![]() ![]() Greg settles on the song "We’re a Happy Family" as a representation of the Ramones knack for writing catchy social commentary. Jim plays " Sheena is a Punk Rocker", calling it the "perfect rock song" and reminiscing about his young days listening to The Ramones. To stake their flag in the dissection's conclusion, Jim and Greg each choose their favorite song from Rocket to Russia. Tommy tells all, including the story of the band's suburban origins and the secret behind Dee Dee's famous, though not-so-useful count-offs. Jim and Greg, curious about the magic behind masters of punk, ask Tommy about the day-to-day during the recording process and the band's cross-pond rivalry with British punk group the Sex Pistols. This week, Jim and Greg revisit a Classic Album Dissection of The Ramones' 1977 speed machine featuring their 2007 conversation with drummer and producer Tommy Ramone. However, it wasn't until the next year, after a monumental European tour and the release of their third album, Rocket to Russia, that the group's characteristic break-neck punk sound flooded the airwaves and the took the rock world by storm. In 1976, The Ramones blasted onto the budding punk scene with their self-titled first LP and blew critics away with their blistering speed and old-school simplicity. ![]() The hosts were joined by Donna Gaines, sociologist, journalist, and author of the book Why The Ramones Matter, to discuss the musical, social, and even political contributions of the band. And although they were never at the top of the charts, their influence on both punk music and on American culture at large is undeniable. The original line-up was lead singer Joey Ramone, guitarist Johnny Ramone, bass guitarist Dee Dee Ramone and drummer Tommy Ramone. The Ramones formed in Queens, New York in 1974. This time, they're tackling a question that may be obvious to some: Why do the Ramones Matter? This week, Jim and Greg present another installment of our Summer School series. Greg acknowledges that with so much celebration and without deep reflection the album can be a chore to get through. Jim says with more brutal honesty, this album could have been a masterpiece. They both feel Chance is capable of much more complexity in his lyrics, though they find the production and performances on most songs to be very enjoyable. ![]() Jim and Greg both cite the confessional lyrics of " We Go High" as a noble gesture of honesty, but ultimately find the treatment of weighty topics such as fidelity, mortality and parenthood lack depth. Some critics consider the subject matter uncool, though Greg doesn't count himself among them. The Big Day is referencing Chance's recent wedding to his longtime girlfriend, which is the most common topic discussed in the songs. The Big Day features many guest performers including Death Cab For Cutie, Shawn Mendes, Gucci Mane, Nicki Minaj, John Legend and Randy Newman.Īt 19 songs (plus three skits) and 82 minutes running time, Jim and Greg agree the album is too long. Since then Chance has expanded his focus beyond music: producing stadium concerts, supporting local politicians, donating $1 million to Chicago Public Schools and buying the news website, Chicagoist. His third mixtape, Coloring Book, was the first streaming-only release to win a Grammy award- three, in fact, including Rap Album of the Year. If (file.exists("data/ramones_lyrics_genius.Audio player Download Subscribe via iTunes The Big Day Chance The RapperĬhance The Rapper's "debut album," The Big Day, is one of the most anticipated albums of 2019. I’m embarressed to think about the tangled mess of web scraping code I was previously using.Īs usual, we check to see if the file with all the downloaded data is already available so, as we iterate versions of our project, we don’t hit the API over and over. This gets fed into a single function genius::add_genius which returns all the lyrics. First we build a data frame of album names and the year of release. There are numerous tutorials on this subject around.Īs always, we will be working in the tidyverse veracular. I will leave installing the token called GENIUS_API_TOKEN into your R environment as an exercise for the reader. Access to the lyric API does require a free application access token. Months passed then it occurred to me to Google “lyrics api” and, “viola!”, I found and the genius R package by Josiah Parry, available on CRAN. I coaxed it to get all of the lyrics but I didn’t want to share it in this post because you would likely not be able to get it to work smoothly. Originally, I built a very finicky web scraping routine to get lyrics from a site I commonly use in my browser. For this project we need a source of Ramones lyrics. Have you ever spent an enormous amount of time on something, only to discover there was a much simpler way? Yes, yes you have. ![]()
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