RAMONES

BRAIN DRAIN

  1/  I Believe in Miracles                      (Dee Dee Ramone,Rey)          3.18
  2/  Zero Zero UFO                              (Dee Dee Ramone,Rey)          2.24
  3/  Don't Bust My Chops                        (DDRamone,J.Ramone,Rey)       2.28
  4/  Punishment Fits the Crime                  (DD Ramone,Stotts)            3.05
  5/  All Screwed Up                             (JR,MR,DR,Schernoff)          3.58
  6/  Palisades Park                             (Barris)                      2.19
  7/  Pet Sematary                               (Dee Dee Ramone,Rey)          3.29
  8/  Learn To Listen                            (DDR,JR,MR,Rey)               1.49
  9/  Can't Get You Outta My Mind                (Joey Ramone)                 3.20
  10/ Ignorance Is Bliss                         (J.Ramone,Schernoff)          2.37
  11/ Come Back, Baby                            (Joey Ramone)                 3.58
  12/ Merry Christmas (I Don't Want              (Joey Ramone)                 2.04
           to Fight Tonight)

          Recorded at Sorcerer Sound
          Produced by Bill Laswell
          Tracks 7 and 12 produced by Jean Beauvoir and Daniel Rey

Joey Ramone : vocals; Dee Dee Ramone : guitars(?); Marky Ramone : bass; ??? Ramone : drums.

          1989  -  Sire/Warner Bros. (USA),  9  25905-2  (CD)
          1989  -  Chrysalis (UK),  CCD 1725  (CD)

Note : Bill Laswell does not play on this album.

REVIEWS :

Though it contains one of the Ramones' biggest radio hits, "Pet Sematary" (written for {%Stephen King}'s movie of the same name), 1989's Brain Drain finds the "bruthas" from Queens at an all-time inspirational low. And since the aforementioned track is actually reviled by most of the band's hardcore fans, the listener has to make do with opener "I Believe in Miracles" and closer "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight), which bookend the amazingly dull tracks in between with the record's only bright moments. The final Ramones album recorded for Sire Records (their label from day one), Brain Drain was sadly also the last to feature bassist and creative leader Dee Dee Ramone.

Ed Rivadavia (courtesy of the All Music Guide, via the Get Music website)