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talking about xgau is reason enough for a thread lockin', if you ask me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

AMG review of Subterannean Jungle is interesting:

Tentatively returning toward punk, or at least new wave, the Ramones turned in their most enjoyable record since Rocket to Russia with Subterranean Jungle. Producers Ritchie Cordell and Glen Kolotkin were the heads of the edgy power pop and punk label Bomp!, so they steered the Ramones back toward the '60s pop infatuation that provided the foundation for their early records. It's a strategy that pays off well -- for the most part, the group's originals are so punchy and catchy that they make the pair of covers superfluous. Comprised of a set of unabashedly hook-laden songs and driven by more subtle rhythms, Subterranean Jungle may not be a punk record in the strictest sense of the word, yet the Ramones haven't sounded quite as alive in a long, long while.

Ritchie Cordell, Tommy James and the Shondells producer, was involved with Bomp Records? This may be an internet meme.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

NO IT ISN"T.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

none of my Ramones ALBUMS are CDs

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

So he was involved with Bomp Records? (x-post)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

NO IT ISNT AN INTERNET MEME WHEN ONE PERSON (IE YOU) CARES

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Tim, I was just teasing you, plz don't break heart. xxxxxxxxxxxxposts

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

ya'll are so touchy today!!!!!

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

FUCK OFF IAAN

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Joel, there are 655 web pages referencing this meme, bro:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22ritchie+cordell%22+bomp&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

ANGRY!!!! ON THE INTERNET!!!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Correction: not all of those reference that particular meme, BUT SOME OF THEM DO!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

600-some out of a bazillion pages ain't a meme.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.officialramones.com/store/freshner.jpg

I have this is my car. It is an air freshener. No, it does not smell like Ramones.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Note how any reference to Cordell/Kolotkin and Bomp Records together only occur in context of the Subterranean Jungle album! If, in fact, the assertion is untrue, one would assume that the AMG review is responsible for this! Will someone alert Ned?!?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

"only occur in context of discussions regarding the Subterranean Jungle album" I mean to say!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Neil: It's good to put some distance. We're trying to deal with people perhaps a bit more picky...

What are you talking about?

Jennifer: Punk rock.

Neil: Anyone that hates punk rock. We came back from San Francisco before I went into rehab, I was working in this restaurant. I had that Ramones tape, Pleasant Dreams, and I played it for the bartenders who listened to Jimmy Buffet every day. It's a bizarre fuckin world and like they have never heard of them! It just blew my mind! I thought everybody's heard of the fuckin Ramones! They're like the Monkees or something! They were laughing at me: YOU'RE A FREAK!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

ddb did a job on me

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

misfits had like four or five albums

― city of gyros (chaki), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

most of em were comps

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Two proper albums: Walk Among Us and Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

legacy of BRO-tality

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Static Age doesn't count as a proper album? i mean, it was released like 20 years after the fact. but still

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

WALK AMONG US
EARTH AD.
STATIC AGE
EVILLIVE + 2 EPS AND COMP TRACKS

LEGACY OF BRUTALITY IS A COMP BUT ALOT OF THAT SHIT WAS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED AND STATIC AGE WASNT REALEASED TILL LOTS LATER BUT IT IS A PROPER ALBUM.

― city of gyros (chaki), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I dunno. Was it intended as an album when they recorded it, but it just never got released? (x-post)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

WHATEVER DOOD ITS THE BEST ALBUM SDHIT UP

― city of gyros (chaki), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

x-post

it was meant as an LP, but it was shelved due to record company crap IIRC. most of the tracks eventually showed up on Legacy of Brotality and other singles and comps.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

You started it. (z-post)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

― city of gyros (chaki), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

TAKE IT TO ILM LOOSERS

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

THE MISFITS ARE A SINGLES BAND.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone like Pleasant Dreams/Subterranean Jungle era Ramones

pleasant dreams is grrrr-RATE! "c'mon now," "we want the airwaves," "the kkk took my baby away," "7-11," "she's a sensation," "you didn't mean anything to me," yeah it's good. prolly my favorite post-leave home album.

subterranean jungle much spottier with some dubious covers but "psychotherapy," "outsider," "my-my kind of girl" are good. and "highest trails above" = dee-dee at his most poetic (i.e. embarrassing but endearing).

better than misfits? DUH!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

First time I saw the Ramones was at the first 91X "X-Fest" in San Diego when I was 16. It was Tom Petty, Stray Cats, Ramones, Bow Wow Wow, Modern English, and the Flirts!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

No, I musta been 14 ... ('82, I think).

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

i saw 'em in '84, when i was likewise 14. they were a great live band.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

I reviewed subterranean jungle for some likely now-defunct NYU paper, my ONLY published stab at muzik crixizism.

I avoided Misfits partly on "bodybuilders' music sux" premise.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 April 2006 12:26 (twenty years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Then I took out my razor blade

― calstars, Saturday, 22 May 2021 19:26 (five years ago)

Indeed. You should submit a proposal for a 53 & 3rd book.

― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 May 2021 19:59 (five years ago)

End of the fucking century

― calstars, Saturday, 22 May 2021 20:02 (five years ago)

not liking the ramones is bourgeois, retrograde, counter-revolutionary

― unknown or illegal user (doo rag), Saturday, 22 May 2021 20:10 (five years ago)

one of the only perfect bands

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 22 May 2021 21:55 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Wondering if "Beat on the Brat" started out as one of Dee Dee's German songs.

― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:10 (four years ago)

Joey wrote "Beat on the Brat".

― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:35 (four years ago)

Beat on the Brecht

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:41 (four years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/eATDDKC.png

― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:48 (four years ago)

(Interior night. We see candles and shadows and a man with large mop of hair sitting at a piano)

― calstars, Saturday, 3 July 2021 18:44 (four years ago)

two years pass...

https://i.imgur.com/1wr1Uhh.jpeg

― calstars, Friday, 24 May 2024 02:47 (two years ago)

one year passes...

Do I need book about the making of Rock 'N' Roll High School?

― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 November 2025 23:06 (six months ago)

Whoa never heard about that one.

― visiting, Saturday, 22 November 2025 01:16 (six months ago)

Just saw it on display at MoMI.

― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 November 2025 01:42 (six months ago)

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