Pre-Rancid ska-punk legends perform sub-rancid live renditions of six Ramones songs, captured for posterity on a tape recorder buried in a pile of dirt across the street.

LEAST APPROPRIATE PUNNY TITLE

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What?

Was Dark Side of Ramone already taken?

MOST HILARIOUSLY BOTCHED TRIBUTE Start of the Century, by Marky Ramone: The second disc of this two-CD collection finds the drummer covering 18 songs by his former band and including the same piece of stage patter before two of them. Unfortunately for “Chinese Rocks,” that piece of stage patter is “Anyway, we got one more song for ya, and I guess you all know which one—‘Blitzkrieg Bop.’ ”

MOST POORLY TRANSLATED TRIBUTE Tocando Ramones: This Brazilian import includes covers of “Comando,” “Do You Remember and Rock ’N’ Roll Radio,” “I Know Better Know,” “Strenght to Endure,” “I Don’t Wanna to Grow Up,” and “Life Is a Gass.”

GREATEST NUMBER OF GOD-AWFUL
BAND NAMES
Ramones Maniacs: We’re looking at you,
Bracket, Yogurt, Napkin, Spazboy, Santa’s
Dead, the Young Hasselhoffs, Black Left
Pinky, Yanni Rotten, and Politically Erect.

GREATEST NUMBER OF BANDS THAT
CLEARLY DIDN’T EXIST BEFORE BEING
ASKED TO DO A RAMONES TRIBUTE
All Good Cretins Go to Heaven! A Tribute
to the Ramones: Where you’ll find
“Commando,” by the Commandos;
“Havana Affair,” by the Havana Affairs;
and two tracks by Ramone$ Mania.

MOST MISLEADING PACKAGING

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The front
cover of this Argentinean import boasts,
“Con integrantes de: Attaque 77, El Otro
Yo, Expulsados, Cadena Perpetua, Oconnor,
Flema Carajo, Katarro Vandaliko, Doble
Fuerza, Star Loosers, Superuva.” But a
quick look inside reveals that 21 of the 27
songs are performed by Mariano, Diego y
Ray! Talk about ripping off all the Cadena
Perpetua fans out there.

BEST TRIBUTE FOR ALL THE CADENA PERPETUA FANS OUT THERE

.. Which includes “Danny Says” as performed by Cadena Perpetua.

TRIBUTE WI TH THE GREATEST NUMBER OF ’80S PUNK LEGENDS PERFORMING IN NONLEGENDARY ’90S PUNK BANDS Gabba Gabba Hey: A Tribute to the Ramones: Starring such short-lived supergroups as Buglamp (featuring the Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris); Flower Leperds (featuring the Adolescents’ Tony Cadena); Metal Mike, Lisa & Julia (featuring Angry Samoans’ Mike Saunders); Pigmy Love Circus (featuring Black Flag’s Anthony Martinez); and the Agnews (featuring the Adolescents’ Frank and Rikk Agnew)

TRIBUTE WITH GREATEST NUMBER OF BANDS YOU’VE ACTUALLY HEARD OF We’re a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones: Thanks to Johnny Ramone’s industry contacts, this album features the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eddie Vedder, U2, Kiss, Garbage, and Pete

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