What -- No Love For Joey and Tommy?

From just now in 2026, please enjoy the brand new remix/reissue of Aussie punk/power pop pioneers The Eastern Dark's 1985 Ramones homage single "Johnny and Dee Dee."

I must confess to being heretofore unaware of those guys, who hailed from Sydney, although the guitar player had earlier been in The Celibate Rifles, who I recall enjoying back in the day. In any event, a terrific song; I particularly like the contrast between the delicately mournful instrumental intro and the buzz-saw guitars of the rest of it.

I should add that you can order copies of the newly pressed limited edition 45 -- in your choice of black, yellow, green and red vinyl -- over here at the website of Grown Up Wrong Records!.

BTW, get me drunk some time and I'll tell you about the, er, meeting I took with Dee Dee and my literary agent sometime in the '90s. The idea was they were gonna pitch a Dee Dee autobiography to some unsuspecting publisher and I was supposed to be the co-author.

Let's just say it was one of the creepiest experiences I've ever had.