{"id":6769,"date":"2012-06-22T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2012-06-22T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:19:08","slug":"joey-ramone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/joey-ramone\/","title":{"rendered":"JOEY RAMONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6770\" title=\"JOEY-RAMONE-M-Review-May2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JOEY-RAMONE-M-Review-May2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JOEY-RAMONE-M-Review-May2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JOEY-RAMONE-M-Review-May2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>J<\/strong><strong>OEY RAMONE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>&#8230;Ya Know?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[BMG Rights Management]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Joey Ramone embodied rock \u2019n\u2019 roll at its most joyous and elemental, from the mid-\u201970s\u2014when he and his fellow Ramones basically invented punk\u2014to his death in 2001. The lovably gawky frontman bleated fast and catchy songs about loving pop culture and living the life of a weirdo outsider. His second posthumous solo album revisits these ideas, and if \u201cRock \u2019N\u2019 Roll Is the Answer\u201d and \u201cNew York City\u201d are mellower than his early classics\u2014more bubblegum hard-rock than blitzing punk\u2014they retain his no-frills, maximum-fun aesthetic. The album came together thanks to Joey\u2019s brother, Mickey Leigh, who enlisted the likes of Joan Jett and Steven Van Zandt to play on unfinished demos. Certain songs inevitably take on unintended poignancy on posthumous albums of this kind, and \u00a0<em>\u2026Ya Know?<\/em> is no exception. On the acoustic \u201cWaiting for That Railroad,\u201d Joey\u2019s Ronnie Spector-indebted vocal hits like a subway car to the heart, while the closing T. Rex cover \u201cLife\u2019s a Gas\u201d gives this legend a fitting epitaph. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOEY RAMONE &#8230;Ya Know? [BMG Rights Management] Joey Ramone embodied rock \u2019n\u2019 roll at its most joyous and elemental, from the mid-\u201970s\u2014when he and his fellow Ramones basically invented punk\u2014to his death in 2001. The lovably gawky frontman bleated fast and catchy songs about loving pop culture and living the life of a weirdo outsider. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[4069,196,4071,4070,4073,4068,3754,4072,4074],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6771,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}