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Ramones is considered to have established the musical genre punk rock, as well as popularizing it years afterward. Nicholas Rombes, author of the 33⅓ book Ramones explained that it offered "alienated future rock,"

Critical response
Ramones was well received by critics. Reviewing for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album five out of five stars, saying the album "begins at a blinding speed and never once over the course of its 14 songs does it let up." Erlewine also noted that the album "is all about speed, hooks, stupidity, and simplicity." Douglas Wolk of Rolling Stone magazine gave the album five out of five stars as well, and noted the album "is one of the happiest albums ever made." Robert Christgau gave the album an A, and said that he "loved" the album, and About.com gave the album four and a half stars out of five.

Charles M. Young, an employee for the Rolling Stone Magazine praised the album, saying that the album is "one of the funniest rock records ever made and, if punk continues to gain momentum, a historic turning point." Jeff Tamarkin of Allmusic said that "Punk rock begins here," referring to the album, and also proclaimed "rock's mainstream didn't know what hit it." In 1999, Collins Gem Classic Albums wrote that "They stared from the cover of this magnificent debut album with dumb defiance written all over them. The songs within were a short, sharp exercise in vicious speed-thrash, driven by ferocious guitars and yet halting in an instant. It was the simple pop dream taken to its minimalist extreme. There just couldn't be anything faster or harder than this. The Ramones was the starting gun for English punk." Joe S. Harrington declared that the album "split the history of rock 'n' roll in half." Theunis Bates, a music writer for Time magazine and an editor at worldpop.com, composed that "Ramones stripped rock back to its basic elements," and noted that its "lyrics are very simple, boiled-down declarations of teen lust and need." Bates later went on to say that it "is the ultimate punk statement."

Accolades
The album was included in Spin's List of Top Ten College Cult Classics, noting that "everything good that's happened to music in the last fourteen years can be directly traced to the Ramones." The album was ranked thirty-three in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." The album debuted at number one-hundred eleven on the Billboard 200. In 2003, Ramones was considered by Spin magazine's Chuck Klosterman, Greg Milner, and Alex Pappademas to be the sixth most influential album of all time. They noted that the album "saved rock from itself and punk rock from art-gallery pretension, bless their pointy little heads," and also said that the their songs had "one lightning-bolt riff." In Spin's 1995 Alternative Record Guide, the album is listed in the top spot of their Top 100 Alternative Albums. It was ranked number 33 on the Rolling Stone Magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. VH1 named the album number fifty-three on their 100 Greatest Albums of Rock & Roll'. Despite the lack of airplay in its first few months, Blitzkrieg Bop has appeared in the media on many occasions, and in 2009 it was named the 25th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.

Legacy
Ramones is considered to have established the musical genre punk rock, as well as popularizing it years afterward. Nicholas Rombes, author of the 33⅓ book Ramones explained that it offered "alienated future rock," and that it "disconnected from tradition." Since it is their debut album, it began the Ramones' influence on popular music, with examples being musicians associated with other genres, such as heavy metal, thrash metal indie pop, grunge, and post-punk. are among the many alternative rock musicians who have credited the Ramones with inspiring them.

The album made little commercial impact, reaching only number 111 on the Billboard album chart. Neither of the album's singles, "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", ever charted. Despite its lack of popularity in its era, since the beginning of the 21st Century, some 25 years after its release and years after the dissolution of the group Ramones, the importance of the album for the development of punk rock music was recognized by the music press and music industry. Since then, Ramones has won several awards. It started in 2001, the U.S. music magazine Spin in its special issue: 25 Years of Punk with a list of The 50 Most Essential Punk Records. The Ramones album there is number 1. Tony James said that "Everybody went up three gears the day they got that first Ramones album. Punk rock—that rama-lama super fast stuff—is totally down to the Ramones. Bands were just playing in an MC5 groove until then." The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at The 2002 Induction Ceremony. The site said that "When the [Ramones] hit the street in 1976 with their self-titled first album, the rock scene in general had become somewhat bloated and narcissistic. The Ramones got back to basics: simple, speedy, stripped-down rock and roll songs. Voice, guitar, bass, drums. No makeup, no egos, no light shows, no nonsense. And though the subject matter was sometimes dark, emanating from a sullen adolescent basement of the mind, the group also brought cartoonish fun and high-energy excitement back to rock and roll."