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Title: Ramones perfect pop-punk approach
Review: This album seems to get short shrift from critics and fans, but for the life of me I can't figure out why. Everytime I play this in my car, my voice gets hoarse from singing along. "The KKK Took My Baby Away" is genius; "We Want the Airwaves" a passionate, simmering cry for rock'n'roll justice; "Sitting in My Room" humorously defiant; "7-11" a mournful, yet strangely upbeat, love song; "She's a Sensation" a sure cure for the blues; "Ain't My Place (in the 9 to 5 World)" clever and sharp, with "cameos" by Stephen King and Jack Nicholson. This whole album is a blast from beginning to end, and worlds better than the album that preceeded it, the Phil Spector-produced "End of the Century."
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