Brain Drain (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Brain Drain
Type = Album
Artist = The Ramones

Released = May 23 1989
Recorded = December 1988
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 35:02
Label = Sire
Producer = Jean Beauvoir,
Bill Laswell,
Daniel Rey
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tl5h8qztbtz4~T1 link]
*Robert Christgau (B) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=ramones link]
Last album = "Halfway to Sanity"
(1987)
This album = "Brain Drain"
(1989)
Next album = "Loco Live"
(1991)

"Brain Drain" is a 1989 album by the Ramones (see 1989 in music). Released on May 23 of that year, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tl5h8qztbtz4~T1 AMG review] . Allmusic. URL accessed June 2 2006] it is the last to feature bass player Dee Dee Ramone, and the last studio album on Sire Records. It contains the single "Pet Sematary", written for the Stephen King movie of the same name. The single became one of the Ramones' biggest radio hits, and a staple in their concerts during the 1990's.

Dee Dee wrote in his autobiography, "Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones":

:It was tough recording the "Brain Drain" album because everyone took their shit out on me. I dreaded being around them. It drove me away--I didn't even end up playing on the album. Everybody in the band had problems; girlfriend problems, money problems, mental problems.

ongs

"Palisades Park" is a cover song, originally recorded by Freddy Cannon in 1962.

Track listing

# "I Believe in Miracles" – 3:19 (Dee Dee Ramone, Daniel Rey)
# "Zero Zero UFO" – 2:25 (Dee Dee Ramone, Daniel Rey)
# "Don't Bust My Chops" – 2:28 (Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Daniel Rey)
# "Punishment Fits the Crime" – 3:05 (Dee Dee Ramone, Richie Stotts)
# "All Screwed Up" – 3:59 (Joey Ramone, Andy Shernoff, Marky Ramone, Daniel Rey)
# "Palisades Park" – 2:22 (Charles Barris)
# "Pet Sematary" – 3:30 (Dee Dee Ramone, Daniel Rey)
# "Learn to Listen" – 1:50 (Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Marky Ramone, Daniel Rey)
# "Can't Get You Outta My Mind" – 3:21 (Joey Ramone)
# "Ignorance Is Bliss" – 2:38 (Joey Ramone, Andy Shernoff)
# "Come Back, Baby" – 4:01 (Joey Ramone)
# "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)" – 2:04 (Joey Ramone)
# "Pet Sematary" (Bill Laswell version, bonus track on 2006 reissue)

Credits

Ramones

*Joey Ramone - lead vocals
*Johnny Ramone - guitar
*Dee Dee Ramone - bass, backing vocals
*Marky Ramone - drums

Additional musicians

*Andy Shernoff - bass on "All Screwed Up", "Ignorance Is Bliss"
*Artie Smith - additional guitars
*Robert Musso - additional guitars

Production

*Jean Beauvoir - producer
*Bill Laswell - producer
*Daniel Rey - producer, musical coordinator
*Gary "Muddbone" Cooper - production assistant
*Mark Sidgwick - production assistant
*Nicky Skopelitis - production assistant
*Kim White - production assistant
*Robert Musso - engineer, mixing
*Martin Bisi - assistant engineer
*Oz Fritz - assistant engineer
*Judy Kirschner - assistant engineer
*Robbie Norris - assistant engineer
*Jason Corsaro - mixing
*Howard Weinberg - mastering
*George DuBose - artwork, coordination
*Matt Mahurin - artwork

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Notes and references