Rocket To Russia - The Ramones (1977)

Three months in 1977: Released Nov 4. Skipping ELO’s best album, Out Of The Blue, as well as Neil Young’s Decade comp, both out Oct 28.

I don’t know that I’ve ever loved The Ramones. But I can certainly appreciate what they were doing. They took the joyous shoutalong choruses and call and response energy of 50s rockers like Eddie Cochrane, added in a bunch of simple but well executed harmonies, and put enough punk guitar noise under it to make it more than the sum of its parts.