Description

Label: Sire Records

Vinyl Release Date: 01 03 2025

Original Release Date: 10 01 1984

Variant: Vinyl LP

The Ramones’ Too Tough To Die is often positioned as a return to form for the band, but today, forty years since its release, their eighth studio album seems worthy of a far more radical categorization. In the musical landscape of the mid-1980s, the album was incoherent — not in a pejorative sense, but in how it reflected the paradoxes of its time. Made without a steady compass, the album’s incongruity became its center, and it holds. As Joey Ramone said in a 1988 interview: “Around ’84, the world was changing drastically with Iran and Gadaffi and all this stuff. Things were getting scary. So, our songs started changing.”

Tracklist:

1. Mama s Boy

2. I m Not Afraid of Life

3. Too Tough To Die

4. Durango

5. Wart Hog

6. Danger Zone

7. Chasing The Night

8. Howling At The Moon (Sha-La-La)

9. Daytime Dilemma (Dangers Of Love)

10. Planet Earth

11. Human Kind

12. Endless Vacation

13. No Go