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VOL № RR015— September 2024

Too Tough to Die

Ramones
Why you'll love it...

The Ramones’ Too Tough To Die is often positioned as a return to form for the band, but today, forty years since its release, their eighth studio album seems worthy of a far more radical categorization. In the musical landscape of the mid-1980s, the album was incoherent — not in a pejorative sense, but in how it reflected the paradoxes of its time. Made without a steady compass, the album’s incongruity became its center, and it holds. As Joey Ramone said in a 1988 interview: “Around ’84, the world was changing drastically with Iran and Gadaffi and all this stuff. Things were getting scary. So, our songs started changing.” 

Echoing the surrounding instability, the Ramones created an album so layered, complex, and challenging that it can still be hard to pin down, eve...

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Label
Sire
Original Release Year
1984
Release Type
Reissue
Format
1LP
Speed
33 1/3 rpm
Vinyl Size
12 inch
Weight
180 gram
Foil Stamped
Yes
Color
Blue Cloudy
Jacket
Direct-To-Board; Single
Pressing Location
GZ Vinyl
Remastering Details
(AAA) Lacquers Cut From the Master Tapes by Ryan Smith, Sterling Sound
Extras
Listening Notes Booklet by Nicholas Rombes
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