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Ramones Were A Punk Rock Band That Formed In Queens New York United States In 1974. They Are Often Cited As The First Punk Group. Despite Achieving Only Limited Commercial Success The Band Was A Major Influence On The Punk Rock Movement Both In The United States And The United Kingdom. All Of The Band Members Adopted Pseudonyms Ending With The Surname "Ramone" Though None Of Them Were Related. They Performed 2 263 Concerts Touring Virtually Nonstop For 22 Years. In 1996 After A Tour With The Lollapalooza Music Festival The Band Played A Farewell Concert And Disbanded. By A Little More Than Eight Years After The Breakup The Band's Three Founding Members—lead Singer Joey Ramone Guitarist Johnny Ramone And Bassist Dee Dee Ramone—had Died. Drummer Tommy Ramone The Last Surviving Original Member Died In 2014. Their Only Record With Enough U.S. Sales To Be Certified Gold Was The Compilation Album Ramones Mania. However Recognition Of The Band's Importance Built Over The Years And They Are Now Cited In Many Assessments Of All-Time Great Rock Music Such As The Rolling Stone List Of The 50 Greatest Artists Of All Time And VH1's 100 Greatest Artists Of Hard Rock. In 2002 The Ramones Were Ranked The Second-Greatest Band Of All Time By Spin Magazine Trailing Only The Beatles. On March 18 2002 The Ramones—including The Three Founders And Drummers Marky And Tommy Ramone—were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. In 2011 The Group Was Awarded A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Formation 1974–1975
Forest Hills High School Attended By The Four Original Members Of The Ramones The Original Members Of The Band Met In And Around The Middle-Class Neighborhood Of Forest Hills In The New York City Borough Of Queens. John Cummings And Tamás Erdélyi Had Both Been In A High-School Garage Band From 1966 To 1967 Known As The Tangerine Puppets. They Became Friends With Douglas Colvin Who Had Recently Moved To The Area From Germany And Jeffry Hyman Who Was The Initial Lead Singer Of The Glam Rock Band Sniper Founded In 1972. The Ramones Began Taking Shape In Early 1974 When Cummings And Colvin Invited Hyman To Join Them In A Band. The Initial Lineup Featured Colvin On Lead Vocals And Rhythm Guitar Cummings On Lead Guitar And Hyman On Drums. Colvin Who Soon Switched From Rhythm Guitar To Bass Was The First To Adopt The Name "Ramone" Calling Himself Dee Dee Ramone. He Was Inspired By Paul McCartney's Use Of The Pseudonym Paul Ramon During His Silver Beatles Days. Dee Dee Convinced The Other Members To Take On The Name And Came Up With The Idea Of Calling The Band The Ramones. Hyman And Cummings Became Joey Ramone And Johnny Ramone Respectively. A Friend Of The Band Monte A. Melnick Later Their Tour Manager Helped To Arrange Rehearsal Time For Them At Manhattan's Performance Studios Where He Worked. Johnny's Former Bandmate Erdélyi Was Set To Become Their Manager. Soon After The Band Was Formed Dee Dee Realized That He Could Not Sing And Play His Bass Guitar Simultaneously With Erdélyi's Encouragement Joey Became The Band's New Lead Singer. Dee Dee Would Continue However To Count Off Each Song's Tempo With His Signature Rapid-Fire Shout Of "1-2-3-4!" Joey Soon Similarly Realized That He Could Not Sing And Play Drums Simultaneously And Left The Position Of Drummer. While Auditioning Prospective Replacements Erdélyi Would Often Take To The Drums And Demonstrate How To Play The Songs. It Became Apparent That He Was Able To Perform The Group's Music Better Than Anyone Else And He Joined The Band As Tommy Ramone. The Ramones Played Before An Audience For The First Time On March 30 1974 At Performance Studios. The Songs They Played Were Very Fast And Very Short Most Clocked In At Under Two Minutes. Around This Time A New Music Scene Was Emerging In New York Centered Around Two Clubs In Downtown Manhattan—Max's Kansas City And More Famously CBGB Usually Referred To As CBGB's . The Ramones Made Their CBGB Debut On August 16. Legs McNeil Who Cofounded Punk Magazine The Following Year Later Described The Impact Of That Performance "They Were All Wearing These Black Leather Jackets. And They Counted Off This Song...And It Was Just This Wall Of Noise.... They Looked So Striking. These Guys Were Not Hippies. This Was Something Completely New." The Band Swiftly Became Regulars At The Club Playing There Seventy-Four Times By The End Of The Year. After Garnering Considerable Attention For Their Performances—which Averaged About Seventeen Minutes From Beginning To End—the Group Was Signed To A Recording Contract In Late 1975 By Seymour Stein Of Sire Records. Stein's Wife Linda Stein Had Seen The Band Play At CBGB She Would Later Co-Manage Them Along With Danny Fields. By This Time The Ramones Were Recognized As Leaders Of The New Scene That Was Increasingly Being Referred To As "punk". The Group's Unusual Frontman Had A Lot To Do With Their Impact. As Dee Dee Explained "All The Other Singers In New York Were Copying David Johansen Of The New York Dolls Who Was Copying Mick Jagger.... But Joey Was Unique Totally Unique."
