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“Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio” by The Ramones
“Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio” by The Ramones appears on 18 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 1988 and 2025. Its best result is #192 on the WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,189 alternative song of all time.
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"Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?" opens End of the Century, the Ramones' fifth studio album, and Sire released it as a single on May 16, 1980. This is the Phil Spector record, the band's bid for the big time: saxophone and organ push in alongside the guitar, bass and drums, and the whole thing is stitched together from the rock and pop the band grew up on.
The title's question is the point. The song takes a swipe at the state of mainstream rock at the time and reaches back to the roots for a cure. The album took its name from one of its lines, and so, much later, did the 2003 documentary End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones. Its opening riff even turned up in the trailers for Shrek the Third.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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