Songs with Ramones references

• Lemmy Kilmister, from the band Motörhead wrote the tribute song "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." which appeared on their album 1916. The Ramones later took to playing the song live, and recorded their own version of it.
• The Human League song "Things That Dreams are Made Of" (from their platinum-selling 1981 album Dare) namechecks "Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee" in the lyrics.
• At the beginning of the Clash's cover of "Police and Thieves", (originally performed by Junior Murvin) singer Joe Strummer ad-libs "They're going through a tight wind" which is a line from "Blitzkrieg Bop".
• From 1999-2002, twenty-eight punk rock bands re-recorded the entire RamonesMania album. Released on CD in 2002 as Ramones Maniacs on trend is dead! records. Features bands like Frantics, Bracket, Furious George, Blanks 77, Youth Gone Mad, Loose Change, Yogurt and even a guest appearance by Dee Dee Ramone himself.
• Frank Black from the Pixies has a song on his first solo album called "I Heard Ramona Sing" that is a Ramones tribute song.
• "American Child", a song by The Stone Coyotes contains the line "give us Jerry Lee Lewis/ Give us Joey Ramone".
• The Dutch group Heideroosjes wrote a song called "Ode to the Ramones", a song that starts with a "1-2-3-4" and is full of Ramones lyrics, such as "The KKK took my baby away", "Sheena is a punk rocker", and "Rockaway Beach". In 2004 and 2005, they toured through Belgium and Holland as the cover band "the ramroosjes"(www.ramroosjes.tk).
• New York hardcore band, The Casualties, wrote a song called "Made in NYC", in which they make several references to Ramones songs.
• Corin Tucker, lead singer and guitarist of Portland, Oregon-based rock band Sleater-Kinney, wrote a song titled "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" (in reference to the Ramones song "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend") for their sophomore record, Call The Doctor. The song also appears in the soundtrack for the film All Over Me.
• The Wildhearts' song "29 x The Pain", a tribute to songwriter Ginger's influences, includes the line "The Beatles and The Stones get to hang out with Ramones".
• D.E.A.D.R.A.M.O.N.E.S. by Modern Life Is War.
• Punk band The Huntingtons recorded a song-for-song cover of the entire End of the Century LP.
• Australian all-female band The Spazzys releases a song called "I Wanna Cut My Hair Just Like Marky Ramone".
• Guitar Wolf dress in "Ramones drag" and have a song named "Kung Fu Ramone".
• The Screeching Weasel album Beat Is On the Brat is a cover of the Ramones' first album.
• The Huntingtons recorded a tribute album called "File Under Ramones"
• The Adicts, a punk band from the UK, did a cover of "I Wanna Be Sedated"
• The name of the Croatian band "Blitzkrieg Zone" is a combination of two Ramones songs – Blitzkrieg bop and Danger Zone
• Replicantes, a punk rock band from Brazil, sing "I want a party without Stones, i like then but i prefer Ramones..." in the "Punk Party" music.
• Ratos de Porão, a very famous band from Brazil, played cover of Commando in they album Anarkophobia.
• Green Day's song St. Jimmy off of the album American Idiot has the line 1-2-3-4 in the part that says "Light of a Silhouette, He's Insubordinate coming at you on the count of 1 2 1-2-3-4".
• Blink-182's song Online Songs off of the album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket has 1-2-3-4 in the part at the beginning where it says "Everything you wished for came true end the end we all blamed you even though as they all know you weren't the only 1-2-3-4."
• NOFX's song Everything in Moderation off of the album Never Trust a Hippy has the line "When your band has been a band longer than the Ramones".
• Adam Ant's B-Side Baby says "I think "Punk" is an overused word As a matter of fact I hate Joey Ramone when he says He's gonna beat on a - He's going to find himself d-down an alley With his face beaten flat And a spray job in bright pink letters, saying B-R-A-T spells"