It was unlike anything audiences had heard or seen: four leather jacket-clad, shaggy-haired ne'er do wells from Forest Hills, Queens, offering loud bursts of sneering rock and roll as grimy as the streets they stumbled across. Almost no one knew it then, but this was a musical movement, as potent as Elvis Presley's first swivel or the first haze over Woodstock.

Four decades later, Rhino Records celebrates the incredible legacy of the self-titled debut album by the Ramones with a 3CD/1LP box set, due this summer.

The Ramones--lead singer Joey, guitarist Johnny, bassist Dee Dee and drummer Tommy (all pseudonymous)--had been gigging since 1974, offering short, sharp-edged songs that stoked the flames of a new direction in rock music, coalescing around the downtown club CBGB. Their sound was described in one word by a local zine of the same name: punk.

Signed by Seymour Stein of Sire Records, the Ramones and producer Craig Leon famously recorded their debut quickly and cheaply, for the bizarre sum of $8,400. None of the 14 songs stretched past two and a half minutes, and the LP itself didn't even crack a half-hour--but its urgent energy would lay the foundation for a host of bands in the late '70s throughout both America and the United Kingdom.

Critics were cautiously optimistic at the time--Rolling Stone called it "one of the funniest rock records ever made, and if punk continues to gain momentum a historic turning point"--but 40 years on, thanks to tracks like "Judy is a Punk," "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue," a straightforward cover of Chris Montez's '60s classic "Let's Dance" and the iconic opener "Blitzkrieg Bop," Ramones is a bona-fide classic. It's No. 33 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, topped SPIN Alternative Record Guide's list of best albums, and was added to the National Recording Registry in 2002. (Not bad for an album that peaked at No. 111 on the Billboard 200 and "only" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2014!)

For Ramones' 40^th anniversary--an occasion that's been marked across the country by tributes including exhibits at The Queens Museum and Los Angeles' Grammy Museum--Rhino is greatly expanding upon the band's impressive 25^th anniversary reissue from 2001 with a host of rare and unreleased material. In this set, you'll get:

-       The original remastered album
-       A new mono mix, recreated by producer Leon and available on both CD and 180-gram LP. ("All the original monitor mixes and early mixes we did in the studio were mono," he told Observer earlier this year, "so I recreated the mono mix out of my original notes, which luckily were quite meticulous.")
-       A disc of 18 single mixes, outtakes and demos, eight of which are previously unreleased
-       Two fast-paced sets at The Roxy in Los Angeles on August 12, 1976. One was included as bonus material for a reissue of the band's sophomore album Leave Home in 2001, while the second set is previously unreleased
-       Deluxe packaging includes Leon's production notes from the recording of Ramones, an essay by Mitchell Cohen and photos by Roberta Bayley, a photographer for Punk magazine who shot the album's iconic cover

Fans can cry "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" all over again when Ramones: 40^th Anniversary Deluxe Edition--available as 19,760 individually numbered copies--hits stores July 29.

Ramones: 40^th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Sire/Rhino, 2016)

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Disc 1: Original LP (Sire SASD-7520, 1976) in stereo and mono (previously unreleased)

1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. Beat on the Brat
3. Judy is a Punk
4. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
5. Chain Saw
6. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
7. I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement
8. Loudmouth
9. Havana Affair
10. Listen to My Heart
11. 53^rd & 3^rd
12. Let's Dance
13. I Don't Wanna Walk Around with You
14. Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World

Tracks 15-28 are mono versions

Disc 2: Single Mixes, Outtakes and Demos

1. Blitzkrieg Bop (Single Version)
2. Blitzkrieg Bop (Mono Single Version)
3. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (Single Version)
4. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (Mono Single Version)
5. Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World (Original Uncensored Vocals)
6. I Don't Care (Demo)
7. 53^rd & 3^rd (Demo)
8. Loudmouth (Demo)
9. Chain Saw (Demo)
10. You Should Have Never Opened That Door (Demo)
11. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (Demo)
12. I Can't Be (Demo)
13. Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World (Demo)
14. I Don't Wanna Walk Around with You (Demo)
15. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue (Demo)
16. I Don't Wanna Be Learned / I Don't Wanna Be Tamed (Demo)
17. You're Gonna Kill That Girl (Demo)
18. What's Your Game (Demo)

Tracks 1-2 from Sire promo single SAA-725, 1976
Track 3 from Sire single SAA-734, 1976
Track 4 from Philips single 6078 510, 1977
Tracks 5, 7-9, 11, 13-14 and 17 previously unreleased
Tracks 6, 10 and 15 from Ramones: Expanded Edition (Warner Archives/Rhino R2 74306, 2001)
Tracks 12 and 16 from All the Stuff (and More!) Vol. 1 (Sire 26220, 1990)

Disc 3: Live At The Roxy, Los Angeles - 8/12/1976

1. Loudmouth
2. Beat on the Brat
3. Blitzkrieg Bop
4. I Remember You
5. Glad to See You Go
6. Chain Saw
7. 53^rd & 3^rd
8. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
9. Havana Affair
10. Listen to My Heart
11. California Sun
12. Judy is a Punk
13. I Don't Wanna Walk Around with You
14. Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World
15. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
16. Let's Dance

Both set lists are identical.

Tracks 11 and 13 first released as B-sides to Sire single SAA-734, 1976
Tracks 1-16 first released together on Leave Home: Expanded Edition (Warner Archives/Rhino R2 74307, 2001)
Tracks 17-32 are from 8/12/1976 show - previously unreleased

LP: Mono mix