Rhino Records releases previously unseen Ramones video for "She's the One", filmed in 1978

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      Here at the Georgia Straight, opinions on the Ramones are sharply divided. On one side we have music editor Mike Usinger, who feels that the band is grossly overrated. On the other side are the rest of us, who are correct.

      So, everyone but Mike was pretty excited to learn that, to tie in with the release of the 40th-anniversary edition of the Ramones' 1978 album Road to Ruin, Rhino Records had posted an unseen video from that year. The official story is that the video for "She's the One" had been sitting in an unmarked 16mm film canister for the past four decades until someone discovered it.

      Astute Ramones fans (and anal retentive nerds; the two camps are not mutually exclusive) will notice that the video was shot at the same location as the one for "Don't Come Close", which was presumably also filmed on the same day.

      The boxed-set version of the Road to Ruin 40th anniversary edition, which comes out today, features two different mixes of the album, unissued rough mixes for every album track, and an unreleased 1979 concert recording of the Ramones in New York. It would make a great birthday present for the stubbornly wrong-headed music-section editor in your life.

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