The latter again landed them in trouble, getting the album withdrawn and re-released with an alternative track (the b-side, Babysitter).īut alongside the heady rush of the full-on approach was 'da brudders' love of 60s surf-pop and Phil Spector romanticism. Subject matter-wise it was business as usual, with songs about fairground freaks (Pinhead), right-wing militarism (Commando), mental illness (Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment), misogyny (Glad To See You Go) and low rent drug abuse (Carbona Not Glue) all served with a good dose of humour. Tommy Bongiovi (second cousin to Jon Bon Jovi, fact fans) had won his engineer's spurs with no one less than Jimi Hendrix, and his production, while only taking off a few of the edges, allowed the band to refine their sound. For starters the studio budget had gone up allowing the band to get a smoother sound and a better producer. But it's far from a carbon copy of its predecessor.
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With most of the material written at the same time as their debut and having been performed live for over twelve months (how else would they have made up a full hour-long set list?), Leave Home is more of the same. It contained another 14 tracks of three-minute-or-less, three-chord dumbness. Thus, it was nearly a year later that their follow-up finally hit the shelves – the title referencing the fact that, following their UK tour, the band were now world-travellers. It took a good year for the band's reputation to spread beyond the environs of New York, so far ahead of their time were they.
"Carbona Not Glue" was restored to its original position in the running order for the 2001 expanded edition of Leave Home, and the deluxe 40th anniversary edition included additional mixes of the track.Always lumped in with the class of '77 in terms of punk's first wave, The Ramones first album had actually been unleashed very early in 1976. Records (who had bought the label), yet another version of the album was released, with "Babysitter" being replaced by " Sheena Is a Punk Rocker", then a non-LP single already planned to be on the next Ramones album in a different mix. When Sire Records suddenly switched distributors from ABC Records to Warner Bros. Most collectors believe that the "Babysitter" version is rarer than the "Carbona" version. On the British version, "Babysitter" is not listed on the back cover or inner sleeve, but it is listed on the label. The album was re-released with the outtake "Babysitter", which was also released as the B-side of "Do You Wanna Dance?", in its place.
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However, the song was deleted from the album to avoid a potential lawsuit, as Carbona was a corporate trademark. The original release of Leave Home included "Carbona Not Glue" as the fifth track on the album. It's absurd, like saying that you should try something more poisonous." It was featured prominently in the graphic novel Ghost World by Dan Clowes. In the hardcover book included in some versions of Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology, Tommy Ramone says, "Something like 'Carbona Not Glue' has to be tongue-in-cheek. The band sarcastically suggested that the high obtained from sniffing Carbona cleaning solvent was more pleasurable than that of airplane glue. "Carbona Not Glue" is a follow-up to " Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", a song that appeared on their first album. " Carbona Not Glue" is a song by the Ramones from their second album, Leave Home (1977).
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