I love the Ramones and this is the best album of their later stuff. Poison Heart and Strengh to Endure are the best songs here. Strong hard edged tunes. I higly recommend this cd. This music blows away the boy band crapola that everyone is listening to these days. LONG LIVE ROCK!!!!

Three albums had passed since the last great Ramones album, and even the faithful were getting worried. The Ramones' long time relationship with Sire had ended and they entered the studio with a new label and a strong sense of purpose. The result was a return to form, and set the band back on course for a resurgence. Starting with the anti-PMRC (remember them?) rant "Censors#!t", they crash through 13 very Ramonesy songs in a style that would almost be retro if they hadn't had invented it in the first place.

Also worth a chuckle is the disc's closer, "Touring." Ripping off their own "Rock And Roll High School," Joey sends up the whole road show of rock with a wink and a power chord. It ends the disc on a note as giddy as the opener was politically snarling. "Mondo Bizaro" was The Ramones we had grown up loving, comfortable with their legacy and ready to take control of it once again.

This was the first Ramones album released after they left Sire Records, and also the first studio album recorded after Dee Dee quit the band. It's not a classic Ramones album by any means, but it does have it's moments. Even without Dee Dee in the band, he still contributed the best songs on the album; "Poison Heart", "Strength to Endure" and "Main Man". Joey wrote seven songs for the album, most of which are decent, but none of them are all that memorable. Marky Ramone also contributed his first two songs to this album, which are okay. There is one cover song on the album, which is the Doors' "Take It As It Comes", and it's actually one of the better songs on the album. While this isn't one of the Ramones' best albums, Ramones fans should enjoy it.

It's amazing that an album like this is hardly even known of by most people. A great album. The stupid thing is that all people listen to today is the... in the main stream. Weird.

Louder guitars than any other Ramones record (almost like arena-rock.) This is another prime example of how production was right on and not hollow with too many of the band's other releases. Angrier sound here... I think that's why I like this one so much.