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• Its Alive captures the Ramones at their explosive best: raw, relentless, and absurdly tight. Recorded live at Londons Rainbow Theatre on New Years Eve 1977 and released in 1979, the album distills the bands first three records into a blistering 28-song set performed in just under an hour. There’s no banter, no solos, and no fatjust rapid-fire punk rock delivered with machine-like precision and unshakable energy. If you ever needed proof that the Ramones were one of the greatest live acts in rock history, this is it.

  From Blitzkrieg Bop to Sheena Is a Punk Rocker to Cretin Hop, each track hits like a punch to the gutfast, catchy, and gloriously simple. What the studio versions hinted at, Its Alive shouts from the rafters: this band was a force of nature. The crowds energy, the bands sta