Maybe, just maybe, a dose of power-chord caffeinated Ramones music remixed into Dolby Atmos surround sound will be what the doctor ordered for immersive leaning rockers in 2025. Gabba Gabba Hey!
I know that even considering the possibility of hearing The Ramones in multi-channel surround sound wasn’t ever on my conceptual radar so frankly, this news kinda twisted my mind (in a good way!) just reading the press release when it crossed my desk. But, here we have it: the four initial, seminal, mid-1970s Ramones albums have been remixed into Dolby Atmos surround sound!
While we have not yet heard these mixes, stay tuned for more rock ‘n roll radio Ramones news as we hope to get our hands on one of these boxed sets for an upcoming review. I’m intrigued at the prospect of bringing some of that New York, lower East Side, CBGBs-inspired, street power to the Atmos universe. That original Ramones album engineers Craig Leon and Ed Stasium have driven much of this project is compelling: do take note of Mr. Stasium’s quote below in the news update as offered from Rhino Records’ official announcement yesterday:
Rhino presents the first four Ramones albums in Dolby Atmos on Blu-ray for the first time today with a new boxed set, 1!2!3!4! The Ramones Atmos Collection. Limited to 2,000 copies, it’s available exclusively at Rhino.com and WMG stores internationally and includes Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, and Road to Ruin. Order Now.
The Blu-ray Audio set also features each album’s original stereo mixes, now in hi-resolution. Ed Stasium—who originally engineered three of the albums—created the Atmos mixes for Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, and Road to Ruin. Craig Leon, who produced the band’s 1976 debut, contributed the Atmos mix for Ramones.
“These Atmos mixes present the Ramones’ recordings with the clarity and power with which I always imagined hearing them,” Stasium says. “It might sound a bit cliché, but I find listening to them to be like seeing the sequence from The Wizard of Oz where the film morphs from black & white to color. These Dolby Atmos mixes are transforming the original mixes from 16mm black & white into vivid IMAX!”
Formed in Queens, New York, the Ramones—Joey Ramone (vocals), Johnny Ramone (guitar), Dee Dee Ramone (bass), and Tommy Ramone (drums)—stripped rock to its core and helped ignite the punk movement. Their 1976 self-titled debut was fast, loud, and relentless, cutting through the era’s excess with buzzsaw guitars and a defiant attitude. Leave Home arrived soon after, delivering sharper pacing and a stronger sonic punch. Rocket to Russia built on that momentum, combining early rock ’n’ roll influences with a harder edge. By the time Road to Ruin arrived in 1978, Marky Ramone had joined on drums as the band embraced a more ambitious approach that carried their sound into new territory. The set highlights many of the band’s best-loved songs, including “Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker,” “I Wanna Be Sedated,” and “Rockaway Beach.”
1-2-3-4! THE RAMONES ATMOS COLLECTION
4BR Track Listing
Ramones (1976)
- “Blitzkrieg Bop”
- “Beat On The Brat”
- “Judy Is A Punk”
- “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend”
- “Chain Saw”
- “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue”
- “I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement”
- “Loudmouth”
- “Havana Affair”
- “Listen To My Heart”
- “53rd & 3rd”
- “Let’s Dance”
- “I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You”
- “Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World”
Leave Home (1977)
- “Glad To See You Go”
- “Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment”
- “I Remember You”
- “Oh Oh I Love Her So”
- “Carbona Not Glue”
- “Suzy Is A Headbanger”
- “Pinhead”
- “Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy”
- “Swallow My Pride”
- “What’s Your Game”
- “California Sun”
- “Commando”
- “You’re Gonna Kill That Girl”
- “You Should Never Have Opened That Door”
Rocket to Russia (1977)
- “Cretin Hop”
- “Rockaway Beach”
- “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow”
- “Locket Love”
- “I Don’t Care”
- “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker”
- “We’re A Happy Family”
- “Teenage Lobotomy”
- “Do You Wanna Dance?”
- “I Wanna Be Well”
- “I Can’t Give You Anything”
- “Ramona”
- “Surfin’ Bird”
- “Why Is It Always This Way?”
Road to Ruin (1978)
- “I Just Want To Have Something To Do”
- “I Wanted Everything”
- “Don’t Come Close”
- “I Don’t Want You”
- “Needles And Pins”
- “I’m Against It”
- “I Wanna Be Sedated”
- “Go Mental”
- “Questioningly”
- “She’s The One”
- “Bad Brain”
- “It’s A Long Way Back”
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Ian White
June 29, 2025 at 7:07 am
I think they played one of their first gigs at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch. Joey’s grave in NJ became a tourist attraction. Jeff Hyman. BD’E.
IW