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October 16, 2006

Blitzkrieg Kidz Bop

CBGB's may be dead, but punk rock will never go away. Go-Kart Records is doing their part with the release of Brats On The Beat: Ramones For Kids on 11/21. The album features "kiddified" versions of Ramones songs by the Gabba Gabba Hey Singers, a group of young'uns who sing all the choruses and background parts on twelve contemporary punkers' Ramones covers. A portion of the proceeds go to St Judes Children Hospital.

Tracklist:
01. Blitzkrieg Bop – Jim Lindberg (Pennywise)
02. Rock ‘N’ Roll High School – Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio)
03. California Sun – Brett Anderson (The Donnas)
04. Do You Remember Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio? – Greg Attonito (Bouncing Souls)
05. Suzy Is A Headbanger – Nick Oliveri (ex-Queens Of The Stone Age)
06. Rockaway Beach – Blag Dahlia (The Dwarves)
07. I Just Want To Have Something To Do – Emily Wynne-Hughes (Go Betty Go)
08. Spiderman – Ash Guff (Guff)
09. We Want the Airwaves – Spooney (Gabba Gabba Heys)
10. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker – Josie Cotton
11. Cretin Hop – Tony Reflex (Adolescents)
12. Bop ‘Til You Drop – Jack Grisham (TSOL)

Listen to four tunes here.

Posted at 12:52 PM




11 Comments

i am proud to say my 4 1/2 year old twins take their ramones the original way.

http://simonmetz.blogspot.com/2006/09/gabba-gabba-hey.html

Posted by: moe berg at 10/16/06 2:07 PM  | Reply
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little kid voices are annoying.

Posted by: allyson at 10/16/06 2:24 PM  | Reply
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Hire Alvin and the Chipmonks and be done with it.

Posted by: Sarah at 10/16/06 2:36 PM  | Reply
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"hey ho, let's go, {mumble) in the back now!"

Echoing the first post. My kids love the Ramones. They also love Devo 1.0. And the Wiggles, too. I find it better to mix in the real stuff with the kids stuff as opposed to kiddie versions of the real thing. My kids love The Plastic Ono Band just as much as the Little Mermaid soundtrack.

All that said, these kiddie Ramones tunes are crap.

Posted by: P at 10/16/06 3:04 PM  | Reply
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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54049

Says it all about CBGB's!

Posted by: Paul G at 10/16/06 3:21 PM  | Reply
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Well, it's for a good cause, at least, but I think my two-year-old will stick with the originals. She's a purist.

Posted by: Robin at 10/16/06 3:25 PM  | Reply
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God, Blag has to be scraping for cash. This is the worst thing I've ever heard come out of someone's mouth.

Posted by: Cole at 10/16/06 4:40 PM  | Reply
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I wish they would have performed "the KKK took my baby away".

Posted by: jjj at 10/16/06 5:04 PM  | Reply
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Coming soon: a 20-track compilation of Kidz Bop version of Xiu Xiu songs.

Posted by: tjxm at 10/16/06 6:24 PM  | Reply
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Ramones for kids can work, just listen to track 10 on this cd http://cdbaby.com/cd/sippycups

Posted by: ian at 10/16/06 9:19 PM  | Reply
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Do you think that they got a bunch of kids to actually sing punk, or got a bunch of out of work rockers to huff ballons?
/talk amongst yourselves...

Posted by: TheSkiddle at 10/17/06 12:38 AM  | Reply
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