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Blitzkrieg Bop
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"Blitzkrieg Bop" Is A Song By Punk Rock Band The Ramones. The Band's Inaugural Single It Was Released In April 1976 In The United States. It Was Recorded For And Appeared As The Lead Track On The Band's First Album Ramones Also Released That Month. The Song Whose Composition Was Credited To The Band As A Whole Was Written By Bassist Dee Dee Ramone Lyrics And Drummer Tommy Ramone Music And Lyrics . Based On A Simple Three-Chord Pattern "Blitzkrieg Bop" Opens With The Chant "Hey! Ho! Let's Go!". The Song Is Popular At Sporting Events Especially Baseball Games Where "Hey! Ho! Let's Go!" Is Sometimes Shouted As A Rallying Cry. "Blitzkrieg Bop" Is Number 92 On The Rolling Stone List Of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. In March 2005 Q Magazine Placed It At Number 31 In Its List Of The 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks And In 2008 Rolling Stone Placed It Number 18 On Top 100 Of Best Guitar Songs Of All Time. In 2009 It Was Named The 25th Greatest Hard Rock Song Of All Time By VH1. Origin And Meaning "Blitzkrieg Bop" Was Named After The German World War II Tactic Blitzkrieg Which Literally Means "lightning War". The Song Was Mainly Written By Drummer Tommy Ramone While Bassist Dee Dee Ramone Came Up With The Title The Song Was Originally Called "Animal Hop" . Dee Dee Also Changed One Line The Original Third Verse Had The Line "shouting In The Back Now" But Dee Dee Changed It To "shoot 'em In The Back Now". The Precise Meaning And Subject Matter Of The Song Are Unlike Many Of The Ramones' Other Early Compositions Somewhat Vague And Obscure. It May Be A Reference To Attacking The Exposed Flank Of Tanks During A Blitzkrieg Operation While Some Fans Contend Based On Lines Such As "Shoot 'em In The Back Now" That The Song Tells Of Gang Violence Which Would Seem To Be More In Line With The Bands' Other Songs Of That Era. But It Is More Likely That The Song Is Simply About Having A Good Time At A Concert Perhaps An Ode To Early Punk Fans. If The Third-Verse Line Had Not Been Changed The Song Meaning Would Be The Latter Composition "Blitzkrieg Bop" Keeps A 4/4 Timing Drum Beat With A 8th Note Down Stroke Guitar And Bass That Has A Three Chord Riff A D E Until The Breakdown Of The Song Occurs With The Chant "Hey! Ho! Let's Go!". The Chorus Contains A Slight Variation On The Chord Pattern With A B Three Bars Before The End Of The Chorus D A D A D B D E . Dedications * The Punk Rock Band Blitzkrieg Bop Took Their Name After The Song Title. * A Monthly Club Night At The Arches In Glasgow Is Named After The Song. * Pennywise Has Done A Cover Version Dedicated To Joey Ramone. At Warped Tour July 26 2008 @ Nassau Colosseum C. J. Ramone Came On Stage During Pennywise's Set And Played Blitzkrieg Bop With The Band. * This Song Is Arguably One Of The Most Popular Punk Rock Songs And Is Considered By Many To Be The "punk Rock Anthem." Notable Covers * The Song Has Been Covered By Various Artists Including Studio Versions By Rob Zombie The Beautiful South Screeching Weasel The Hanson Brothers The Offspring. * Die Toten Hosen Covered The Song For The 1991 Cover Album Learning English Lesson One. It Features Joey Ramone As A Guest Musician. * Green Day Covered This Song Along With "Teenage Lobotomy" At The 2002 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony For The Remaining Member Of The Ramones And Regularly Play The Song Live Sometimes Getting Kids Out Of The Audience To Play The Song On Their Instruments Though More Usually The Song "Knowledge". Furthermore Their Track "St. Jimmy" From The Album American Idiot Uses The Same Chord Progression But In A Different Tempo. In Addition Their Song "Welcome To Paradise" Features This Chord Progression Backwards In The Same Tempo But With The Guitar Half A Step Down. It Is Easy To Notice This By Listening To "Welcome To Paradise" Backwards. * Skid Row Covered The Song On Their 1990 Video Oh Say Can You Scream. * The