ROCKTOBER RED VINYL

Stephen King is one of the Ramones' most vocal fans, working lyrics from various of their songs into his novels and short stories. So when director Mary Lambert filmed King's zombie creepfest Pet Sematary in 1989, she not only used "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" in the movie's most genuinely terrifying sequence (a scene that plays on the fears of all toddlers' parents), she hired the Ramones to record the theme song. Sadly, the results are no "Rock & Roll High School." The minimalist lyrics consist primarily of a two-line chorus that both gives away the plot of the movie and rips off early Ramones standards like "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement," and at just over three and a half minutes, it goes on for at least 90 seconds too long. However, the combination of a hit movie and the revival of interest in the Ramones sparked by the previous year's career-overview Ramones Mania compilation made "Pet Sematary" the band's most commercially popular single of all time.

A        Pet Sematary (Single Version) 3:32
B        Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (LP Version) 2:47