hr of bad brains says they were not named after ramones song l blogs aren't reliable source here but it does have an opinion of the writer band was named after and then the singer himself the person who was there contradicts that with his truth saying they were not named after says the following the band pulled its new name the bad brains from a ramones song although h r insists that he didn't know it was a ramones song he says he thought bad was street slang for good were the ramones an influence pre cursor to hardcore yes they are however they the ramones were in turn influenced by hardcore and started playing it during recorded it on too tough to die on songs such as warthog and on the release animal boy in they used more hardcore punk influence on the song animal boy which are both pretty straight forward hardcore punk songs the link to punk rock covers the ramones contribution and it is also listed in the info box punk is the first listed origin the musical characteristics covers what it should and hardcore hasn't had a full johnny ramone influence enough for logical inclusion since the mid s now the section has become a section of name dropping instead of focusing on the real meat and potatoes the style