Leave Home
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Leave Home
Leave Home is the second studio album by American punk rock band the Ramones. It was released on January 10, 1977, through Sire Records, with the expanded CD being released through Rhino Entertainment on June 19, 2001. Songs on the album were written immediately after the band's first album's writing process, which demonstrated the band's progression. The album had a higher production value than their debut Ramones and featured faster tempos. The front photo was taken by Moshe Brakha and the back cover, which would become the band's logo, was designed by Arturo Vega. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
the songs still zip by at the speed of light, every hook ramming into the next—but everything seemed bolder and louder than what came before, as if the problem with the debut wasn’t the formula but the execution. -2017
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BBC
As perfect and exhilarating as it could be within its own stripped-down, guitar, bass... -2008
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Sputnik Music
The album is quite varied, in lyrical content and in musical approach, despite claims that all Ramones songs sound alike, and it proves to be one of their best albums. -2005
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Rolling Stone
'Marquee Moon' is a small masterpiece, and the album a medium-sized one. -1977
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Pop Matters
Leave Home has always worked best. It's so simple, such pure rock 'n' roll, embodying all of those characteristics of the genre that haven't changed in 50 years. -2003
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Louder Sound
Leave Home is repositioned among the Ramones’ very best as a towering classic of its era. -2017
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Punk News
The Ramones brought rock n' roll back in touch by stripping it down. In other words, there is no excuse for a 20—minute organ solo, nor will there ever be a need for one. -2014
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Long Live Vinyl
As a package, this is a wonderful documentation of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most vital bands, captured during a special time and place in music history, sadly lost forever.
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The Second Disc
Leave Home continued the approach of Ramones: fast, furious, and crunchy riffs played in rudimentary style but with abundant energy and punk swagger. -2017
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Wall of Sound
the album although enjoyable, at times just feels like filler.
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Record Collector
the second album by da brudders may not have been as impactful as that catalysing debut, but its tight focus in double-underlining the quartet’s playfully seditious, trash-pop-culture aesthetic was smart.
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Eventalaide
Leave Home was not The Ramones greatest body of work, but still a solid set of songs. -2017
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Diffuser
Leave Home is, indeed, a solid wall of sound that is as melodic and pop as it is heavy and pile-driving. -2017
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The Morton Report
They delivered the medicine, and it helped to wake up a genre that was getting a bit too sleepy. -2017
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Robert Christgau
People who consider this a one-joke band aren't going to change their minds now. People who love the joke for its power, wit, and economy will be happy to hear it twice.
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adrian Denning
This is deliriously silly and happy stuff - a cover of an old Rock and Roll tune. Because they could, and they did.
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Mark Prindle
easily the most emotionally resonant album they had done by that point.
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The Austin Chronicle
The 15-song set captures a hungry band eager to prove themselves to an audience hearing them for the second time.
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The Arts Desk
Leave Home demonstrated the Ramones more-than had the goods to build on the promise of their era-defining debut, and little needs saying about the album itself.
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Treble
One of the most important punk albums to come out of New York City turn 40 this year.
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AZ Central
Their second album plays out like a logical extension of the first. And it works like a charm. -2015
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Keep Track of the Time
The first album was a good debut album, but these two albums took them to other heights. -2014
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Top 100
Leave Home doesn't get the most attention of the crucial first four Ramones albums, but it's more a question of being overlooked. -2017
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