Almost as good - Almost as good as Ramones. Better production, but the songs are a little samey. For anyone getting into the Ramones, the first four albums are all essential, then get Too Tough To Die and you re set.As a hard core Ramones fan from the beginning a note should be made that the live material is NOT from the Roxy in 1976. I was there. They did not do Chain Saw and Glad to See You Go hadn t even been written.
This is a complete headbanger! - This is the best album by the Ramones, PERIOD! Sure, the first one (Ramones) was great, Rocket to Russia was excellent, but Leave Home is the best of the bunch. If you are new to The Ramones, I suggest that you get this album. It also includes a live recording, when they played at the Roxy, in California. This is awesome and I urge you, if you don t have it, to get it now.
better than the debut and Rocket - That s my opinion, anyway. This has always been my favorite Ramones album. A lot of people prefer the 1st one or Rocket To Russia. I love them all but there s something about this one that really grabbed me. Johnny Ramone s guitar sound is so great on this one. Every song is a killer and it s great to have Carbona back in its rightful place. That song was impossible to find during the 80 s and 90 s.Check out Mighty High...In Drug City if you like glue, lobotomies, pills, etc.
Get the glory, like Charles Manson! - After carving out the constitution of 70s punk rock with their self titled debut, the Ramones went on to crunchier, more hook-filled pastures with this, their sophomore release. Leave Home sees the group refining their obsession with distorted sledgehammer power chords, American trash culture, and chewed-up bubblegum pop. These songs are fun, exuberant, hilarious, trashy, furious, and in their own bizarre way, poignant, with infectious melodies twirling their way around face-smashing guitars and gutter-rat harmonies. Like its predecessor (and its follow up, Rocket To Russia), Leave Home plays like a greatest hits collection: That opening salvo, with the vicious joy of Glad To See You Go followed by the gonzo therapy rock of Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment followed by the gloriously hook-filled I Remember You followed by the heroically moronic romance of Oh Oh I Love Her So followed by the snarky drug anthem Carbona Not Glue followed by the roaringly catchy Suzy Is A Headbanger followed by the bozo anthem Pinhead followed by the tongue-in-cheek bounce of Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy followed by greaser pop of Swallow My Pride follow- look, the whole album is great, okay? Just get it!
When you only want to purchase one.... - A friend of mine heard a Ramones song or two and was intrigued. As someone who followed the band from its beginnings through its middle-age of forgettable albums and to its eventual demise. I wanted to buy him an album that would grab him buy the lapels and not let go. I settled on Ramones Leave Home as the one that best captured their early raw power, urban disaffection, and straightforward embrace of inanity. This did the trick.