It's hard to approach Joey Ramone's second posthumous solo album with enormous enthusiasm. After all, his parent band didn't manage an indisputably good record after 1984's Too Tough to Die, and this has been compiled from demos and unreleased recordings – it wasn't intended as an album. There's just one undoubted gem here: Party Line, blessed with proper attention to period detail – the castanets that roll off the back of the Be My Baby beat – would have been one of the better songs on End of the Century, the album the Ramones made with Phil Spector. Elsewhere, the hands of 80s/90s Ramones collaborators Ed Stasium and Jean Beauvoir are evident, especially in the metallic crunch of the guitars, but no one seemed to realise the worth of the Ramones' less-is-more aesthetic. At 52 minutes, " … Ya Know?" is at least a quarter of an hour too long, and the individual songs – rarely more than germs of ideas – are dragged out beyond their natural span. The most magnificently individual singer in American rock history shouldn't be remembered like this.