Mescaleros Put The Song Into Their Live Set During 2001 As Joe Strummer Wanted To Pay Tribute To Joey Ramone Who Died In That Year. * The Punk Band The Casualties Covers The Song When On Tour. * Finnish Rock Band Hanoi Rocks Covered The Song In Almost Every Gig In The Middle 80's. * Christian Punk Band The Huntingtons Covered This Song On Their Album Rocket To Ramonia. * This Song Has Been Covered By The Misfits In 2004 At A Live Performance. Only Bootleg Recordings Of This Performance Exist Under The Name Buried In A Pet Semetary A Live Tribute To The Ramones. This Recording Features Marky Ramone On Drums As Per The Band's Line-Up At The Time. * Kaori Shimizu Covered This Song In 2009 3 . * Short Stack Covered The Song In Their 2009 Princess Ball Tour. Use In Media This Song Has Been Featured In Numerous Venues Across The Spectrum Of Popular Culture Including * As Playable Tracks In Music Video Games Rock Band Rock Revolution And Battle Of The Bands. * As Background Music In The Video Games Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 MLB 08 The Show And NHL 2K9. * In Television Ads For The "Cingular"/AT&T Go-Phone. * In The Films Rock 'n' Roll High School 1979 National Lampoon's Vacation 1983 Detroit Rock City 1999 Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius 2001 Shattered Glass 2003 Accepted 2006 And New World Disorder Freeride Mountain Biking Movie Series 2007 . * In The TV Series "Space Above And Beyond" "Space 2063" Outside The US 1995 . * In The King Of Queens Episode "Icky Shuffle". * In The Bronx Is Burning Episode "Team In Turmoil" And Several Episodes After That. * In The 100th Episode Of Family Guy. * In The Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror XVIII. * In The Entourage Episode " I Wanna Be Sedated?". * In Stephen King's Novel Pet Sematary The Phrase "hey Ho Let's Go" Is Quoted Several Times. * In 90210 Episode Hollywood Forever.
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Ramones Were A Punk Rock Band That Formed In Queens New York United States In 1974. They Are Often Cited As The First Punk Group. Despite Achieving Only Limited Commercial Success The Band Was A Major Influence On The Punk Rock Movement Both In The United States And The United Kingdom. All Of The Band Members Adopted Pseudonyms Ending With The Surname "Ramone" Though None Of Them Were Related. They Performed 2 263 Concerts Touring Virtually Nonstop For 22 Years. In 1996 After A Tour With The Lollapalooza Music Festival The Band Played A Farewell Concert And Disbanded. By A Little More Than Eight Years After The Breakup The Band's Three Founding Members—lead Singer Joey Ramone Guitarist Johnny Ramone And Bassist Dee Dee Ramone—had Died. Drummer Tommy Ramone The Last Surviving Original Member Died In 2014. Their Only Record With Enough U.S. Sales To Be Certified Gold Was The Compilation Album Ramones Mania. However Recognition Of The Band's Importance Built Over The Years And They Are Now Cited In Many Assessments Of All-Time Great Rock Music Such As The Rolling Stone List Of The 50 Greatest Artists Of All Time And VH1's 100 Greatest Artists Of Hard Rock. In 2002 The Ramones Were Ranked The Second-Greatest Band Of All Time By Spin Magazine Trailing Only The Beatles. On March 18 2002 The Ramones—including The Three Founders And Drummers Marky And Tommy Ramone—were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. In 2011 The Group Was Awarded A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Formation 1974–1975
