“It was cool it could get on American radio. “I don’t think I ever discussed it with the guys directly, but I think we all thought I Love Rock ’N Roll was a really great song,” bassist Dee Dee Ramone revealed in the sleevenotes for the 2002 reissue of Subterranean Jungle. “I thought it was time for the Ramones to get on the radio” Yet the band’s appreciation of one contemporary hit helped shape the sound of their next record. The New York City quartet’s role as punk trailblazers was widely acknowledged, but they were in danger of sounding anachronistic at a time when shiny, synth-based pop acts such as The Human League and A Flock Of Seagulls were making it big, and Michael Jackson’s all-conquering Thriller was about to explode on the Billboard chart. Ramones weren’t helped by pop’s ever-changing trends in the early 80s. I wasn’t talking to Dee Dee at all, and I really needed him for his lyrics.” I didn’t like Pleasant Dreams, it was too lightweight and pop for me. “Between Pleasant Dreams and Subterranean Jungle, we weren’t talking at all. “We’d reached the bottom at that point,” guitarist Johnny Ramone noted in a 2002 interview with journalist Gil Kaufman. Even at their most victorious, the band were no strangers to dysfunctionality, but brudderly love was in particularly short supply at this stage of their career. Ramones never made any secret of the fact they were at a low ebb when they came to record their seventh album, 1983’s Subterranean Jungle.
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