Oh yeah, you bet your bippy he likes the Ramones.
He featured "Judy is a Punk" on his Under the Influence compilation.
And here's what Moz wrote about Ramones in his sleevenotes to "Under the Influence":
"In the real world of pop songs, genius drags the always reluctant world along. Awful to listen to on first play, the first
Ramones album stays beside me almost thirty years on. A cruel £5.29 on import in 1976, this is an album of criminal ballads, and “Judy is a Punk” still sends a shock through the blood, complete with red-herring lyrical lift from “I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am” (
“second verse/it’s the same as the first”). At Manchester’s Electric Circus to promote their debut album, the Ramones move across the stage like human remains floating ashore. Smallpox brought them together.
Joey is whooping cough on two impossibly long legs.
Someone who has been murdered in a hospital bed looks better than Joey.
The Ramones do nothing to conceal their disabilities, and I am once again in love.
‘
and oh I don’t know why/oh I don’t know why
perhaps they’ll die? Oh yeah
perhaps they’ll die? Oh yeah.’
And then, “
third verse/it’s different from the first” – I’m just glad they alerted us."
and in Word magazine, 2003
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"The Ramones first album changed everything. You have to remember how dank music was before that time, in 1976. They were very peculiar, they all looked slightly diseased and I have no doubt they had germs."