This year on Teenage Kicks, we've been celebrating a lot of the music released in 1978 -- 40 years ago, and a year of 'what's next?' following the upheaval brought on by punk rock. With their fourth album in three years, that September the Ramones put out "Road To Ruin" - which yielded one of their enduring classics - ("Twenty-, twenty-, twenty-four hours to go / I wanna be sedated" hook) - "Road to Ruin" was my first Ramones album, and was also the album where Tommy Ramone handed the drumsticks to Marky, they added some ballads and even - gasp - guitar solos to the mix! But despite critical acclaim, it only reached No. 103 on the U.S. album chart - nothing they tried would make them the superstars they deserved to be, as Boston's "Don't Look Back" and the soundtrack to "Grease" battled for No. 1 in the fall of '78. We'll make up for that slight as we feature The Ramones, "Road to Ruin," this week on Teenage Kicks.

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Playlist, hour 1

Playlist, hour 2