"Road Rage" is a fun number with a quirky sound that resembles "The Monster Mash." Which reminds me that Marky did play on a version of said song for The Misfits' Jerry Only's little record entitled Misfits: Project 1950. In fact, Marky played drums on that entire album and also played piano, which leads me to believe he may have played keyboards on "Don't Blame Me" as well. On "Man Of God" we even get to hear Marky do the lead vocals, which are all right, but his drumming is where it's at.

Disk two is Marky's tribute to the band from which he takes his name, the Ramones. The disk has that fake recorded live sound, where you get Marky doing intros to songs and the crowd can be heard whistling and cheering, yet it just sounds too fake to be real. When he mentions some songs, the crowd's response doesn't change like it would at a true live performance.

The band sounds great and does a good job of the task at hand. This line-up is again completely different from the previous two on disk one. They play some "tuff" versions of Ramones' classics such as my favorite "53rd & 3rd," "Havana Affair," "Blitzkrieg Bop" as well as "Chinese Rocks" co-written by the aforementioned Richard Hell. Disk two is a solid collection of Ramones' tunes propelled by Marky's drumming. And as a special treat they play "Happy Birthday".

Both CDs are good examples of punk rock the way it should be played, at times loud, fast and hard, while on some tunes you can hear rocking sounds of the past. The 28 tracks on disk one move very quickly, as do the 18 on disk two. Marky shows that no matter what band he leads he holds them together very well; for a man who has been around the block quite a few times, his drumming still thunders loud and punk proud.

Written by Fantasma el Rey