Top/ Rocket to Russia (Sire) is the third album by the Ramones. Released on November 4, 1977, the album incorporates surf rock and other influences. It includes some of the Ramones' best-known songs, including "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker", "Teenage Lobotomy" and "Rockaway Beach". Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, the Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first punk rock group. In the early 1970s, a new music scene emerged in New York when many bands started to play in clubs on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, such as Max's Kansas City and most famously CBGB's. The songs the Ramones played were very fast and very short; most clocked in at under two minutes. The Ramones' minimalist, loud, fast musical style was influenced by pop music that the band members grew up listening to in the 1950s and 1960s, such as The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Ronettes, the Rolling Stones as well as what are now known as proto-punk bands like The Stooges and the New York Dolls. Touring virtually non-stop for 22 years, the band's three founding members —Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone— died within eight years of the break-up in 1996. Bottom/ Recorded in 1993, towards the end of the Ramones' career, the album Acid Eaters (Radioactive) is often set apart from other Ramones releases in that it is entirely composed of covers. Unlike other punk bands of their time, such as the equally popular Sex Pistols or Blondie, the Ramones embraced some of the music from their childhood and welcomed it into their own unique sound. Acid Eaters forms a musical tribute to the Ramones' 60s favourites.
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