Gothamist: NYC Album Art: Subterranean Jungle

Jayson Levin

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:43:46 -0500

Veteran actor William Franklyn, known for voicing the 1960s Schweppes TV adverts, dies aged 81...

Kane Thomsen

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:36:23 -0500

Classical singer Russell Watson postpones his forthcoming UK tour after undergoing brain surgery...

Kane Thomsen

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:34:23 -0500

Classical singer Russell Watson postpones his forthcoming UK tour after undergoing brain surgery...

pshop

Thu, 04 May 2006 19:12:33 -0500

Back then, they used rubber cement and an X-Acto knife to add additional people in photos, not Photoshop!

Glenn

Thu, 04 May 2006 18:38:00 -0500

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.

James

Thu, 04 May 2006 15:04:51 -0500

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.

Mike

Thu, 04 May 2006 14:41:06 -0500

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."

Road Cat

Thu, 04 May 2006 13:18:29 -0500

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.

Kevin Walsh

Thu, 04 May 2006 12:04:15 -0500

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

Retoucher

Thu, 04 May 2006 10:43:43 -0500

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.