By 1989's Brain Drain, the Ramones' eleventh and least compelling album, the band appeared creatively exhausted. Rather than pick up a New York City/CBGB has-been to fill the enormous shoes left by departing bassist Dee Dee Ramone, the band chose Christopher Joseph Ward, a young punk kid fresh out of the Marine Corps.
Christened CJ RAMONE, the band hit the road in 1989 on an extensive world tour that culminated in 1991's Loco Live album. Clearly re-energized, the Ramones' first studio record with CJŚ1992's Mondo BizarroŚwas their strongest album in over a decade and a return to the classic Ramones punk rock form that they'd slipped in and out of throughout the 1980s in their search for more mainstream success.
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