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The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider an outcast a person whos somehow defective and the revolt against shame and selfloathing The fans argues Donna Gaines got it right away from their own experience of alienation at home at school on the streets and from themselves This sense of estrangement and marginality permeates everything the Ramones still offer us as artists and as people Why the Ramones Matter compellingly makes the case that the Ramones gave us everything they saved rock and roll modeled DIY ethics and addressed our deepest collective traumas from the personal to the historical