THE RAMONES "BLITZKRIEG BOP"1976 DUTCH IMPORT W/PS RARE

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THIS IS A SUPER RARE RAMONES SINGLE FROM 1976 ON THE PHILIPS LABEL, LISCENCED FROM SIRE RECORDS OF THEIR SEMINAL "HIT"... "BLITZKREIG BOP" (2:12) b/w "CALIFORNIA SUN"(2:00) & "I DON'T WANNA WALK AROUND WITH YOU" (1:50) RECORDED LIVE AT THE ROXY IN HOLLYWOOD,CA. THIS IS A DUTCH IMPORT. THE CATALOG # IS PHILIPS 6078 504.. THE DATE 1976 IS ALSO ETCHED IN THE MATRIX NUMBERS INSIDE THE DEAD WAX. BOTH LABLES HAVE A SMALL "SPOT" ABOUT 1/4" WHERE IS LOOKS LIKE A SMALL STICKER, MAYBE A PRICE STICKER WITH AN ADHESIVE BACKING WAS REMOVED LEAVING A VERY SMALL BLEM ON THE PAPER OF THE LABLE, THIS CAN BE SEEN IN BOTH PICTURES ABOVE,OTHER THAN THAT THE RECORD IS NM. THE VINYL ON BOTH SIDES LOOKS UNPLAYED, DEEP SHINEY BLACK, NO SCUFFS, DINGS, SCRATCHES OR MARKS OF ANY KIND. THE PICTURE SLEEVE IS IN VG+ CONDITION, NO TEARS, RIPS, WRITING, OR MARKS, THERE IS MILD WEAR ALONG THE TOP/OPENING AND MILD RING WEAR THAT IS HARDLY VISIBLE. THIS BELONGS TO IT'S ORIGINAL OWNER WHO HATES TO PART WITH IT, AND I AM SELLING IT ON THEIR BEHALF, THE ECONOMY BEING WHAT IT IS. WE ARE SETTING A FAIR RESERVE ON THIS, IF YOU ARE A RAMONES COLLECTOR YOU KNOW IT'S VALUE, OTHERS INTERESTED PLEASE DO SOME RESEARCH ON POSIKE/GEMM OR OTHER SITES THAT SHOW WHAT RECORDS LIKE THIS HAVE GONE FOR IN THE PAST. WE WILL PROVIDE DELIVERY CONFIRMATION IF SOLD IN THE U.S., AND IF SOLD TO AN INTERNATIONAL BIDDER, WE WILL WORK WITH YOU TO MAKE SURE IT IS PACKED SAFELY AND CAN BE TRACKED... HERE'S A LITTLE MORE INFO ON THE BAND AND THE SONGS ON THE 45. GOOD LUCK!

The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, often cited as the first punk rock 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.

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.

Spearheading punk: 1976–1977

The Ramones recorded their debut album, Ramones, in February 1976. Of the fourteen songs on the album, the longest, "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", barely surpassed two-and-a-half minutes. While the songwriting credits were shared by the entire band, Dee Dee was the primary writer. Ramones was produced by Sire's Craig Leon, with Tommy as associate producer, on an extremely low budget of about $6,400 and released in April. The now iconic front cover photograph of the band was taken by Roberta Bayley, a photographer for Punk magazine.

Ramones was not a commercial success, reaching only number 111 on the Billboard album chart. The two singles released from the album, "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", failed to chart at all. At the band's first major performance outside of New York, a June date in Youngstown, Ohio, approximately ten people showed up. It wasn't until they made a brief tour of England that they began to see the fruits of their labor; a performance at The Roundhouse in London on July 4, 1976 (second-billed to the Flamin' Groovies), organized by Linda Stein, was a resounding success. Their Roundhouse appearance and a club date the following night—where the band met members of the Sex Pistols and The Clash—helped galvanize the burgeoning UK punk rock scene. The Flamin' Groovies/Ramones double bill was successfully reprised at The Roxy in Los Angeles the following month, fueling the punk scene there as well. The Ramones were becoming an increasingly popular live act—a Toronto performance in September energized yet another growing punk scene.

Their next two albums, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia, were released in 1977. Both were coproduced by Tommy and Tony Bongiovi, the second cousin of Jon Bon Jovi. Leave Home met with even less chart success than Ramones, though it did include "Pinhead", which became one of the band's signature songs with its chanted refrain of "Gabba gabba hey!" Rocket to Russia was the band's highest-charting album to date, reaching number 49 on the Billboard 200. In Rolling Stone, critic Dave Marsh called it "the best American rock & roll of the year". The album also featured the first Ramones single to enter the Billboard charts (albeit only as high as number 81): "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker". The follow-up single, "Rockaway Beach", reached number 66—the highest any Ramones single would ever reach in America. On December 31, 1977, the Ramones recorded It's Alive, a live concert double album, at the Rainbow Theatre, London, which was released in April 1979 (the title is a reference to the 1974 horror film It's Alive).

"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.

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 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.

Composition

The time signature for this song is 4/4. The first chordal pattern in the intro goes as follows A, D, E. Until the lyrical motif of "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" occurs. The chorus contains a slight variation of the first chord progression (introduced in the intro) chord pattern with a B three bars before the end of the chorus (D,A,D,A,D,B,D,E). The majority of the chords played within this song would be "power chords" or "bare fifth" chords. This means they lack a third within the chord, this is what determines a chord major or minor (either the 3rd being flat, sharp or natural). Power chords are typical of the punk and rock guitar playing. "Bare fifth's" are also a characterisic of modal music.

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