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The last album Dee Dee Ramone released in his drug-shortened lifetime, 2000's Hop Around is just sad, a pathetic mess made by a guy whose best work was over two decades in his past and who was reduced to Rutles-style imitations of those past glories. Seriously, there are songs here called "Now I Wanna Be Sedated," "I Don't Wanna Die in the Basement," and "38th and 8th," with lyrics and melodies that are just as self-plagiarizing. Chris Spedding's production and instrumental assistance gives the album a crisp '70s punk sheen that's actually rather nice on its own merits but which really only points up the complete lack of inspiration in the songs. Even a new version of the classic "Chinese Rocks" -- in retrospect probably the last decent song Dee Dee Ramone had a hand in writing -- sounds utterly perfunctory. Sad, really. ~ Stewart Mason
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Personnel: Dee Dee Ramone (vocals, guitar); Barbara Ramone (vocals, bass guitar); Chris Spedding (guitar, organ, Mellotron); Billy Rogers (drums).
Dee Dee Ramone Hop Around Songs | 1. | I Don't Wanna Die in the Basement | $0.99 | |
| 2. | Mental Patient | $0.99 | |
| 3. | Now I Wanna Be Sedated | $0.99 | |
| 4. | Rock & Toll Vacation in L.A. | |
| 5. | Set Out of This House | |
| 6. | 38th & 8th | $0.99 | |
| 7. | Nothin' | $0.99 | |
| 8. | Hop Around | $0.99 | |
| 9. | What About Me? | $0.99 | |
| 10. | I Saw a Skull Instead of My Face | $0.99 | |
| 11. | I Wanna You | $0.99 | |
| 12. | Master Plan | $0.99 | |
| 13. | Born to Lose | $0.99 | |
| 14. | Hurtin' Kind | $0.99 | |
| 15. | I'm Horrible | $0.99 | |
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