Forest Hills High School Attended By The Four Original Members Of The Ramones The Original Members Of The Band Met In And Around The Middle-Class Neighborhood Of Forest Hills In The New York City Borough Of Queens. John Cummings And Tamás Erdélyi Had Both Been In A High-School Garage Band From 1966 To 1967 Known As The Tangerine Puppets. They Became Friends With Douglas Colvin Who Had Recently Moved To The Area From Germany And Jeffry Hyman Who Was The Initial Lead Singer Of The Glam Rock Band Sniper Founded In 1972. The Ramones Began Taking Shape In Early 1974 When Cummings And Colvin Invited Hyman To Join Them In A Band. The Initial Lineup Featured Colvin On Lead Vocals And Rhythm Guitar Cummings On Lead Guitar And Hyman On Drums. Colvin Who Soon Switched From Rhythm Guitar To Bass Was The First To Adopt The Name "Ramone" Calling Himself Dee Dee Ramone. He Was Inspired By Paul McCartney's Use Of The Pseudonym Paul Ramon During His Silver Beatles Days. Dee Dee Convinced The Other Members To Take On The Name And Came Up With The Idea Of Calling The Band The Ramones. Hyman And Cummings Became Joey Ramone And Johnny Ramone Respectively. A Friend Of The Band Monte A. Melnick Later Their Tour Manager Helped To Arrange Rehearsal Time For Them At Manhattan's Performance Studios Where He Worked. Johnny's Former Bandmate Erdélyi Was Set To Become Their Manager. Soon After The Band Was Formed Dee Dee Realized That He Could Not Sing And Play His Bass Guitar Simultaneously With Erdélyi's Encouragement Joey Became The Band's New Lead Singer. Dee Dee Would Continue However To Count Off Each Song's Tempo With His Signature Rapid-Fire Shout Of "1-2-3-4!" Joey Soon Similarly Realized That He Could Not Sing And Play Drums Simultaneously And Left The Position Of Drummer. While Auditioning Prospective Replacements Erdélyi Would Often Take To The Drums And Demonstrate How To Play The Songs. It Became Apparent That He Was Able To Perform The Group's Music Better Than Anyone Else And He Joined The Band As Tommy Ramone. The Ramones Played Before An Audience For The First Time On March 30 1974 At Performance Studios. The Songs They Played Were Very Fast And Very Short Most Clocked In At Under Two Minutes. Around This Time A New Music Scene Was Emerging In New York Centered Around Two Clubs In Downtown Manhattan—Max's Kansas City And More Famously CBGB Usually Referred To As CBGB's . The Ramones Made Their CBGB Debut On August 16. Legs McNeil Who Cofounded Punk Magazine The Following Year Later Described The Impact Of That Performance "They Were All Wearing These Black Leather Jackets. And They Counted Off This Song...And It Was Just This Wall Of Noise.... They Looked So Striking. These Guys Were Not Hippies. This Was Something Completely New." The Band Swiftly Became Regulars At The Club Playing There Seventy-Four Times By The End Of The Year. After Garnering Considerable Attention For Their Performances—which Averaged About Seventeen Minutes From Beginning To End—the Group Was Signed To A Recording Contract In Late 1975 By Seymour Stein Of Sire Records. Stein's Wife Linda Stein Had Seen The Band Play At CBGB She Would Later Co-Manage Them Along With Danny Fields. By This Time The Ramones Were Recognized As Leaders Of The New Scene That Was Increasingly Being Referred To As "punk". The Group's Unusual Frontman Had A Lot To Do With Their Impact. As Dee Dee Explained "All The Other Singers In New York Were Copying David Johansen Of The New York Dolls Who Was Copying Mick Jagger.... But Joey Was Unique Totally Unique." read less
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"Blitzkrieg Bop" is a song by punk rock band The Ramones. The band's inaugural single, it was released in April 1976 in the United States. It was recorded for and appeared as the lead track on the band's first album, Ramones, also released that month.
The song, whose composition was credited to the band as a whole, was written by bassist Dee Dee Ramone (lyrics) and drummer Tommy Ramone (music and lyrics). Based on a simple three-chord pattern, "Blitzkrieg Bop" opens with the chant "Hey! Ho! Let's go!". The song is popular at sporting events, especially baseball games, where "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" is sometimes shouted as a rallying cry.
"Blitzkrieg Bop" is number 92 on the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 31 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks, and in 2008 Rolling Stone Placed it number 18 on top 100 of Best Guitar Songs of All Time. In 2009 it was named the 25th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.
