Rhino presents the first four Ramones albums in Dolby ATMOS on Blu-ray for the first time today with a new boxed set, 1!2!3!4! The Ramones Atmos Collection. Limited to 2,000 copies, it’s available exclusively at Rhino.com and WMG stores internationally and includes Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, and Road to Ruin. Order Now.
The Blu-ray Audio set also features each album’s original stereo mixes, now in hi-resolution. Ed Stasium—who originally engineered three of the albums—created the Atmos mixes for Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, and Road to Ruin. Craig Leon, who produced the band’s 1976 debut, contributed the Atmos mix for Ramones.
“These Atmos mixes present the Ramones’ recordings with the clarity and power with which I always imagined hearing them,” Stasium says. “It might sound a bit cliché, but I find listening to them to be like seeing the sequence from The Wizard of Oz where the film morphs from black & white to color. These Dolby Atmos mixes are transforming the original mixes from 16mm black & white into vivid IMAX!”
Formed in Queens, New York, the Ramones—Joey Ramone (vocals), Johnny Ramone (guitar), Dee Dee Ramone (bass), and Tommy Ramone (drums)—stripped rock to its core and helped ignite the punk movement. Their 1976 self-titled debut was fast, loud, and relentless, cutting through the era’s excess with buzzsaw guitars and a defiant attitude. Leave Home arrived soon after, delivering sharper pacing and a stronger sonic punch. Rocket to Russia built on that momentum, combining early rock ’n’ roll influences with a harder edge. By the time Road to Ruin arrived in 1978, Marky Ramone had joined on drums as the band embraced a more ambitious approach that carried their sound into new territory. The set highlights many of the band’s best-loved songs, including “Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker,” “I Wanna Be Sedated,” and “Rockaway Beach.”
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