History Music / RoadToRuin

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "I Wanna Be Sedated" was written when Joey was treated in the hospital for burns on his face and in his throat as a result of an exploding kettle full of boiling water, which he had prepared to treat his sinuses. "It's A Long Way Back" was about Dee Dee's childhood in Germany.

''Road to Ruin'' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheRamones, released in 1978. It is their first album with Marky Ramone, who replaced founding member Tommy Ramone shortly after ''Music/RocketToRussia''. Tommy does co-produce this album, however.

* RefrainFromAssuming: "I'm Against It" is not a cover of the famous [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] song from ''Film/HorseFeathers''.

!! Sedated Tropes:

''Road to Ruin'' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheRamones, released in 1978. It is their first album with Marky Ramone, who replaced founding member Tommy Ramone shortly after ''Music/RocketToRussia''. Tommy does co-produce this album however.

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: "I Just Want Something To Do", where the bored protagonist longs for something more in life. "I Wanted Everything" Joey sings he wanted "everything" in life and had the world on his shoulder. Eventually he could bring his dreams into reality and sank off into a life of crime.

* IWantSong: "I Just Want Something To Do", "I Wanted Everything", "I Wanna Be Sedated". Subverted by "I Don't Want You" and "I'm Against It".
* ItsAllAboutMe and LackOfEmpathy: "I'm Against It".

* OutOfCharacterMoment: "Bad Brain" has a very strange interlude where weird sound effects are heard. For the Ramones this is pretty unusual.

''Road To Ruin'' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheRamones, released in 1978. It is their first album with Marky Ramone, who replaced founding member Tommy Ramone shortly after ''Music/RocketToRussia''. Tommy does co-produce this album however.

# "I Just Want To Have Something To Do" (2:42)

# "Needles And Pins" (2:21)

# "She's The One" (2:13)

# "It's A Long Way Back" (2:20)

# "Blitzkrieg Bop"/"Teenage Lobotomy"/"California Sun"/"Pinhead"/"She's The One" (11:00)

'''''Road To Ruin''''' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheRamones, released in 1978. It is their first album with Marky Ramone, who replaced founding member Tommy Ramone shortly after ''Music/RocketToRussia''. Tommy does co-produce this album however.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "I Wanna Be Sedated" was written when Joey was treated in the hospital for burns on his face and in his throat as a result of an exploding kettle full of boiling water, which he had prepared to treat his sinuses. "It's A Long Way Back" was about Dee Dee's childhood in Germany.

* BookEnds: Several songs are about wanting something and / or not wanting a particular thing. "I Wanna Be Sedated", "Go Mental" and "Bad Brain" are about mental illnesses.

* CoverSong: "Needles And Pins", a cover of Music/TheSearchers.

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# "Come Back, She Cried (aka I Walk Out)" (2:21)

* AccentuateTheNegative: "I'm Against It". Many lyrics on this album are about mental breakdown, breakups, frustration and boredom.

* BreakUpSong: "Questioningly" is about a relationship where Joey doesn't like a certain girl anymore. "Needles And Pins" are about a girl he thought liked her, but to his despair it was all an illusion.

# "Come Back, She Cried (aka I Walk Out)" (2:21)

* AlliterativeTitle: "'''R'''oad to '''R'''uin", "'''B'''ad '''B'''rain".
* AntiLoveSong: In "I Don't Want You" and "Don't Come Close" the protagonist rejects everyone. In "Questioningly" he tells a girl he doesn't love her any more.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: "I'm Against It"
--> ''I don't like Jesus freaks''.
* BigApplesauce: "I Just Want To Have Something To Do"

* BookEnds: Several songs are about wanting something and/or not wanting a particular thing. "I Wanna Be Sedated", "Go Mental" and "Bad Brain" are about mental illnesses.

* CallBack and ContinuityNod: In "Oh, Oh, I Love Her So" from ''Music/LeaveHome'' Joey Ramone sang how he met a girl at Burger King, while in "I'm Against It" he sings he is "against Burger King".
* CoverSong: "Needles And Pins", a cover of Music/TheSearchers.

* DirtyCommies: "I'm Against It"

--> ''(...) I don't like the Burger King''
* FaceOnTheCover: The band is featured prominently on the cover artwork.
* InstantSedation: "I Wanna Be Sedated", where the protagonist wants to immediate and quick sedation.
* IAmSong: "I'm Against It".

* ItsAllAboutMe and LackOfEmpathy: "I'm Against It"
--> ''All I care about is me''
* ListSong: "I'm Against It" voices a hate against politics, Communism, games, fun, Jesus freaks, circus geeks, summer, spring, anything, sex, drugs, waterbugs, poverty, ping pong, the Viet Cong and Burger King.
* LyricalDissonance: "Go Mental", a rollicking rock track about a man who went mentally insane

* NostalgiaFilter: "It's A Long Way Back" about Dee-Dee's years in Germany.
* OneWordTitle: "Questioningly".

* ProductPlacement: "I'm Against It"
--> ''I don't like Burger King''.

* RefrainFromAssuming: "I'm Against It" is not a cover of the famous [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] song from ''Film/HorseFeathers''.
* RichesToRags: "Bad Brain"

* SanitySlippage: "Go Mental", "I Wanna Be Sedated", where the protagonist is a patient in a mental hospital heavily in need for sedative drugs.

--> ''I don't like sex and drugs''
* ShoutOut:
** The punk band Music/BadBrains was named after the song "Bad Brain".
** The Music/{{Supergrass}} album ''Road To Rouen'' [[note]] Rouen is a French town [[/note]] appears to be a homage.
* StrawNihilist: "I'm Against It"
--> ''I don't like anything''
* SuperSpeed: "I Wanna Be Sedated"

--> ''Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane''
* TruckDriversGearChange: "I Wanna Be Sedated".

* ShoutOut: The Music/{{Supergrass}} album ''Road To Rouen'' [[note]] Rouen is a French town [[/note]] appears to be a homage.

* AntiLoveSong: "I Don't Want You", "Don't Come Close", "Questioningly".

* BreakUpSong: "Needles And Pins".

* DesignStudentsOrgasm and FanArt: The album cover, drawn by Ramones fan Gus Macdonald. John Holstrom later redrew the cover a bit to include Marky instead of Tommy.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: "I Just Want Something To Do", "I Wanted Everything".

* InstantSedation: "I Wanna Be Sedated".

* NostalgiaFilter: "It's A Long Way Back".

* SanitySlippage: "Go Mental", "I Wanna Be Sedated".

# "She's the One" (2:13)

* InstantSedation: "I Wanna Be Sedated".

'''Road To Ruin''' is the fourth album by Music/TheRamones, released in 1978. It was the first album to feature a new drummer, Marky Ramone, instead of Tommy Ramone, who had left.

The album was notable for featuring stuff not found on punk records in those days, such as guitar solos, acoustic rhythm guitars and ballads. The most famous song is "I Wanna Be Sedated", which is one of their [[SignatureSong signature songs]].

'''Tracklist'''

!! Sedated Tropes

* LyricalDissonance: "Go Mental", a rollicking rock track about a man who went mentall insane