Origin and meaning
"Blitzkrieg Bop" was named after the German World War II tactic blitzkrieg, which literally means "lightning war". The song was mainly written by drummer Tommy Ramone, while bassist Dee Dee Ramone came up with the title (the song was originally called "Animal Hop"). Dee Dee also changed one line: The original third verse had the line "shouting in the back now", but Dee Dee changed it to "shoot 'em in the back now". The precise meaning and subject matter of the song are, unlike many of The Ramones' other early compositions, somewhat vague and obscure. It may be a reference to attacking the exposed flank of tanks during a blitzkrieg operation, while some fans contend, based on lines such as "Shoot 'em in the back now", that the song tells of gang violence, which would seem to be more in line with the bands' other songs of that era. But it is more likely that the song is simply about having a good time at a concert, perhaps an ode to early punk fans. If the third-verse line had not been changed the song meaning would be the latter
Composition
"Blitzkrieg Bop" keeps a 4/4 timing drum beat, with a 8th note down stroke guitar and bass, that has a three chord riff A D E, until the breakdown of the song occurs with the chant, "Hey! Ho! Let's go!". The chorus contains a slight variation on the chord pattern with a B three bars before the end of the chorus (D,A,D,A,D,B,D,E).
Dedications
* The punk rock band Blitzkrieg Bop took their name after the song title.
* A monthly club night at the Arches in Glasgow is named after the song.
* Pennywise has done a cover version dedicated to Joey Ramone. At Warped Tour July 26, 2008 @ Nassau Colosseum, C. J. Ramone came on stage during Pennywise's set and played Blitzkrieg Bop with the band.
* This song is arguably one of the most popular punk rock songs, and is considered by many to be the "punk rock anthem."
Notable covers
* The song has been covered by various artists including studio versions by Rob Zombie, The Beautiful South, Screeching Weasel, The Hanson Brothers, The Offspring.
* Die Toten Hosen covered the song for the 1991 cover album Learning English, Lesson One. It features Joey Ramone as a guest musician.
* Green Day covered this song along with "Teenage Lobotomy" at the 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony for the remaining member of the Ramones, and regularly play the song live, sometimes getting kids out of the audience to play the song on their instruments, though more usually the song "Knowledge". Furthermore, their track "St. Jimmy" from the album American Idiot uses the same chord progression, but in a different tempo. In addition, their song "Welcome to Paradise" features this chord progression backwards in the same tempo, but with the guitar half a step down. It is easy to notice this by listening to "Welcome to Paradise" backwards.
* Skid Row covered the song on their 1990 video Oh Say Can You Scream.
* The Mescaleros put the song into their live set during 2001 as Joe Strummer wanted to pay tribute to Joey Ramone who died in that year.
* The punk band The Casualties covers the song when on tour.
* Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks covered the song in almost every gig in the middle 80's.
* Christian punk band The Huntingtons covered this song on their album Rocket to Ramonia.
* This song has been covered by The Misfits in 2004 at a live performance. Only bootleg recordings of this performance exist under the name Buried in a Pet Semetary: A Live Tribute to the Ramones. This recording features Marky Ramone on drums, as per the band's line-up at the time.
* Kaori Shimizu covered this song in 2009[3].
* Short Stack covered the song in their 2009 Princess Ball tour.
Use in media
This song has been featured in numerous venues across the spectrum of popular culture, including:
* As playable tracks in music video games Rock Band, Rock Revolution and Battle of the Bands.
* As background music in the video games Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 , MLB 08: The Show and NHL 2K9.
* In television ads for the "Cingular"/AT&T Go-Phone.
* In the films Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Detroit Rock City (1999), Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), Shattered Glass (2003), Accepted (2006) and New World Disorder (Freeride Mountain Biking Movie Series) (2007).
* In The TV Series "Space: Above and Beyond" ("Space: 2063" Outside the US) [1995].
* In The King of Queens episode "Icky Shuffle".
* In The Bronx is Burning episode "Team in Turmoil" and several episodes after that.
* In the 100th Episode of Family Guy.
* In The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XVIII.
* In the Entourage episode " I Wanna Be Sedated?".
* In Stephen king's novel Pet Sematary the phrase "hey, ho, let's go" is quoted several times.
* In 90210 episode Hollywood Forever.
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