It features Joey Ramone as a guest musician.
Joe Strummer also played the song live with his later band, the Mescaleros. The Clash played it during their 1978 tour.The song has been covered by various artists including studio versions by Rob Zombie (for his 2003 released album Past, Present & Future), The Beautiful South, Jason Mraz, Screeching Weasel, New Found Glory and Agnostic Front.A monthly club night at the Arches in Glasgow was named after the song.The punk rock band Blitzkrieg Bop took their name after the song title.At the band's final show, they played the song at an extremely fast tempo (Prestissimo), well above 200 bpm. When the band performed the song live, they started to play it at even faster tempos, gradually increasing the speed throughout their career. The song was originally played at a very fast tempo (Allegrissimo), or roughly 177 bpm. Occasional crashes are used to accentuate certain beats. Constant eighth notes are played on the hi hat cymbals during the verses, and on the floor tom whilst the singer shouts "Hey, Ho, Let's Go!", whereas quarter notes are used on the ride cymbal during the refrain. The drummer maintains a steady backbeat on the kick and snare throughout the entire song. The singer's vocal melody relies on five of the seven notes found in the A major scale A, B, C Template:Music, D, and E. Both the rhythm guitar and bass parts, played using downstrokes exclusively, utilize almost constant eighth notes to generate a "wall of sound". The bassist simply played the root note of whatever chord the guitarist was playing. The guitarist played the entire song with barre chord shapes, as these were signature to his playing style. The ii chord appears only briefly towards the end of the refrain. The song relies heavily on the I, IV, and V chords, most notably used in the intro and verses in the form of the I–IV–V chord progression. It contains four chords A major (I), B minor (ii), D major (IV), and E major (V). "Blitzkrieg Bop" is a 4/4 time song written in the key of A. It was based on the line: 'High Hose nipped her toes' from the song, "Walking The Dog" by Rufus Thomas." Composition Tommy Ramone tells about the chant in Ramones: Soundtrack Of Our Lives, written by Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone: "I came up with the chant walking home from the grocery store carrying a bag of groceries. The precise meaning and subject matter of the song are, unlike many of The Ramones' other early compositions, somewhat vague and obscure. 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 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").
"Blitzkrieg Bop" was named after the German World War II tactic blitzkrieg, which means "lightning war". In 2009 it was named the 25th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.
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 of the top 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. "Blitzkrieg Bop" is number 92 on the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. 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, particularly in the city of Glasgow where fans chant "Hey! Ho! Glasgow!" The song, whose composition was credited to the band as a whole, was written by drummer Tommy Ramone (music and lyrics) and bassist Dee Dee Ramone (lyrics). It appeared as the opening track on the band's debut album, Ramones, that was released April 23, 1976. It was released as the band's debut single in February 1976 in the United States. " Blitzkrieg Bop" is a song by the American punk rock band Ramones.
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