| The Ramones appear on the cover of Subterranean Jungle dressed in their trademark leather and denim, posing sulkily in a graffiti-covered New York subway train, looking admirably unconcerned about the fact that they are all, by now, well into their 30s and still look like a remedial class excursion. The music on Subterranean Jungle betrays a comparable reluctance to grow up, and the result is an amusing enough but unsatisfying album--by now, the Ramones had not only done mindless, adrenalised punk pop better than this, they'd done it better than anyone before or since. As such, Subterranean Jungle rarely makes a compelling case for its usefulness--there are a couple of cute tunes, notably "Time Has Come Today" and "My-My Kind Of A Girl", but the clumsy, laboured desperation of the closing track, "Every Time I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think Of You" is the more accurate representative. --Andrew Mueller |
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