Mondo Bizzarro  by Ramones

The twelfth studio album of the Ramones was released in September 1992 and was titled Mondo Bizarro, meaning "strange world" in Italian. Mondo Bizarro marks the beginning of the Ramones' collaboration with Radioactive Records, as their cooperation with Sire Records, which had started with the first Ramones album in 1976, could not continue. Additionally, Ed Stasium returns to produce a Ramones album. The last time he worked with the group was in 1984 on the album Too Tough To Die.

Apart from this change, there is yet another one that involves the presence of Christopher Joseph Ward or C. J. Ramone on bass, who took the place of Dee Dee Ramone. The latter - even though he was no longer with the band - sold the rights to three songs he had written. These were Main Man, Strength to Endure, and Poison Heart. The latter two became two of the three singles from the album. Dee Dee Ramone made this move to pay a lawyer to get him out of a case involving marijuana possession (!). Another noteworthy moment of the album is the cover of Take It As It Comes by the Doors. The song Touring, which combines Sheena Is a Punk Rocker and Rock 'n' Roll High School with references in its lyrics to Rockaway Beach, is a brief summary of the Ramones' career.

The album reached No. 190 on the Billboard chart, but this was not concerning since the true success of the Ramones was beyond the USA. In Brazil - for example - Mondo Bizarro has sold 100,000 copies (!), while in Sweden it went up to No. 41.