Acid Eaters
The Ramones play the Amboy Dukes! The Ramones play the Troggs! The  Ramones play the Stones! Each new chestnut can render veteran fans speechless,  and that's the point ofAcid Eaters, of course. In addition to offering  short, sharp two-minute blasts of nostalgia, these 12 tunes make the case once  more for the Ramones as essential rock archetypes: There have been punks before  and since, but have any really done it better?It's a shrewd move: The Ramones still sound like the Ramones, even if their new  A-list originals are fewer and further between, and the results are certainly  more fun than the inferior covers heard from other, bigger bands. But the set  list is more conservative than the title suggests. Too many of the songs are  staples of classic rock radio, and true fans will wish the Ramones simply  coveredNuggets, Lenny Kaye's influential collection of real acid-eating  garage bands from the '60s.--Jim DeRogatis