Continuum's pocket-sized 33 1/3 series has been praised by everybody from the New York Times to Vice Magazine and consistently features some of the top music critics around. Each volume in the series revisits and breaks down (in meticulous detail) a classic album, giving up every piece of inside info you could want, from recording techniques to the inspirations behind the songs themselves. This volume dissects the Ramones' self-titled album, the definition of a classic punk album, as written by Nicholas Rombes (Exquisite Corpse, McSweeney's). 120 pages.

reviewed by Larri Byrd