Taggy Tones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Ramones Rockabilly Cover) - Video
PUBLISHED:  Mar 22, 2011
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From '' Rockin' ''
Label: E.S.P. Recordings ‎– ESP 911-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: Denmark
Released: 2003

Tracklist
01. Wicked Whale
Backing Vocals – Ulf Taube
02. She's Hot
03. It's Got Me Rockin'
04. Rockabilly Rumble
Saxophone – Hans Nybo
05. Folsom Prison Blues
Acoustic Guitar [Second] – Ulf Taube
Lead Vocals – Colin Clark
Written-By – Johnny Cash
06. Endless Road
Lap Steel Guitar – Lynge Wagner
07. My Girl Should Be Like That
08. Ain't The One
09. Memories Keep On Haunting Me
Lead Vocals – Kim Nekroman
10. Blitzkrieg Bop
Written-By – Ramones
11. Bring All My Love
Written-By – Eric Haamers, Jeroen Haamers, Johnny Zuidhof
12. One Way Love
13. Gone
Acoustic Guitar – Ulf Taube
14. Burning Love
Written-By – Dennis Linde
15. Theme From Olsen Banden
Written-By – Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
16. My Kinda Rockin'
Backing Vocals – Emma Rice, Mikael Findanis, Paolo Molinari, Ulf Taube
Written-By – P. Paul Fenech

Written-By – Emil Øelund (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 12, 13),
Frank Rothstein (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 12, 13),
Jakob Øelund (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 12, 13),
Jess Møller Rasmussen (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 12, 13)

Track 16 recorded in February 2001.
Track 11 recorded in May 2001.
Tracks 1, 3, 4 and 13 recorded in July 2001.
Tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 and 15 recorded in May 2002.

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"Blitzkrieg Bop" is a song by the American punk rock band Ramones. It was released as the band's debut single in April of 1976 in the United States. It appeared as the lead track on the band's debut album, Ramones, also released that month.

"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.

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 at Nassau Colosseum, C. J. Ramone came on stage during Pennywise's set and played Blitzkrieg Bop with the band.

Notable covers

The song has been covered by various artists including studio versions by Rob Zombie (for his 2003 released album 'Past, Present and Future'), The Beautiful South, Jason Mraz, Screeching Weasel and The Hanson Brothers.
Die Toten Hosen covered the song for the 1991 cover album Learning English, Lesson One. It features Joey Ramone as a guest musician.
Dee Dee Ramone performed bass and backing vocals for the Youth Gone Mad version, included on the Ramones Maniacs tribute album and the posthumous Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone album.
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 popular culture

"Blitzkrieg Bop" has been featured in numerous venues across the spectrum of popular culture, including:

It was featured as a playable track in music video games Rock Band, Rock Revolution and Battle of the Bands.
In video games: MLB 08: The Show, NHL 11, NHL 2K9, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, WarioWare, Inc.
In film: 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), Final Destination 3 (2006), New World Disorder (2007), Date Night (2010)
In TV series: 90210, The Bronx is Burning, Entourage, Everybody Hates Chris, The King of Queens, The Simpsons, Space: Above and Beyond
In Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary the phrase "hey, ho, let's go" is quoted several times.
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