Ramones - Rocket To RussiaThe Ramones released its second album of the calendar year (and third overall) on November 4, 1977, capping off one of the biggest years in the history of punk with Rocket To Russia. Among the bands best loved albums, it features classics like Sheena Is A Punk Rocker and Rockaway Beach along with their signature covers of Do You Wanna Dance? and Surfin Bird. Its also the last album ever recorded by all four founding members, as drummer Tommy Ramone

but most of it I‰۪ve kept for myself

among them hit singles

While Tupac's first effort included a more underground or indie-rap-oriented sound

‰ÛÏWisdom comes with age

it‰۪s real intense

the normal way you make albums

The title track is drawn from David Tattersall’s nightmare vision about his home town's population of self governing people

‰ÛÏWe've used three years of touring to try and get some of that sweat and grime and togetherness and sweetness and anxiety onto a record

as Hidaka describes

splitting the difference between The Clean’s Unknown Country and The Byrds Fifth Dimension

with its enormous

recorded soon after the album was finished