Mondo Bizarro

I've just reacquainted myself with this, the 12th Ramones studio album, and it's a lot better than I remembered. I always enjoyed this album but I think I had the idea that if anything, it covered the point spread, as it were. Now it seems clear that this is the best Ramones album since Subterranean Jungle and it might even be better in some ways. It's clearly better than Animal Boy and Halfway to Sanity (when the latter came out I convinced myself it was way better than it is, it's very weak). This is nestled right in the middle of a run of weakish-to-lame late period albums so it is all the more surprising that it is such a good album.

I am going to write more about this later so watch this space...