Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my look back at an album from 1983, The Ramones' Subterranean Jungle.
This piece was originally written for the 2005 book Lost In The Grooves, edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay. There will be two more Lost In The Grooves pieces reprised in near-future Boppin' Pop-A-Loozas. I had previously contributed to Cooper and Smay's Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth in 2001, supplying an edited version of my history of bubblegum music, an appreciation of The Bay City Rollers, and collaborating with Gary Pig Gold on a debate about The Monkees.
I've had work appear in other writers' books, including the history of power pop I wrote for John Borack's Shake Some Action and a reminiscence about John Lennon for Mr. Borack's Life Is What Happens. I had hoped to contribute to another pop book recently, but it was not to be.That's the way the Rickenbacker jangles sometimes.
Of course, what I really need to do is a book of my own. My long-planned book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) is on hold, pending the development of some sort of path forward. It's not quite dead, but it is on life support at the moment; that said, I have not given up on GREM! just yet. There is, however, a different book project that looks more promising in the short term. I'll let you know when/if there's something to report on that promise.
In the mean time, we go back to Lost In The Grooves, and my celebration of an album deleted too quickly. The Ramones' Subterranean Jungle provides the subject for the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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