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| 1. Glad To See You Go | |||
| 2. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment | |||
| 3. I Remember You | |||
| 4. Oh Oh I Love Her So | |||
| 5. Carbona Not Glue | |||
| 6. Suzy Is A Headbanger | |||
| 7. Pinhead | |||
| 8. Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy | |||
| 9. Swallow My Pride | |||
| 10. What's Your Game | |||
| 11. California Sun | |||
| 12. Commando | |||
| 13. You're Gonna Kill That Girl | |||
| 14. You Should Never Have Opened That Door | |||
| 15. Babysitter | |||
| 16. Loudmouth (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA 8/12/76) | |||
| 17. Beat On The Brat (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA 8/12/76) | |||
| 18. Blitzkrieg Bop (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA 8/12/76) | |||
| 19. I Remember You (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA 8/12/76) | |||
| 20. Glad To See You Go (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood, CA 8/12/76) | |||
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With most of the material written at the same time as their debut and having been performed live for over twelve months (how else would they have made up a full hour-long set list?), Leave Home is more of the same. But it's far from a carbon copy of its predecessor. For starters the studio budget had gone up allowing the band to get a smoother sound and a better producer. Tommy Bongiovi (second cousin to Jon Bon Jovi, fact fans) had won his engineer's spurs with no one less than Jimi Hendrix, and his production, while only taking off a few of the edges, allowed the band to refine their sound.
Subject matter-wise it was business as usual, with songs about fairground freaks (Pinhead), right-wing militarism (Commando), mental illness (Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment), misogyny (Glad To See You Go) and low rent drug abuse (Carbona Not Glue); all served with a good dose of humour. The latter again landed them in trouble, getting the album withdrawn and re-released with an alternative track (the b-side, Babysitter).
But alongside the heady rush of the full-on approach was 'da brudders' love of 60s surf-pop and Phil Spector romanticism. Their cover of The Riviera's California Sun makes perfect sense, and Joey's rendition of I Remember You is as sweet a love song as you could get.
Ultimately, Leave Home is a reconciliation and, along with the other three of their first four albums is basically as perfect and exhilarating as it could be within its own stripped-down, guitar, bass and drums universe. Gabba gabba hey, indeed! --Chris Jones
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The bonus tracks on this album are a (complete, I assume) Ramones live performance at the ROXY from December 1976, with songs from the (fantastic) first album as well as from the second album itself. Joey introduces most songs with such comments as "This is for all you salsa fans" (Havana Affair) or, to open, "We're the Ramones, and you're a loudmouth, baby, you better shut up!" and the performance is typical fast Ramones live stuff.
The album itself has some classic tracks, like "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment", "You Should Never Have Opened That Door", and "Pinhead", which created the "Gabba Gabba hey" chant. Songs I hadn't heard from the live album in "The Chrysalis Anthology" (which is excellent value too, by the way: the band's five last albums in one cheap set) include "Commado" with its chanted chorus of "First rule is ..." (the rules are a bizzare mix of "the laws of Germany" and "be nice to mommy"). So the songs mine the seams of B-movies, punk life, and trashy pop emotion that the Ramones made their own.
This album is played a lot faster than the first one (which sounds surprisingly slow when you first hear it), which many people might like. Personally I prefer "Ramones", which has a fantastic primitive sound (bass in one speak, guitar in the other), and a huge bassiness to the mix. "Leave Home" doesn't sound as good to me: the bass seems light, the mix more conventional; also the playing, though faster, seems a bit less tight than on the first album.
So I'd rate this album after the first album and the third ("Rocket to Russia"), but that's a preference that others will no doubt disagree with. "Leave Home" is a classic album, and all fans will buy it, and it comes with a whole live perrformance as bonus tracks, so is excellent value.
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