Modlovecat July 16th, 2005 05:52PM  
Joey Ramone: "I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked The Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'."

Tommy Ramone: "I wrote 'Blitzkrieg Bop,' but Dee Dee contributed the title and he changed one line. There was a line that went, 'They're shouting in the back now.' He changed it to 'Shoot 'em in the back now,' which is a non sequitur. But to him it made sense."

x_lily_x November 23rd, 2007 09:46AM  
It sounds like an air battle to me. It makes sense if you think about it.

kolocow March 28th, 2009 09:00PM  
Its the sound of the words in the song that made it work. A Bop is a gathering or party. Blitzkrieg is a lightening war. Forming in lines to atack. Its about being organised and going out for a good night. The intention to kill, the steam heat of youth. Hey ho..lets go. You can see the luftwaffe pilot pointing to the Stuka's down to Guernica.