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Great Forgotten Songs #98 – Ramones “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)”
This Ramones song is from their 1989 album Brain Drain, their eleventh studio album. It is the last release to feature bassist/lyricist/vocalist Dee Dee Ramone, the first release to feature Marky Ramone since his firing after Subterranean Jungle, and the last studio album on Sire Records.
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“Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)” was included in the movie soundtrack Christmas With The Kranks.
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Despite being featured on the album, Dee Dee did not play any bass and several session musicians played instead. About the making of the album, 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.
Dee Dee Ramone talked about the album in his autobiography:
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.
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