“Too Tough to Die” by The Ramones

"Too Tough to Die" is the title song of the Ramones' eighth album, out October 1, 1984, and Dee Dee Ramone wrote it, words and music, though Joey Ramone sings it. Johnny Ramone plays guitar, Dee Dee bass and Richie Ramone drums; the album was Richie's first with the band. Behind the desk was a familiar face: ex-member Tommy Ramone, producing with Ed Stasium and credited as Erdelyi, while Stasium also engineered.

The whole record was the band heading back to their roots, made much the way they'd made their 1976 debut and leaning toward punk and heavy metal rather than the pop that had coloured several albums before it. Critics cheered the return to the old ways. The buyers didn't show up: at that point it was the band's lowest-charting album on the Billboard 200.

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