First of all, Joey would’ve totally fucking nailed Celluloid Heroes & now I’m kinda pissed he never did it. But I also wanna take a second to dispel this knee-jerk lazy “The Ramones only ever played 3 chords” bullshit. First of all, I’d estimate about 80% of The Ramones catalog is made up of songs with more than 3 chords. If you play guitar you understand that once you learn your major chords – particularly barre chords as Johnny famously only played – it makes no difference skills wise whether you play 2 chords or 20 chords, it’s just an artistic decision re: how you want the song to be. And while it’s always been a funny shortcut to a punchline to highlight how simple The Ramones’ were conceptually, it’s a bummer that a guitar played as talented & experienced as Dave Davies would push this nonsense.
Either way, like I said now I’m just furious he never did record it; Joey Ramone had a voice of an angel that would’ve been perfect for the song.
I also can't believe that of all the covers The Ramones did, they never did a Kinks song which is a shame because they always were happy to spread the word re: their love of The Kinks and what an influence they were on them. So we'll hafta settle for Mary Ramone's post-Ramones band's cover of The Kinks stone-cold classic Better Things:
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