Subterranean Jungle by The Ramones

Subterranean Jungle, the Ramones' seventh album, came out on Sire on February 28, 1983, and it's the brudders pulling back from the glossy pop of End of the Century and Pleasant Dreams and remembering how to hit hard. Johnny Ramone pushed for the tougher sound, even as the sessions were torn up by squabbles and by the band's struggles with drink and drugs.

It kicks off with two covers and slips a third onto side two, and the buzzsaw is back, with some hard-rock muscle and a streak of psychedelia snaking through the record, with "Psycho Therapy" among its sharpest jabs. Dee Dee Ramone steps up to sing lead on "Time Bomb" and takes the bridge of "Outsider", the first time anyone but Joey fronted a Ramones track on record. Critics hailed it as a return to their roots, and it was Marky Ramone's last album behind the kit until Brain Drain in 1989.

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