Title: Ramones – It’s Alive
Year/Genre/City: 1979, Punk Rock (Live), New York City, NY
Matrix #: N/A
Condition: VG+

Cultural Facts:

[Title Source]: The name nods to the 1974 horror film It’s Alive, part of the band’s long-running habit of borrowing from B-movie culture as a parallel “Ramones universe.”

[UK Proof]: The recordings come from a 1977 London show during the UK breakthrough window, capturing the moment British crowds treated them less like a New York curiosity and more like a movement’s reference point.

[Internal Strain]: Even as the band’s live reputation grew, the offstage reality was already tense—control, money, and personality clashes that would harden into the long resentment that defined their later years.