Album · The Ramones
Leave Home by The Ramones
Leave Home is an album by The Ramones, released in 1977. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 8 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Pinhead”, on 2 lists with a best position of #23.
Leave Home, the Ramones' second album, hit the racks on Sire on January 10, 1977, and anybody hoping the Forest Hills gang had grown up in the meantime can forget it. Tony Bongiovi and drummer Tommy Ramone produced, and the formula stays gloriously intact: Johnny's buzzsaw guitar, Dee Dee's bass, Tommy's relentless beat and Joey's gawky croon, with poppier tunes rubbing shoulders with loud, distorted blasts like "Pinhead" and "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment".
The critics mostly dug it, though plenty grumbled that it sounded an awful lot like the first one, only funnier and less of a shock. There was trouble, too: "Carbona Not Glue" got yanked for fear it infringed the stain remover's trademark, and "Babysitter" took its place in Britain while American copies got "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker". Arturo Vega's back-cover design went on to become the band's logo, and for all the noise the record only scraped to 148 on the Billboard 200.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Leave Home on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pinhead | 2 | #23 | – | 1977–2026 | |
| 2 | Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment | 5 | #668 | – | 2007–2022 | |
| 3 | California Sun | 1 | #1155 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.