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With Animal Boy, producer Jean Beauvoir (of Plasmatics infamy) attempted to update the Ramones' sound with the commercial conventions of the day, meaning keyboards and synthesizers. The balls-out title song momentarily simplifies things, but the album nevertheless progresses in hit-and-miss fashion. Of note, the album contains one of the band's most clearly political statements in first single "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg," written about President Ronald Reagan's ill-advised visit to Germany's Bitburg cemetery, the site of many Nazi graves. Interestingly, the song was later retitled "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down" prior to the album's release, after vehement protests from guitarist Johnny Ramone, a fervid conservative. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide
Animal Boy
05/01/1986 | Sire / London/rhino
All Music Guide Review
Animal Boy Track Listing
Credits of Animal Boy
- George DuBose
- Art Direction, Design, Photography
- The Ramones
- Main Performer
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