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  Type Album
  Artist The Ramones
  Cover The Ramones Brain Drainjpg
  Released May 23 1989
  Recorded December 1988
  Genre Punk
  Length 35:02
  Label Sire Records
  Producer Jean Beauvoir ,<br> Bill Laswell ,<br> Daniel Rey
  Last Album '' Halfway To Sanity ''<br /> (1987)
  This Album '''''Brain Drain''''' <br /> (1989)
  Next Album '' Loco Live ''<br /> (1991)


''Brain Drain'' is a 1989 . URL accessed June 2 2006 it is the last to feature the bass player Dee Dee Ramone . 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.


TRACK LISTING

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


CREDITS


Ramones



Additional personnel

  • Martin Bisi - Assistant Engineer

  • Gary "Muddbone" Cooper - Production Assistant

  • Jason Corsaro - Mixing

  • George DuBose - Artwork, Coordination

  • Oz Fritz - Assistant Engineer

  • Judy Kirschner - Assistant Engineer

  • Bill Laswell - Producer

  • Matt Mahurin - Artwork

  • Robert Musso - Engineer, Mixing

  • Robbie Norris - Assistant Engineer

  • Daniel Rey - Producer, Musical Coordinator

  • Mark Sidgwick - Production Assistant

  • Nicky Skopelitis - Production Assistant

  • Howard Weinberg - Mastering

  • Kim White - Production Assistant



CHARTS

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)


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