RamonesRocket to Russia

More hooks, more tempo, and a brighter punch than the first two records, but still unmistakably the Ramones throwing elbows. Cut on 24-track at Mediasound, a converted Episcopal church in Midtown, so the buzzsaw guitars ring with a little more air around them. 'Rockaway Beach' is sun-drunk surf-punk and their highest-charting single. 'Teenage Lobotomy' rips by in a blur producer Ed Stasium called a mini-Ramones symphony. Tommy's last go behind the kit, and the band never sounded more locked in. Crank it and let it gallop.