Holes In My Tape Collection: The Ramones

I was reflecting on Steve Albini’s death (like a lot of the music world has been doing) and listening to his 20 favorite songs.


One of them is “I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement” by The Ramones from their 1977 self-titled album. It helped me realize that I do not possess this album, in any format, let alone cassette.

I need to fix this soon.


P.S. For a Steve Albini story you very likely haven’t heard, check out my friend Joshua Tehee’s local music newsletter where he tells the story of how a Fresno band was fortunate enough to have Albini engineer one of their albums.