Word: blitzkrieg
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...Hearing the record for the first time, playing it as loud as I played everything in those days, I had no idea how much it would change my life. I just knew I liked it - a lot. The first song was just perfect - " Blitzkrieg Bop" - opening with what became one of the patented Ramones chants: "Hey ho, let's go!" over a fast tom-tom pattern. Suddenly the guitar and bass came in, and the effect was like a plane taking off; you felt driven back into your seat. It was the heavy unison riffs we loved so much...
...part-inventor of lots of things punk, most notably the stripping of pop to its rawest elements: guitars, drums and four chords. And for all that we here at the Arts section salute him. Check out “I Wanna Be Sedated” or “Blitzkrieg Bop” —fast, cheap and out of control, these are songs that clock in and out in under three minutes, songs that should’ve been hit singles for a band that at its heart loved pop. Fled is that music?...
...legacy of Genghis endures. Frigid winters and parched summers have reduced the once proud nomads to medieval poverty, fighting for the survival of their traditional way of life. And although full-time herding may be dying out, riding the stocky ponies that were the panzers of Genghis' galloping blitzkrieg is still the best way for travelers to explore Mongolia's expanses...
...just say 'hey, stop right there.' There's a very narrow area to work with. You're looking forward to the hearing. It's very difficult to walk that fine line. And I don't look the part, I'm in full uniform. It's kind of a blitzkrieg thing...
...recent wars--against Iraq and Yugoslavia--Army officers were leery of pushing their tanks to Baghdad or Belgrade over flimsy bridges. If orders had come to take those capitals, engineers would have had to spend weeks reinforcing the spans or putting up new ones, hardly a blueprint for a blitzkrieg...