RAMONES - Road to Ruin VINYL

1978. The Ramones had already invented punk rock, watched everyone else take credit for it, and were now on their fourth album trying to figure out what came next.

Road to Ruin is where the leather jacket loosened just enough to let in some melody, with Don't Come Close and I Wanna Be Sedated sitting alongside the kind of aggressive brevity that still makes every other genre feel overworked. It's the Ramones at a crossroads, which means it's still better than most bands at their peak. This 40th anniversary pressing on blue vinyl is the version to own if you don't already have it, or the version to upgrade to if your original is held together with masking tape and willpower. Essential punk history pressed in the right colour.

Single LP, blue vinyl, 40th anniversary edition, pressed in the USA. Fans of: Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Adicts, Bad Religion, Joey Ramone.