Happiness is the Ramones 1992 It's Gonna Be Alright

 

Happiness is I Wanna Be Sedated, Ramones 1978, especially these days

 

I used to make a livin' man, pickin' the banana

I don't wanna walk around with you . . .

. . . Try the dog.

No Valentine's Day would be complete without the Ramones singing "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You"

Here.

Happiness is Dee Dee and Tommy Ramone performing Cretin Hop December 31, 1977

Hey Johnny, Hey Dee Dee . . . Little Tom and Joey . . .

Here.

Happiness is the Ramones' Suzy is a Headbanger

Here.

Tommy Ramone was a mensch

From the Tyler Evans interview with Tommy Ramone in 2012, here:

Mickey Leigh announced that Joey Ramone’s second posthumous album …Ya Know? is coming out at the end of May. I couldn’t help but notice that you’re not one of the producers on the record.

It’s just so heart wrenchingly sad that Joey’s not around. I didn’t think I was up to it. It was just too heart-breaking. It would have just been emotionally so hard for me, because working on a record, the way I work; I get very into it, very intense. I just found it overwhelming, ya know?

Did you get a chance to talk to all of the guys before they passed?

Oh yeah. I talked to them all the time, especially Johnny and Joey. Dee Dee I didn’t, Dee Dee was fine, ya know? What happened with Dee Dee was really freaky. Joey was sick and Johnny was sick, and I talked to them … sad times, very sad times. Those guys are with me all the time, which is why it would have been so hard to work on that record.

If you don’t mind me asking, what do you miss the most about them?

It’s like family, ya know? It’s an emotional thing, they’re always with me. They’re just so much a part of my life that it’s like missing a part of you, a big part of you. Just their personalities, it was so intense really, the relationships. In a sense, they’re always there. It just surrounds me all the time.

What a rotten day: Tommy Ramone has died

The last of the original four.

"[The Ramones] gave everything they could in every show. They weren't the type to phone it in, if you see what I mean."

-- Tommy Ramone, 2007

What I got for Father's Day

I'm grinnin'.

Joey Ramone: We never wanted to play rap or some crap like that

See him say it, here, just make sure to dial it back to the beginning. He says it beginning at about 2:15 or so.