Rocket To Russia (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (CD3+LP)

CD1 REMASTERED ORIGINAL MIXES

1. Cretin Hop
2. Rockaway Beach
3. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
4. Locket Love
5. I Don't Care
6. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
7. We're A Happy Family
8. Teenage Lobotomy
9. Do You Wanna Dance?
10. I Wanna Be Well
11. I Can't Give You Anything
12. Ramona
13. Surfin' Bird
14. Why Is It Always This Way?
15. Cretin Hop (Tracking Mix)
16. Rockaway Beach (Tracking Mix)
17. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Tracking Mix)
18. Locket Love (Tracking Mix)
19. I Don't Care (Version 2) (Tracking Mix)
20. It’s a Long Way Back To Germany (Version 1) (Tracking Mix)
21. We're A Happy Family (Tracking Mix)
22. Teenage Lobotomy (Tracking Mix)
23. Do You Wanna Dance? (Tracking Mix)
24. I Wanna Be Well (Tracking Mix)
25. I Can't Give You Anything (Tracking Mix)
26. Ramona (Tracking Mix)
27. Surfin' Bird (Tracking Mix)
28. Why Is It Always This Way? (Tracking Mix)

CD2 MEDIA SOUND/POWER STATION ROUGH MIXES

1. Why Is It Always This Way? (Media Sound Rough, Alternate Lyrics)
2. Rockaway Beach (Power Station Rough)
3. I Wanna Be Well (Power Station Rough)
4. Locket Love (Power Station Rough)
5. I Can’t Give You Anything (Power Station Rough)
6. Cretin Hop (Power Station Rough)
7. Happy Family (Power Station Rough)
8. Ramona (Media Sound Rough, Alternate Lyrics)
9. Do You Wanna Dance? (Media Sound Rough)
10. Teenage Lobotomy (Media Sound Rough)
11. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Media Sound Rough)
12. I Don’t Care (Version 2) (Media Sound Rough)
13. It’s A Long Way Back To Germany (B-Side Version) (Bonus Mix)
14. Needles And Pins (Demo Version) (Bonus Mix)
15. Babysitter (B-Side Version) (Bonus Mix)
16. Joey RTR Radio promo (Bonus Mix)

CD3 LIVE AT APOLLO CENTRE, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, DECEMBER 19, 1977

1. Rockaway Beach
2. Teenage Lobotomy
3. Blitzkrieg Bop
4. I Wanna Be Well
5. Glad To See You Go
6. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
7. You’re Gonna Kill That Girl
8. I Don’t Care
9. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
10. Carbona Not Glue
11. Commando
12. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
13. Surfin’ Bird
14. Cretin Hop
15. Listen To My Heart
16. California Sun
17. I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You
18. Pinhead
19. Do You Wanna Dance?
20. Chain Saw
21. Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
22. Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy
23. Judy Is A Punk
24. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
25. We’re A Happy Family

LPA TRACKING MIX VERSIONS

1. Cretin Hop
2. Rockaway Beach
3. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
4. Locket Love
5. I Don't Care (Version 2)
6. It’s a Long Way Back to Germany (Version 1)
7. We're A Happy Family

LPB TRACKING MIX VERSIONS

1. Teenage Lobotomy
2. Do You Wanna Dance?
3. I Wanna Be Well
4. I Can't Give You Anything
5. Ramona
6. Surfin' Bird
7. Why Is It Always This Way?

Here we go! 3rd 40th Deluxe set. The Ramones were busy in 1977, with their 3rd album ‘Rocket To Russia’ released November that year. And voila: a 40th Anniversary Deluxe version of the album as the next in our Ramones series. Same hard bound book packaging, with 1LP and 3 CDs, and a booklet with new liner notes essays and photos. In terms of audio content, original Ramones’ engineer/mixer Ed Stasium has done a new “Tracking Mix” (basically stripped-back, raw and live version of the album, showing the power of Queens’ finest). This is paired with another remastered version of the original stereo mix. Disc 2 will have outtakes, rough mixes and rare tracks, including an early demo version of ‘Needles & Pins’ (with Tommy on drums), the b-side single mix of ‘Babysitter’, alternate versions of ‘It’s a Long Way Back to Germany’ (with Dee Dee on vocals), an original radio promo, plus a selection of rough mixes from the sessions at Media Sound, and the Power Station. In addition there will be an unreleased live show – recorded in Glasgow on multitrack - one of the concerts leading up to the ‘It’s Alive’ set (released on LP), which Ed Stasium will mix for this release. Liner notes and photos still to be 100% confirmed, but there will be a piece from Sire Records founder Seymour Stein, plus others. The deluxe box is, again, limited edition and individually numbered. Also echoing the Ramones’ 40th Anniversary editions, the slate of releases will include a 1CD in slipcase with stereo remaster. A new stand-alone vinyl version of the ‘Rocket to Russia’ LP, using the 2017 remastered stereo audio is scheduled to come in early 2018 (along with ‘Leave Home’ & ‘Ramones’). A RSD-piece to follow, of the live show from disc 3. ‘Rocket to Russia’ originally charted on release, at #49 in the Billboard albums, and was included in Rolling Stone’s ‘500 Greatest Albums of all Time’. After the left turn with the artwork on ‘Leave Home’, this album returned to Ramones’ tradition, with the cover again featuring a B&W band photo in front of a wall (this time taken by Danny Fields), and the album art also included drawings by Punk Magazine’s John Holmstrom. Last, but not least, ‘Rocket to Russia’ was also the final album featuring the classic Ramones’ line-up with Tommy on drums.