No. 364: The Ramones - "Ramones" (1976)

I spend half an hour on the treadmill in my back shed every morning of every day (well, most mornings) - and its rare that I can listen to a complete album on my iPod in that time.
Ramones clocks in at 29:04 and contains a lazy 14 songs - all fast, raucous and extremely catchy.
The Stooges and the New York Dolls helped pave the way, but this was the album that introduced the world to Punk Rock: fours dudes from Queens New York in matching jeans and black leather jackets singing songs about girls, glue-sniffing and beating up brats with baseball bats. Poetry!
The formula was simple yet effective: Johnny Ramone played three chords really fast (with no guitar solos) while singer Joey Ramone tried to keep up and cram all the lyrics in.
They released 14 albums over 20 years - all remarkably similar - but this is the best of the bunch by a long shot. "Hey Ho Let's Go" is Shakespeare for the ADD generation.