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First of all: how amazing are these Rhino reissues of the Ramones' albums? I mean this one has more bonus tracks than original album tracks! Fantastic value, as the Ramones' albums on their own were very short. These reissues use the original album covers, come in slipcases, and the booklets all contain lots of contemporary pictures of the band, and excellent new sleevenotes (by different people for each album), and also print the lyrics! They're the best!The bonus tracks on this album are a (complete, I assume) Ramones live performance at the ROXY from December 1976, with songs from the (fantasticmore…) first album as well as from the second album itself. Joey introduces most songs with such comments as "This is for all you salsa fans" (Havana Affair) or, to open, "We're the Ramones, and you're a loudmouth, baby, you better shut up!" and the performance is typical fast Ramones live stuff.The album itself has some classic tracks, like "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment", "You Should Never Have Opened That Door", and "Pinhead", which created the "Gabba Gabba hey" chant. Songs I hadn't heard from the live album in "The Chrysalis Anthology" (which is excellent value too, by the way: the band's five last albums in one cheap set) include "Commado" with its chanted chorus of "First rule is ..." (the rules are a bizzare mix of "the laws of Germany" and "be nice to mommy"). So the songs mine the seams of B-movies, punk life, and trashy pop emotion that the Ramones made their own.This album is played a lot faster than the first one (which sounds surprisingly slow when you first hear it), which many people might like. Personally I prefer "Ramones", which has a fantastic primitive sound (bass in one speak, guitar in the other), and a huge bassiness to the mix. "Leave Home" doesn't sound as good to me: the bass seems light, the mix more conventional; also the playing, though faster, seems a bit less tight than on the first album.So I'd rate this album after the first album and the third ("Rocket to Russia"), but that's a preference that others will no doubt disagree with. "Leave Home" is a classic album, and all fans will buy it, and it comes with a whole live perrformance as bonus tracks, so is excellent value.

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CD

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Ramones - Leave Home: Remastered and Expanded (2001) Retail CD

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