4, 2015 |url-status=live }}

• Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman) – lead vocals (1974–1996; died 2001)
• Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) – guitars (1974–1996; died 2004), backing vocals (1981)
• Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) – bass, backing and lead vocals (1974–1989; died 2002)
• Tommy Ramone (Thomas Erdelyi) – drums (1974–1978; died 2014), backing vocals (1976), production (1976–1978, 1984), additional guitar (1976–1978)
• Marky Ramone (Marc Bell) – drums (1978–1983, 1987–1996), backing vocals (1981)
• Richie Ramone (Richard Reinhardt) – drums, backing vocals (1983–1987)
• Elvis Ramone (Clem Burke) – drums (1987; died 2025)
• C. J. Ramone (Christopher Joseph Ward) – bass, backing and lead vocals (1989–1996)

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Studio albums

• Ramones (1976)
• Leave Home (1977)
• Rocket to Russia (1977)
• Road to Ruin (1978)
• End of the Century (1980)
• Pleasant Dreams (1981)
• Subterranean Jungle (1983)
• Too Tough to Die (1984)
• Animal Boy (1986)
• Halfway to Sanity (1987)
• Brain Drain (1989)
• Mondo Bizarro (1992)
• Acid Eaters (1993)
• ¡Adios Amigos! (1995)

{{Portal|New York City|1980s|1990s}}

• Danny Says (film)
• Gabba Gabba Hey
• List of Ramones concerts
• Ramones Museum

{{Notelist}}

{{Reflist}}

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