Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop

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  Song Meaning:To me, this song is about Baby Boomers who were the children of WWII veterans. I think that it is pretty obvious.
  
  

  Flag skasucks09on October 27, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:Blitzkrieg, as many have said, has to do with the war. A giant group of soldiers, planes, infantry, armies rolling in a straight line, shooting others in backs, creating gunpowder steam. BOP is also another way of saying Breach of Peace- put it together and I find it interesting! The blitzkrieg is used just for that- breach of peace in war! Of course, you could then say this song is simply about teens and sex or mindless millions of teens, dancing, pulsating, etc, etc...

  Flag bigfatliar40on October 26, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:Does anyone else think their talking about like..a rally?
  "kids" piling in a car driving to a site with picket signs n stuff and the cops getting there "forming in a straight line" and shooting em up??
  just a thought..and it seems like a rebellious song...
  
  yay or nay kidz?

  Flag iaminenglishclasson December 13, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:this song is an ironic commentary on the brainwashing which the nazi youth experienced. they would get all pumped up to go kill people but not be fully aware of the reality of what they were doing. the victims are being lined up for execution, the nazis have lost their minds because of the extent to which they have been brainwashed. the victims were also often transported at in the back of army vehicles and they were executed using gas (steam heat). the nazis were trained to be excited and supportive of murders although the exact reasons for the murders were not often known.

  Flagged bobdabomb123on November 27, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:OK, I'll show my age here since none of you grew up back then....
  Blitzkrieg is a word used for WWII Germany's Lightning War, and Bop was a dance..... but common!
  "They're generating steam heat
  Pulsating to the back beat "
  This song is about teenage sex in the back of a car!
  Bop was a word for sex back then!
  Look up Cyndi Lauper's song SHE BOP. It's about masturbation and rarely played because of it.
  (times have changed, now you can describe sex graphically and nobody cares...)
  Joey Ramone was Jewish (and related to Howard Stern), so I'm sure he's not singing a pro-Nazi song!
  Punk music is usually about sex, rebellion and having a good time!

  Flag Stahlhelmson December 19, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:its about the youth being pursuated into a numbing state of mind. They get influenced by the corporations and the media with the same effeciency as you could find in the germans Blitzkrieg. The youth are being led to a low state of mind where they dont think. So when they dont think they wont ask questions. When they dont ask questions the corporations can do with them what they want.
  
  And what will the youth get? What is the trade? In this song they say they get sex, but they get all kinds of pleasure luxuries, not only sex.
  
  So in the end they say "What they want, I don't know", thats the corporations that are speaking. They dont care about anyone. They just want to shoot you in the back, or in other words, exploit the hell out of you.
  
  And in order to do this, they had to blietzkrieg the minds through the media.

  Flag exeon August 23, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:its about teen sex
  "They're piling in the back seat
  They're generating steam heat
  Pulsating to the back beat
  The Blitzkrieg Bop."
  
  

  Flag conman187on July 05, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:"Blitzkrieg" means lightning war, not lightning strike or lightning speed. It has nothing to do with bombing a city, and everything to do with speed of advance, especially using highly mechanized forces.
  
  In the music context, the Ramones made a high-speed assault on the schlock that was the pop music of the day with a high-tempo alternative, music that moved fast. And more than a few of "the kids" loved it.
  

  Flag NAwlinsContrarianon June 28, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:no people blitzkrieg means ice cream jelly!
  
  derrr
  quit yer fucking arguing

  Flag buttholesurfer69on April 09, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Blitzkrieg translates to Lightning war.
  But this song is actually about an ice cream flavour

  Flag click01on March 29, 2009   Link

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