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¡Adios Amigos! (1995)

Where the lyrics of ¡Adios Amigos! take you, and where it was really made.

This was the Ramones' last studio album, and the band disbanded a year after its release and the tour that followed.

Key places

Recorded at Baby Monster Studios (1995)

Recording site Baby Monster Studios — The album was recorded at Baby Monster Studios in New York City. It was the band's third album on Radioactive Records after leaving Sire. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• ¡Adios Amigos!: fourteenth and final studio album by the American punk rock band Ramones
• Released July 18, 1995 through Radioactive Records
• Recorded at Baby Monster Studios in New York City
• The Ramones disbanded a year after the album's release and the tour that followed

Background

• Third album on Radioactive Records, made after the band left Sire over weak sales and chart results
• Relations within the band were strained: Joey Ramone's deteriorating health (Non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis), a decade-long feud between Joey and Johnny Ramone, and a growing rift between Marky and C.J.
• Long-time friend Daniel Rey was recruited again to produce, liked by the whole band

Recording

• C.J. Ramone sings lead on Makin Monsters for My Friends, The Crusher, Cretin Family and Scattergun
• Dee Dee Ramone makes his first Ramones album appearance since 1989 during the bridge of the closing track Born to Die in Berlin
• Johnny Ramone said the album had perhaps the best of all the guitar sounds he ever got

Cover

• The cover is a digitally altered version of Mark Kostabi's painting Enasaurs, showing two Allosaurus in sombreros
• The back cover shows the band tied up before a firing squad
• Longtime road manager Monte Melnick sits sleeping beside the band in the artwork

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Tracklist

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Artist

Formation

• An American punk rock band formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, in 1974.
• Founding members Jeff Hyman, John Cummings, Douglas Colvin and Thomas Erdelyi took the stage names Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy Ramone.
• The name was inspired by Paul McCartney's pseudonym Paul Ramon from his Silver Beetles days.
• The band made its CBGB debut on August 16, 1974, and became regulars at the club.
• Sire Records signed them in late 1975.

Members

• Joey Ramone (lead vocals, 1974–1996; died 2001).
• Johnny Ramone (guitar, 1974–1996; died 2004).
• Dee Dee Ramone (bass, 1974–1989; died 2002).
• Tommy Ramone (drums, 1974–1978; died 2014).
• Marky Ramone, Richie Ramone, Elvis Ramone and C. J. Ramone joined as later drummers and bassists.

Career

• The debut album Ramones was released in April 1976 and helped spearhead punk; its influence on British and American punk is widely cited.
• The band performed 2,263 concerts and released fourteen studio albums.
• Rocket to Russia (1977) was its highest-charting album, reaching number 49 on the Billboard 200.
• The band broke up after a farewell show at the Palace in Hollywood on August 6, 1996, following the Lollapalooza tour.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 and given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

Reception

At release

• Reviews were mixed to positive, and many fans saw the album as a return to form for the band
• Entertainment Weekly: Evelyn McDonnell gave the album an A−, saying the band's blitzkrieg bop has not aged and is timelier than ever

Reappraisal

• AllMusic: Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the album an admirable way to bow out in a retrospective review
• He said it recaptured some of the inspiration of Too Tough to Die and improved on Brain Drain and Mondo Bizarro, though it drifted close to self-parody
• He concluded it was the right way to end the band, since it rocks and rolls and is not an embarrassment

Records

• The band's cover of Tom Waits' I Don't Want to Grow Up became a minor hit
• It breached the top 40 of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and peaked at No. 30
• The Ramones had long failed to break through on singles charts, so this was an unusual result

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Trivia

• The American version adds a hidden track, Spiderman, which differs slightly from the version recorded for the Saturday Morning tribute album
• The Japanese version and the Captain Oi reissue add the bonus track R.A.M.O.N.E.S., originally recorded by Motörhead for their 1991 album 1916
• In his 2012 autobiography Commando, Johnny Ramone gave the album a B+ grade
• Marky Ramone loved the album for Daniel Rey's production but thought the cover was terrible
• Monte Melnick, the sleeping man beside the band in the artwork, was their longtime road manager

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

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