Editing Halfway to Sanity (section)

===Critical===

''Halfway to Sanity'' received mixed reviews from critics. When it was released in September 1987, the ''[[New York Post]]'' praised it as another well produced album by the Ramones, and ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' said Sire should have released "Go Lil' Camaro Go" as a single.<ref>{{Harvnb|True|2010|page=292}}</ref> ''[[The Village Voice|Village Voice]]'' critic [[Robert Christgau]] gave the album a "C+", writing that, while he felt pained to say it, "with Richie or whoever on the lam, Dee Dee moonlighting as a punk-rapper, Joey frequenting all-acoustic showcases, and Johnny Johnny, a great band has finally worn down into a day job for night people."<ref name="robert"/> However, in the United Kingdom, the album received virtually no attention from professional critics. Ramones [[fanzine]] writer Mark Bannister explained that critics there thought the album "didn't sound right without some more of Joey's songs to balance out Dee Dee's. There was no equilibrium."<ref>{{Harvnb|True|2010|page=293}}</ref> 

In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album one and a half stars out of five, calling it a "much sharper record" than its predecessor only because it did not overlook the band's "trashy pop roots."<ref name="allmusic"/> While he found the album to be "inconsistent", he praised it as the last release where the band "still sounded like they mattered."<ref name="allmusic"/>