Acid Eaters


Acid Eaters is the thirteenth studio album by the American punk band the Ramones.
Released in 1993, towards the end of the Ramones' career, the album is the band's first and only album entirely composed of covers. Acid Eaters forms a musical tribute to the Ramones' favorite artists of the 1960s and highlights the influences the Ramones took from garage rock bands like the Seeds and the Amboy Dukes, as well as from popular bands such as the Beach Boys, the Who and the Rolling Stones.

Overview

Acid Eaters was not the first time that the Ramones had played or recorded cover songs, with the band having released cover versions on most of their albums, starting with a cover of Chris Montez's hit "Let's Dance" on their debut album. Other notable covers previously performed by the group include: the Rivieras' "California Sun" ; the Beach Boys' "Do You Wanna Dance?" ; the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird"; the Searchers' "Needles and Pins" ; the Ronettes' "Baby, I Love You"; the Music Explosion's "Little Bit O' Soul"; the Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today"; Freddy Cannon's "Palisades Park"; and the Doors' "Take It as It Comes."
Jan and Dean's "Surf City" had been performed live by the Ramones on one occasion on August 20, 1982, in New York City, but makes its studio debut here. The album features several guest singers on backing vocals, namely Pete Townshend on "Substitute," Sebastian Bach on "Out of Time" and Traci Lords on "Somebody to Love."
The Ramones promoted the album on the animated Cartoon Network talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast, in the first season episode entitled "Bobcat."

Track listing

The albus was reissued in 2006 by "Disky" as "The Ramones" with an different track order
1. "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?"
2. "Surf City"
3. "Out Of Time"
4. "Somebody To Love"
5. "Substitute"
6. "When I Was Young"
7. "The Shape Of Things To Come"
8. "7 And 7 Is"
9. "Can't Seem To Make You Mine"
10. "I Can't Control Myself"
11. "Journey To The Centre Of Mind"
12. "My Back Pages"

Personnel

Ramones
Additional musicians

Album