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Track Listing
1. Journey to the Center of the Mind
2. Substitute - (with Pete Townshend)
3. Out of Time
4. Shape of Things to Come, The
5. Somebody to Love - (with Traci Lords)
6. When I Was Young
7. 7 and 7 Is
8. My Back Pages
9. Can't Seem to Make You Mine
10. Have You Ever Seen the Rain
11. I Can't Control Myself
12. Surf City
Album Notes
The Ramones: Joey Ramone (vocals); Johnny Ramone (guitar); C.J. Ramone (vocals, bass); Marky Ramone (drums).
Additional personnel: Joe McGinty (keyboards); Pete Townshend (background vocals); Sebastian Bach, Traci Lords.
Recorded at Baby Monster Studio and Chung King House Of Metal, New York, New York.
Ther Ramones: Joey Ramone (vocals); Johnny Ramone (guitar); C.J. Ramone (vocals, bass); Joe McGinty (keyboards); Marky Ramone (drums).
Additional personnel: Pete Townshend (vocals).
ACID EATERS contains cover versions of songs by The Amboy Dukes, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Max Frost & The Troopers, Jefferson Airplane, The Animals, Arthur Lee & Love, Bob Dylan, The Seeds, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Troggs, and Jan & Dean.
The Ramones have been playing the same great tune for almost 20 years, and ACID EATERS is no exception. The only catch being that here they play the same great tune with 12 cover versions. Romping, stomping and breathing their own particular Ramonecentricities into these songs, this record acknowledges the tremendous debt that punk owes to 60s rock. Nonetheless, the blood that pumps through these tracks is pure punk--pure Ramones punk. What other band would dare turn the beautiful desolation of "Have You Ever Seen The Rain" into an exuberant, supercharged punk anthem?
Industry Reviews
3 Stars - Good - ...supercharged covers of the music that influenced them...fondly revisiting the proto-grunge of '60s gods...the rockers smoke, but it's the riskier picks that surprise...
Rolling Stone (03/10/1994)
...the Ramones' simplicity remains particularly deceptive...the Ramones toss away more hooks than most bands have in their repertoire...ACID EATERS [is] perhaps [the Ramones'] most perfectly realized effort...a non-stop compendium of grasp-and-hold anthems, rendered with loving devotion....
Musician (02/01/1994)
...[ACID EATERS is] all '60s-punk cover versions ...[the] smartest songs...are about getting older, which the Ramones have been doing for years. But they're making more playable albums at this stage than anyone would've predicted....
Spin (02/01/1994)
...the Ramones have always been the ultimate '60s band. No surprise then that this collection of covers from that decade sounds like an aural love letter bashed out in a garage on a rainy day.... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (01/14/1994)
...the Ramones have always been the ultimate '60s band. No surprise then that this collection of covers from that decade sounds like an aural love letter bashed out in a garage on a rainy day.... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (01/14/1994)
...[ACID EATERS is] all '60s-punk cover versions ...[the] smartest songs...are about getting older, which the Ramones have been doing for years. But they're making more playable albums at this stage than anyone would've predicted....
Spin (02/01/1994)
4 stars out of 5 - [T]hey sound relaxed, melodic - easily their best album in a decade.
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