![]() "We recorded it at Sonic Iguana in something silly like fifteen hours", wrote Weasel, "and mixed it to sound like the first Ramones album (bass outta one speaker, guitar outta the other). My favorite Ramones album is actually Leave Home, but we all agreed we could do a halfway decent job with their first album." They recorded the album with recording engineer Mass Giorgini at his Sonic Iguana Studios in Lafayette, Indiana, working from midnight on Octountil 2:00 AM the following day, with the band members acting as record producers. "It was a completely stupid idea," wrote singer Ben Weasel several years later, "so of course we did it. The series began when Selfless Records head Todd Greene contacted Chicago-based band Screeching Weasel while they were celebrating the completion of recording sessions for their album Wiggle, asking if they would record their favorite Ramones album for his label. Some of the albums were later re-released on compact disc by Clearview or other labels. ![]() T Experience, the Beatnik Termites, and the McRackins respectively covering End of the Century (1980), It's Alive (1979), Road to Ruin (1978), Pleasant Dreams (1981), and Too Tough to Die (1984).Įach entry in the series was issued as a limited edition LP record, with 1,400 copies pressed in the standard black, 300 on colored discs, and an additional 300 with an alternate screen printed cover intended for the band to sell on tour. Selfless then became Clearview Records and continued the series, with Boris the Sprinkler, the Parasites, the Mr. Under the Selfless label, Screeching Weasel, the Queers, and the Vindictives respectively covered the first three Ramones albums: Ramones (1976), Rocket to Russia (1977), and Leave Home (1977). ![]() ![]() Album series released by Selfless Recordsīetween 19, a series of Ramones covers albums were released by Selfless Records (later Clearview Records), an independent record label based in Garland, Texas specializing in punk rock, on which bands influenced by seminal punk group the Ramones performed cover versions of entire Ramones albums. ![]()
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