Ramones Road To Ruin (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)(3CD/1LP)

The Ramones: Joey Ramone (vocals); Johnny Ramone (guitar); Dee Dee Ramone (bass, background vocals); Marky Ramone (drums).Producers: T. Erdelyi, Ed Stasium.Reissue producers: Bill Inglot, Gary Stewart.Engineers: T. Erdelyi, Ed Stasium.Principally recorded at Media Sound, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Legs McNeil and Arturo Vega.Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch and Bill Inglot (Digiprep Studios).The last installment of the Ramones' breathtaking run of four albums in two years, the underrated ROAD TO RUIN shows that the group's follow-up, the Phil Spector-produced END OF THE CENTURY, was not as huge a change of direction as it's often made out to be. Compared to the fairly primitive RAMONES and LEAVE HOME, ROCKET TO RUSSIA had sounded almost slick, and ROAD TO RUIN goes it one better. Tom Erdelyi remains as co-producer, but his new partner Ed Stasium reveals a gift for balancing hard-candy gloss, bubble-gum hooks and noisy punk passion; similarly, Erdelyi's replacement on