Lyrics for Blitzkrieg Bop as interpreted by kevin

Blitzkrieg Bop Lyrics
Hey, ho, let's go
Hey, ho, let's go
Hey, ho, let's go
Hey, ho, let's go

They're forming in a straight line
They're going through a tight wind
The kids are losing their minds
The Blitzkrieg Bop

They're piling in the back seat
They're generating steam heat
Pulsating to the back beat
The Blitzkrieg Bop

Hey ho, let's go
Shoot them in the back now
What they want, I don't know
They're all revved up and ready to go

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exe
08-23-2009

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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.

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conman187
07-05-2009

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



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NAwlinsContrarian
06-28-2009

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"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.


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buttholesurfer69
04-09-2009

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no people blitzkrieg means ice cream jelly!

derrr
quit yer fucking arguing

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click01
03-29-2009

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

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snacman8
03-15-2009

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everyone who says this is about Germans is wrong. I saw a video about the Ramones, and Joey said the song was inspired by them being "into bubblegum pop at the time, and they wanted to have their own chant." Also, he said that DeeDee changed the line "shouting in the back now" to "'Shoot'em In the back now,' which is kind of a nonsequitur if you think about it" so, it really had nothing to do with killing

I might have said the wrong Ramone, but i know that Joey said the first one

I agree with all the people who said it was about the concerts

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cato
01-11-2009

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hahaha.
thank you, clovus, this discussion was needing someone like you xD

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copernicus
10-21-2008

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not sure about the whole song, but the "hey, ho, lets go" chant is a tribute to the NY Dolls.

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clovus
10-02-2008

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Wow, this has to be the most entertaining thread I've read so far. I loved veggie's troll post that mentioned Good Charlotte and Limp Bizkit being REAL punk. Did no one see the last part that also included *John Mayer*??? He even posted again a few lines down saying it was a JOKE! You know, what is really funny is that although Mayers music is often horrible, he can really play the guitar. He could probably do a good imitation of the Ramones. He's also actually funny too. I don't know why he makes such terrible music when he makes an album though.

You crazy punk fans are hilarious. You want punk? How about some real punk like the bands that influenced the Ramones. That would include bubblegum oldies and the Beach Boys. Their version of punk was created when they tried to re-create that but failed.

The crazy bickering about the meaning of "blitzkrieg" was really nice to. I especially loved the complicated meanings that involved WWII info that the writers probably didn't know. Especially the guy who just saw Swing Kids and thinks the Ramones wrote a song about it. I seriously doubt the Ramones were aware of the Nazi's oppression of Swing dancers. Yikes.

Overall though, the ideas behind this song have been fleshed out. Kids going crazy at a concert, and having sex in a very uncomfortable place (the back of a car, you perv! Mallrats, anyone?). The brilliant non-sequiter "shoot 'em in the back now" combined with "Blitzkrieg" gives the song a strange darker side though.

But please get over the whole PUNK thing. There are all kinds of music, there is no such thing as REAL PUNK or something. Some prog rock is actually good, some country is good, and I'm sure there is good hip-hop out there, but I haven't found it yet.

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Guava
07-10-2008

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god, i heard this song a million years ago on a tony hawk game. the memories are amazing.

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facuhagopian
06-17-2008

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I think this song is about youngs punkrockers in the early times of punkrock and the chorus is a sarcasm of the people how they see punkrockers and the blitzkrieg bop is just punkrock music. Sorry of my english, i`m from argentina and i love the ramones, argentina really loves they too

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MissNeurotic
03-29-2008

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Haha... Oh my god!! Who said Ramones is not punk and Good Charlotte is????? What a fucktard! Oh man, I'd love to punch that person in the eye.

Bands like Good Charlotte raped punk music!! They're just those shitty mtv fags who think image is more important than ideals and attitude.

Good Charlotte has nothing to do with punk!! End of the story.

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Srm93
03-12-2008

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Everybody's got it all wrong. I hope not to offend, but you guys should learn history. This song is about Swing Dancing in World War II Germany. The Nazis would literally kill anyone who participated in any kind of new dancing or art. This is where they got the lyrics "shoot 'em in the back now." They would do this because they thought that there was a secret behind the dancing, some sort of a new revolution. This is where "what they want, I don't know" comes from. Also, the "Kids are losing their minds" line might have something to do with the intensity of the type of dancing. There was a lot of jerking movements. As to the point that the Blitzkrieg Bop was actually a dance, i have no clue.

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zackadoom
02-13-2008

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Actually ROCKLOB, blitzkrieg does NOT mean lighting speed, translated it means Flash (lightning) WAR not speed

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dhawk
12-31-2007

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It's about a freaking concert. Ok? It's about a freaking concert. It's about teens going to a Ramones Concert alright? And Blitzkreig means "Lightning War" and they're referring to the lights at the concert.

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Richard Enahobo
12-08-2007

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"I think it's super funny how people are all 'Ramones aren't even punk, listen to Good Charlotte and Limp Biskit'"

Who the fuck said that?

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themagnetc
12-03-2007

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this song is a precursor to the mosh pit and just about how punk music gets its fans riled up.

i have heard that this song is also responsible for spawning nazi punk, which is the dumbest shit ever if it did. and even if it didn't, nazi punk was still retarded. how can you be a punk in a totaltarian system? you can't say "fuck authority" and "heil hitler" and mean both.

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Shocktreatment77
11-15-2007

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"Blitzkrieg Bop" was written by Tommy and Dee Dee; Tommy wrote the basic song, and Dee Dee came up with the title and the "shoot 'em in the back now" line. It's about the excitement of rock. Tommy wanted a song that sounded like the chant in "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers, and the title was probably inspired by "The Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet.

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Icaby
11-02-2007

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I think it's super funny how people are all "Ramones aren't even punk, listen to Good Charlotte and Limp Biskit".
Haha! Ramones helped INVENT punk. It's those trashy as bands that aren't punk. God. Wisen up rednecks

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seenthings
09-18-2007

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id like to add i forgot to add its only obvious in the verse it says hey hoe lets go!

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seenthings
09-18-2007

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this song is about a hoe, and boys having sex with her in the back seat of a car..they "form a line", they go through a "tight" wind, blitzkrieg bop aka boning like used in she bop by heart. well its clear in the second stanza its sexual.

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newforestfairy
09-18-2007

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i always thought it was about pogo-ing at punk gigs, you know, the dance? or was that a british punk thing?

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patchwork cat
08-29-2007

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It means it's the RAMONES!! If you listen it's' A-O let's go' Hey Ho sounds like Shakespeare, not punk.
The Ramones weren't quite the first punk band (in the denims and leather jacket and filthy long hair style) there was the MC5 for a start. Oddly the Ramones were also influenced by Scotland's Bay City Rollers and stuff like their first single 'Keep On Dancing'

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punksandskinsoi
07-28-2007

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well...tommy wrote most of it..and he didn't write many songs soo it may have a bit different meaning than a few other ramones songs. i don't really care what the song means. blitzkrieg is a fast war tactic used by the germans, used by tanks and infantry men moving across the field in trenches very quickly and a surprise attack. so it's just a fast large attack no matter where it's coming from...just to clear that up.

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drunkcow0355
05-26-2007

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Indeed, "blitzkrieg" means "lightning warfare," and it was Hitler's method of choice when taking over the surrounding counrties during WWII. I think this song is about that method of completely sudden chaos, and it talks about the people suddenly being rounded up in the SS trucks, ("they're being piled in the backseat") brought to concentration camps, where they were lined up and shot to death, then their bodies would be thrown on a truck an taken to be mas buried or burned.

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