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There's suspicion lurking in this thread about the reality of the Ramones Subterranean Jungle album cover. Some seem to think there's a possibility the band was just cut and pasted in to that subway train. However, here's the alternative album cover - which would make us believe they were really there. That graffiti was totally photoshopped though (or whatever it is they did in the 80's).
Further proof that it's real...George DuBose photographed that cover. This was his first time meeting the band, and although they were not happy with the way it turned out, they continued working with him on many other photoshoots.
The album was released in May of 1983, and according to Wikipedia, "Marky Ramone was kicked out of the band during the production of the album. He is lurking almost invisibly behind the window on the front cover." (Marky was eventually replaced by Ritchie Ramone).
From the song Time Has Come Today, off of the album:
The room has changed today
I have no place to stay
I'm thinking about the subway
My love has blown away
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They used an airbrush in the pre-Photoshop days (hence the term "airbrushed"). Sometimes a special machine was used to vibrate a piece of film, and a retoucher would use a head-strapped magnifier and a tiny paint brush to retouch a photo. This is why old photos always had a "dreamy" look, because most of them were retouched with paint and by hand.
Pro-graffiti article in NY Press this week, Jake take note
http://www.nypress.com/19/18/news&columns/feature2.cfm
www.forgotten-ny.com
This is a real photo of the Raqmoes taken in the NYC swbway. I know because I was there.
Of course the graffiti was put in later.
For the best book on the Ramones read,
"On The Road With The Ramones"
http://www.ontheroadwiththeramones.com
This is a MUST-HAVE book for all Ramones fans. It's an inside look from the people who were actually there witnessing and experiencing all the extreme highs and lows of one of rock's greatest bands. The Ramones' music has influenced nearly every power pop, punk, alternative, and metal band. Monte A. Melnick served as The Ramones tour manager from their early New York club days at CBGB's in the '70s to their farewell gigs in 1996. Filled with memorabilia including photographs and interviews collected along the way, this is his view of life on the road with the band as "baby-sitter to psychiatrist, booking agent to travel agent, paymaster to van driver." It's such a fascinating read, you'll have a hard time putting it down. Buy it, read it, and then revisit their albums. You'll never look at the Ramones in the same light.
Ah, I was just listening to the Ramones on the way to work this morning.
"Well New York City really has it alllll... oh yeaaaaah, oh yeaaaaaaaah."
I had read an interview with Joey talking about how Marky was really f'ed up on drugs and stuff at that time, and he was "photoshopped" in. Look at it again really close, its bad.
If I can put in my two cents about this album and the few before and after it, since I've been a fan since the age of nine...
Subterranean is a really great album, one of the band's often overlooked albums from the early '80s. The first four (and It's Alive) get all the attention, but I think the run of five albums from End of the Century (1980) through Animal Boy (1986) are all great, and have some of the band's finest songs. (No comment on Halfway to Sanity.) Yes, they're different than the "classic Ramones sound," but really great songs that show the band was capable of branching out and showing off its influences.
Pleasant Dreams and Too Tough to Die, I'd say those are the best of their albums from the '80s. And though a lot of people can't accept what Phil Spector did to them on End of the Century, I think it's an incredible album. Different, that's for sure, but incredible.
Back then, they used rubber cement and an X-Acto knife to add additional people in photos, not Photoshop!
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