Rocket to Russia (The Queers album)

Rocket to Russia is a Ramones cover album by pop punk band the Queers. This one of a series of full-length Ramones cover albums (which also included Ramones by Screeching Weasel, Leave Home by the Vindictives and Road to Ruin by the Mr. T Experience) released by Selfless Records in the mid-1990s.

Contents

• Track listing
• Personnel
• Songs
• References

Queers vocalist and guitarist Joe King has repeatedly stated that the Ramones are one of the biggest influences on the band. He wanted the Queers to sound "in between the Ramones and the Beach Boys." However, he was not thrilled about recording a Ramones album, stating that "they're usually perfect to begin with." At the time, the band did not have anything released except Love Songs for the Retarded and making the album helped them get by financially.

This album has been praised for faithfully reproducing the sound of the original Rocket to Russia. It was called "an impressive feat of mimicry" and "a nice tribute to the [Queers'] obvious heroes. This quality is the album's greatest strength showing how strongly influential the Ramones were.