Fed by two different songwriting styles, Ramones albums yin and yanged between Joey's love for '60s pop and Dee Dee's cartoon savagery. 1977's Rocket to Russia — Tommy's last hurrah behind the drum kit — is Joey's peak achievement, a rich trove of melodies and lighthearted silliness, with a self-referential streak ("We're a Happy Family," "Ramona") redolent of A Hard Day's Night or The Monkees. The joyous "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" and "Rockaway Beach" display the desire (if not the way) to introduce punk to the Top 40. In other hands, a third album with titles like "Cretin Hop," "Teenage Lobotomy" and "I Wanna Be Well" might verge on self-parody, but the Ramones had created their own world and were inhabiting it with untrammeled sincerity. Best bonus track: the otherwise non-album "It's a Long Way Back to Germany."