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Originally Posted by Pookie
The significance of the SY cover is that the Ramones were VERY uncool at the time, as indeed they were for a very large portion of their career.
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Oh yeah, that's true enough, of course, in the sense that their golden period was well over by that point. Though as a final gasp, they did put this out as a single in 1986, which, predictably enough, Johnny Ramone hated:
http://youtu.be/Su0Hvt6hTmA
You've just reminded me of the anecdote in the book "Please Kill Me", where Messrs McNeil and Holmstrom went to see this lot in CBGBs for the first time. The Ramones stomped onstage, blasted into their first number, then suddenly stopped, stormed offstasge and got into an argument with each other. Apparently they were all playing a completely different song to each other! Lou Reed was present too and was laughing at the whole thing.