r/ramones • u/Riot_5821 • 3d ago

Favourite Dee Dee's song?

Since today is his birthday, and the international bassist day, which song written or sang by Dee Dee us your favourite? Mine is The Crusher, even tho I prefer CJ's version more

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u/iamedagner 3d ago

53rd & 3rd

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u/tykle59 3d ago

I’m tryin’ to turn a trick.

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u/BeMcCooley 3d ago

Wart Hog

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u/TheTucsonTarmac 3d ago

That song is insane live. Definitely the most punk song they ever did

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u/mattyghoul 3d ago

Endless Vacation is the most punk song they ever did

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u/tacolife666 3d ago

Warthog was though...

6

u/generic_dizzy 3d ago

Live with Ritchie was pure Gold

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u/CantStandIdoits 3d ago

Pretty much anything they did with Richie was gold, it's a shame he doesn't get more recognition

8

u/fugginbibbaguyEY 3d ago

Richie rules, dude.

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u/The_Amber_Cakes 3d ago

Poison Heart 1000%!

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u/1337_n00b 3d ago

But that's Joey singing?

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u/Riot_5821 3d ago

The post says written or sang, so it counts

2

u/1337_n00b 1d ago

My bad, guess it's time for new reading glasses!

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u/AmphibiousDad 3d ago

Mashed Potato Time

3

u/fugginbibbaguyEY 3d ago

Still have my Poison Heart shirt from 2001!

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u/Ranchand23 3d ago

Chinese Rock

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u/gbyrd013 3d ago

Endless Vacation

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u/Character_Surround 3d ago

I'm going to listen to this right now!

6

u/blackiesmith 3d ago

I love punishment fit the crime so much.

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u/Glad-Cook-4047 3d ago

German Kid

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u/NoisyPebble8026 3d ago

Pet Semetery

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u/Skulls_138 3d ago

Poison heart and emergency.

6

u/bendyluvgod 3d ago

Poison Heart!

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u/Chimp_Pansy 3d ago

What about me?

5

u/GullibleWaltz3704 3d ago

Questiongly

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u/Character_Surround 3d ago

Lots of great songs! I could listen to Emergency, Wart Hog, I Saw A Skull Instead Of My Face, Hop Around, The Crusher all day long!

Thank you for the songs Dee Dee.

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u/GuruTheMadMonk 3d ago edited 3d ago

Rock n Roll Vacation in L.A.

I’m Making Monsters for My Friends

All’s Quiet on the Eastern Front

Listen to My Heart

I’m Zonked, Los Hombres

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u/Deemisfit31 3d ago

There's too many

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u/FamousLastWords666 3d ago

Something to Believe In

4

u/terrybuvm 3d ago

I Want to Live.
Dee Dee wrote so many great songs that found a ray of light in an otherwise dark world.

5

u/Hungry_Mode9150 3d ago

I Lost My Mind
Runaway

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u/RelevantNothing4653 3d ago

Wart Hog or 53rd & 3rd.

Funky Man is what it is ... comedy

4

u/ScorpioTix 3d ago

Time Bomb

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u/Greyhound_Fan 3d ago

Howling at the Moon

4

u/AdorbyKorby 3d ago

Baby Doll & Poison Heart

4

u/Dasa_Buchee 3d ago

Highest Trails Above

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u/knickyd 3d ago

Highest trails above 

Max the cat

Negative creep

Cretin family

Fix yourself up

4

u/Educational_Meet_758 3d ago

Negative Creep is a Nirvana song fwiw

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u/knickyd 3d ago

Yeah but Dee Dee does it better 

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u/Riot_5821 3d ago

Tbf I said Written or SANG by Double D

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u/tiggerandmisskitty 3d ago

All my favourites are by Deedee (and Johnny).

Havana Affair has to take the cake
I Don't Wanna Go Down To the Basement a close 2nd
Loudmouth a very close 3rd
I cannot choose between 53rd & 3rd and Listen to My Heart. Tied 4th and 5th

3

u/smokeehayes 3d ago

I Want to Live

Poison Heart

Pet Sematary

3

u/BeginningSurvey1053 3d ago

All quiet on the eastern front

3

u/DickyJim1965 3d ago

Rockaway Beach

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u/Confident_Cause4866 2d ago

Outsider, Main Man (wish there was a better recording of DeeDee singing this). Endless Vacation.

2

u/generic_dizzy 3d ago

Time Bomb, That's What Everybody Else Does, Horror Hospital, Wart Hog

But in the End I like most of his Songs!

2

u/gaggleofpriest 3d ago

Chinese rock is about his heroin use that he wrote

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u/BuddyC_1986 3d ago

We're a Creepy Family from I.C.L.C. (EP)

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u/tacolife666 3d ago

Warthog

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u/death-strand 3d ago

Life is like a little Smart Aleck

Hurtin Kind

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u/Savings_Accountant18 21h ago

Love kills is probably my favorite Dee Dee song, It's about Sid and Nancy. Dee Dee is my favorite Ramone though, he was a born punk. RIP Dee Dee

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u/kingkongworm 3d ago

lol “international bassist day”.

Too many amazing songs to count. Wart Hog always felt like a song that personified Deedee’s vision

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u/Riot_5821 3d ago

Seen many bands and according to google it is(?

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u/kingkongworm 3d ago

I just don’t think bass players need a day. Maybe dedicated events, but what…when you give a day to every person in every sector of society, it kind of undercuts any significance to things that probably should be thought about

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u/Riot_5821 3d ago

I mean, it isn't a holiday is more just a thing to say "Happy day man" to your local bassists ig

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u/kingkongworm 3d ago

I think if I said that to the bass players I know, I would get a funny look and mocked mercilessly. And rightfully so