The dumbest band with the dumbest tunes - but still they transcend all other groups as the ground zero of rock, reduced to its crudest essence. This, their first album is a brutal combination of 60s pop and garage punk with adolescent tales of girls and sniffing glue. The nifty 33 1/3 book series publishes cool little books that dive deep into individual canonical rock 'n' roll albums. Ramones/Ramones is undoubtedly a worthy addition to their catalog. ? Rombes does a concise job of laying out a solid thesis (complete with a chart), detailing the various early waves of punk (or new wave, as the terms are proved interchangeable) and approaching these topics in a thoughtful but fun way. ? This book got me thinking about this culture in ways I never had before.