Song of the Day 12/8: The Ramones, “High Risk Insurance”

There’s gonna be a big run on this stuff. The Ramones were into it before anybody.

It was popular, too. “End of the Century” was the band’s fifth LP, released in 1980, with Phil Spector himself at the control board. Critics and hard-punk fans called its poppier sound and production a sellout, and if it was, it worked: At No. 44 on the Billboard 200, it was the highest-charting effort of the band’s career.