Ramones "Brain drain"

I may lose some credibility with punk rock purists but this is hands down my favorite #ramones album. "Brain Drain" was released my senior year of high school and that summer after graduating I got to see the Ramones live on the "escape from new york" tour (with Debbie Harry, Tom Tom club and Jerry Harrison ).  This record came out and featured the theme song to the movie "pet cemetery ", because of that song we all headed up to the now defunct Como Mall and half of my skateboard crew bought tickets and distracted the usher while the other half snuck in (we had been watching and trying to emulate Penelope Spheeris's 1984 movie "suburbia" for a while at this point).  I don't remember much of that Steven King movie but I do remember us all singing the song during the closing credits.  Maybe all these experiences have culminated in my decision, but really I think this is a great batch of Ramones songs with as good of production as they had in the '80s. (Though I will never enjoy those over gated snare drums from that decade, definitely dates the whole Husker Du catalog, but I digress). Besides "pet cemetery "(a GREAT fucking song) the album opens up with my favorite ramones chest thumper: "I believe in miracles" and the album closes with what should be the Menter Family carol: "Merry Christmas  (I don't want to fight tonight)". As with all ramones albums there's a couple snoozers but they are out numbered and outweighed by the great tracks.