HAPPINESS: THE RAMONES

From Swiss Adam: There are a ton of songs that help me to get through bad times, and plenty that echo melancholy and the small hours when it all seems dark. But this is The Ramones. Da Brudders' 1978 song We're A Happy Family is full of squalor and urban misery- 'sitting here in Queens, eating refried beans, we ain't got no friends, our troubles never end, no Christmas cards to send, Daddy likes men, Daddy's telling lies, baby's eating flies, Mommy's on pills, baby's got the chills, selling dad...

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