Ramones come Alive on new DVD

Thanks to the Ramones understanding that brevity is the soul of punk, live footage from 33 of their shows over 22 years fits on roughly four hours of Digital Versatile Disc. Slightly longer than a special edition Lord of the Rings movie and twice as epic, It's Alive: 1974-1996 hits shelves October 2 and features Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee and whoever's in the gang at the time singing "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" three times, "Blitzkrieg Bop" four times and "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" five freaking times. Besides that, there really isn't much repetition amongst the 119 songs, which span from the band's early CBGB shows to a stadium gig in Argentina.

And yet, much like the spray-tanned, turtle-necked host of an infomercial, I must emphasize that there's more. Particularly notable is previously unreleased footage from the 1977 Rainbow Theatre show released two years later as the album It's Alive.

The tracklist is here, just below the old school, flashing text, on what claims to be the "most large and extensive Ramones homepage since 1995."

Related links:
Ramones.com
Video: Ramones at CBGBs, 1974 Paste: "The Ramones served raw"

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