Youth Gone Mad is a punk rock band founded by Paul (Ena) Kostabi. This
album entitled Youth Gone Mad Featuring Dee Dee Ramone is a
collaboration studio album by the Youth Gone Mad and Dee Dee Ramone.
Also Dee Dee's wife Barbara Zambini does play in some tracks.
These are final recordings Dee Dee ever did. As Paul Kostabi said to
me in Rock In
Peace: Dee Dee And Joey Ramone book interview, Dee Dee didn't
get to hear the finished product what was released six months after Dee
Dee became an angel.Dee Dee Ramone's and Paul Kostabi's painting is on booklet pages on the record.
1) Released in Germany by Wanker Records & Trash2001 Records.
Released as LP.
First 100 copies on limited colored vinyl (violet). See cover on right.
2) Also is a vinyl release of this album by Trend Is Dead! Records. Trend Is Dead! Records release is 12' picture LP, limited to 550 copies. See cover on right.
3) Also is a CD release of this album by Trend Is Dead! Records. See cover on right.
4) ALSO see details of release by False Alarm Records (USA), it contains two albums in one CD: this Youth Gone Mad album and False Alarm's CD titled Fuck 'Em All We've All Ready (Now) Won! (2006).
Italian label Nicotine Records published False Alarm CD in April, 2009.
TRACKLISTING OF YOUTH GONE MAD ALBUM:
1) Bego Bago (Paul Kostabi)
2) Blitzkrieg Bop (Ramones)
3) Dee Dee Deceased (Fenton Lawless)
4) False Alarm (Dee Dee Ramone/ Paul Kostabi)
5) Horror Hospital (Dee Dee Ramone/ Paul Kostabi)
6) I Gotta Right To Love Her If I Want To (Dee Dee Ramone/ Paul Kostabi)
7) I Kill You (Paul Kostabi)
8) Louse (Paul Kostabi)
9) Rock And Roll Vacation In LA (Dee Dee Ramone/Paul Kostabi)
10) Sheena Is A Surf Punk (Dee Dee Ramone/ Paul Kostabi)
11) Stinky Punk (Paul Kostabi)
12) Twist And Shout (Isley Brothers)
13) Yellow (Paul Kostabi)
14) You Guy's Ready (Paul Kostabi)
15) In The Pines (Lead Belly)
Produced by Paul Kostabi (ENA) in New York at Court Metrage Studios and Los Angeles at Painted Sound studios.
In The Pines produced by Ron Allaire at Giant Studios in NYC in 1995.
Paul Kostabi vocals and guitar throughout. He also played bass on Stinky Punk with farfisa and melodica.
Dee Dee Ramone vocals on tracks False Alarm and Horror Hospital, and ghost vocals where ever you can hear him. Dee Dee played guitar on most of these tracks and bass on Horror Hospital.
Barbara Zampini played guitar and/or bass on tracks Dee Dee Deceased, I Gotta Right To Love Her If I Want To, Sheena Is A Surf Punk and Twist And Shout.
Tony Mann Plays drums on tracks 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 12.
Fenton Lawless plays guitar and sings on track 3, Dee Dee Deceased.
Paul Kostabi plays drums on everything else.
Mike Solis plays guitar on Horror Hospital.
Steve Gabe played guitar with Ron Allaire on track 15, In The Pines.
RELEASE BY FALSE ALARM RECORDS
Release by False Alarm Records (USA) contains two albums in one CD: this Youth Gone Mad album and also False Alarm's CD titled Fuck 'Em All We've All Ready (Now) Won! (2006).
This release has 27 songs in total.
From both original albums are missing final song.
So from Fuck 'Em All We've All Ready (Now) Won! is taken away final song (I Don't Want To Be Your Friend) and from Youth Gone Mad album is taken away (In The Pines).
False Alarm's Fuck 'Em All We've All Ready (Now) Won! part is
produced by False Alarm's Brent "Aldo" Alden and Youth Gone Mad's
Paul Kostabi. Dee Dee Ramone and Paul Kostabi painted together cover
of Fuck 'Em All We've All Ready (Now) Won! Cheetah Chrome of Dead Boys, Cheetah Chrome & The Blackhearts etc. does play lead guitar in five songs, first solo in one song and Cheetah does sing Dead Boys' cover High Tension Wire. Rick Wilder of Mau Maus & Berlin Brats does sing New York Dolls' cover Vietnamese Baby. Brent Alden and Dylan Maunder (RIP, 2005) wrote all other songs expect Paul Kostabi wrote In My Mind song, and Brent and Dylan wrote Day Is Night together with George Tabb.
False Alarm (Los Angeles, USA) and Nicotine Records (Italy), made an record deal. Nicotine Records released European pressing of this False Alarm's praised CD in April, 2009.
TRACKLISTING OF ORIGINAL FALSE ALARM ALBUM:
1) Horrible Life.
2) Vietnamese Baby
3) Enemies
4) Youth Gone Mad
5) Tell Me Who I am
6) No Choice
7) My Destruction
8) In My Mind
9) Devil Devil
10) I Could Care Less
11) High Tension Wire
12) Day Is Night
13) Can't See The Sun
14) I Don't Want To Be Your Friend