Every Ramones fan knows the band was made up of weirdos. That’s a big part of why we loved them. Joey was a beanpole geek, Johnny a mop-topped grump, Dee Dee a streetwise cartoon boyÑthey were a lot like the screwed-up teenagers that we were. Of course, they also blew away the reigning “classic rock” genre with their two-minute buzzsaw rants. We laughed at their songs about sniffing glue and beating on brats–then wondered if they were perhaps serious. As End of the Century shows, yes, they probably were. Even fans, though, will be surprised to learn the extent of their dysfunction as revealed in this lengthy warts-and-all rockumentary.
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