If there's any good reason to buy vinyl bootlegs in the age of DSL-internet, then this album surely isn't.
It came out in Europe in 2001 and several editions of it were issued with color variations of the sleeve and the vinyl.
The cover of my copy has green lettering, but I've also seen combinations of yellow, orange and magenta ones.
The record collects most of the bonus tracks that were made available through the Rhino/Warner Archives series of expanded & remastered CD's of the first four Ramones albums, except 'Leave Home' which didn't have any worthwile bonus tracks on it.
The demo tracks on side one here are from 1976 and 1977 and except for A4 and A6 were released on the regular albums and A10 had been the B-side of a UK only single.
Side two, tracks 1 and 2 are different versions of tracks featured on the 'Hey Ho Let's Go' anthology (and 'Rock 'n' Roll Highschool' can be found on 'End Of The Century' album in some version as well), while the live medley was the RAMONES' contribution to the soundtrack of the same name in 1979. The album closes with two demo tracks of which B4 had never been released before and B5 appearing on the 'All That Stuff (And More)' compilation.
The sound quality however is fine, yet the cover artwork looks like some messed up web page with very primitve HTML-styled
layout and crude orthographical faults, like the listing of track 4 on Side B.
Maybe it was intended to make the buyers of this album feel sorry for it. The only good thing about it may be the fact that it should, but not might be easy to get as free download, blogwise or elsewhere.
If there's any good reason to buy vinyl bootlegs in the age of DSL-internet, then this album surely isn't.
It came out in Europe in 2001 and several editions of it were issued with color variations of the sleeve and the vinyl.
The cover of my copy has green lettering, but I've also seen combinations of yellow, orange and magenta ones.
The record collects most of the bonus tracks that were made available through the Rhino/Warner Archives series of expanded & remastered CD's of the first four Ramones albums, except 'Leave Home' which didn't have any worthwile bonus tracks on it.
The demo tracks on side one here are from 1976 and 1977 and except for A4 and A6 were released on the regular albums and A10 had been the B-side of a UK only single.
Side two, tracks 1 and 2 are different versions of tracks featured on the 'Hey Ho Let's Go' anthology (and 'Rock 'n' Roll Highschool' can be found on 'End Of The Century' album in some version as well), while the live medley was the RAMONES' contribution to the soundtrack of the same name in 1979. The album closes with two demo tracks of which B4 had never been released before and B5 appearing on the 'All That Stuff (And More)' compilation.
The sound quality however is fine, yet the cover artwork looks like some messed up web page with very primitve HTML-styled
layout and crude orthographical faults, like the listing of track 4 on Side B.
Maybe it was intended to make the buyers of this album feel sorry for it. The only good thing about it may be the fact that it should, but not might be easy to get as free download, blogwise or elsewhere.