The often-repeated suggestion that The KKK Took My Baby Away is Joey Ramones' deliciously barbed response to his ex-girlfriend Linda switching her romantic interest to his politically conservative bandmate Johnny may be apocryphal, but it's a great story and an even better song, and no-one wants pesky reality to get in the way here. But with spiralling issues with drugs and alcohol exacerbating internecine strife, the group lacked focus, and the mild-mannered Pleasant Dreams lacked both cohesion and snap, except on its obvious highlight. "But it didn’t happen that way.”Īfter the nakedly-commercial, Phil Spector-produced End Of The Century gave the band their highest ever US chart position (peaking at number 44), Sire Records pushed Da Bruddahs to broaden their appeal and truly shoot for a mainstream breakthrough. "They originally thought that their songs were so good that they’d sell five million copies of their first album, and then be able to retire rich, and never have to bother with one another again," original manager Danny Fields told this writer in 2016. They may be posthumously viewed as punk rock's kings of the outcasts, misfits, freaks and geeks, but back in the day, Ramones wanted to be massive. Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away (Pleasant Dreams, 1981)
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