Acid Eaters by The Ramones

Acid Eaters, the Ramones' 13th studio album, came out in 1993, late in the game for the band, and it's the only record they ever made entirely out of other people's songs. Think of it as a thank-you note to the 1960s: garage-rock wildmen like the Seeds and the Amboy Dukes get the treatment alongside the Beach Boys, the Who and the Rolling Stones, the records that lit the fuse in Forest Hills in the first place.

By now the lineup was Joey on vocals, Johnny on guitar, Marky back behind the kit and C.J. on bass, and they play it the only way they know: fast, loud and stripped to the studs, every tune flattened into a Ramones buzz-saw. Their charge through "Substitute" is the one that has turned up on the countdowns. Three years later the band called it quits.

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