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Charted: Nov. 26, 1977

Rating: 4.583 (average of 12 ratings)

Genre: punk rock

Quotable: Their debut album, “The Ramones, provided the blueprint…but third album, Rocket to Russia, perfected it” – Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Album Tracks:

  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?

Sales:

sales in U.S. only --
sales in U.K. only - estimated --
sales in all of Europe as determined by IFPI – click here to go to their site. --
sales worldwide - estimated --

Peak:

peak on U.S. Billboard album chart 49
peak on U.K. album chart 60

Singles/Hit Songs:

  • Sheena Is a Punk Rocker (5/21/77) #22 UK

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Awards:

Rated one of the top 1000 albums of all time by Dave’s Music Database. Click to learn more.

Rocket to Russia
Ramones
Review:
“The Ramones provided the blueprint and Leave Home duplicated it with lesser results, but the Ramones’ third album, Rocket to Russia, perfected it. Rocket to Russia boasts a cleaner production than its predecessors, which only gives the Ramones’ music more force. It helps that the group wrote its finest set of songs for the album. From the mindless, bopping opening of Cretin Hop and Rockaway Beach to the urban surf rock of Sheena Is a Punk Rocker and the ridiculous anthem Teenage Lobotomy, the songs are teeming with irresistibly catchy hooks; even their choice of covers, Do You Want to Dance? and Surfin’ Bird, provide more hooks than usual.” STE

“The Ramones also branch out slightly, adding ballads to the mix. Even with these (relatively) slower songs, the speed of the album never decreases. However, the abundance of hooks and slight variety in tempos makes Rocket to Russia the Ramones’ most listenable and enjoyable album – it doesn't have the revolutionary impact of The Ramones, but it’s a better album and one of the finest records of the late ‘70s.” STE

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Last updated March 4, 2011.