Live: Ramones + Dicks

The Ramones are the first punk rock band. Other bands, such as the Stooges and the New York Dolls, came before them and set the stage and aesthetic for punk, and bands that immediately followed, such as the Sex Pistols, made the latent violence of the music more explicit, but the Ramones crystallized the musical ideals of the genre. By cutting rock & roll down to its bare essentials -- four chords; a simple, catchy melody; and irresistibly inane lyrics -- and speeding up the tempo considerably, the Ramones created something that was rooted in early '60s, pre-Beatles rock & roll and pop but sounded revolutionary. Since their breakthrough was theoretical as well as musical, they comfortably became the leaders of the emerging New York punk rock scene. While their peers such as Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads, and Richard Hell all were more intellectual and self-consciously artistic than the Ramones, they nevertheless appealed to the same mentality because of the way they turned rock conventions inside out and celebrated kitschy pop culture with stylized stupidity. The band's first four albums set the blueprint for punk, especially American punk and hardcore, for the next two decades. And the Ramones themselves were major figures for the next two decades, playing essentially the same music without changing their style much at all. Although some punk diehards -- including several of their peers -- would have claimed the band's long career wound up undercutting the ideals the band originally stood for, the Ramones always celebrated not just the punk aesthetic, but the music itself.

Ramones - Live Concerts

The Dicks come from Austin, Tx, and were the pioneers of American underground punk music in the eighties. In that time they released two albums, Kill From The Heart and These People. In 1997, the punk label Alternative Tentacles realesed the compilation Dicks: 1980-1986 that includes the band's greatest hits.

The Dicks - Live At Rauls

Bonus:
The Ceasars (Ceasars Palace) - Love For The Streets
Gluecifer - Basement Apes
Saint Etienne - Smash The System
Doves - The Last Broadcast
David Bowie - Heathen
Bryan Ferry - Frantic
David Sylvian - Camphor
Billy Bragg And The Blokes - England, Half English
Joe Cocker, Craig Armstrong, Roger Waters, Niel Young, The Kinks, etc.
+ Alternative Metal Albums
[CODE]http://4me.ru/mp3.enough/
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World + Chutes Too Narrow
[CODE]http://www.headhook.com/~jjdonald/THESHINS/
[CODE]http://www.sonic.net/~juston/the%20shins/
Audioslave - Out Of Exile
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Kasabian - Kasabian
The Crystal Method - Vegas + Legion Of Boom
[CODE]http://www.flikmedia.com/Music/
Radiohead - Ok Computer
[CODE]http://jukashi.com/mp3/ok%20computer/
Karnivool - Themata
Wolfmother EP
[CODE]http://www.users.on.net/~psidey/Music/?S=A
Maroon 5 - Albums
[CODE]http://www.schmoyota.com/music/
Hip Hop Albums: 2Pac, Eminem, 50 Cent, etc.
[CODE]http://www.domaintechnics.de/music/