Joey Ramone Is Dead
Ok, so as I’m sure pretty much everyone is aware, Joey Ramone is dead as of Sunday I think. So I don’t really know how to feel. The Ramones have never been my favorite band. They always seemed disconnected from the youthful energy, anger, and politics that made punk rock important to me. Still, I’ve always enjoyed their music, and everyone must aknowledge the incredible contributions that the band made to music. Though one can argue on and on about the origins of punk, the Ramones, more than any other band brought punk to the forefront and spawned the genre that is so prominent today. But despite the significance of the Ramones, I find myself almost ambivalent to the passing of their frontman and if anything, more alarmed at my ambivalence then the actual death. Is it that we punks have become so acustomed to the fleetingness of punk rock icons via bands breaking up after a brief, raging spot upon the worlds stage? Unfortunately, it seems, the same thing that makes punk different, the fact that its purveyors aren’t rock stars, but average joes (or joeys) means that in the end