Ramones - "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" - Hey Ho Let's Go Anthology
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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: The Anthology
1999
Produced by: Jean Beauvoir
This is one of the best rocksongs ever. Deserves much more attention!
Absolutely one of their best.
I was very fortunate to be turned on to the Ramones at a very young age, I Have always loved them for who and what they are, with that said, all my children have been raised with all this music, not only the Ramones, but many punk bands throughout the years..... the other day my 18yo daughter heard this song and it made her stop what she was doing to tune into the song, she told me, "dad i heard that one Ramones song, and it instantly made me think of you and when i was a little kid...." Made me Cry a little cause i'm now passing the torch with my children as they get older....never forget the power of music people, no words can express how i feel.....i just know im happy i shared all this amazing music with my children!
Punks Not Dead.
❤️💪🏼
They had the pleasure of hearing the best music it sounds like friend.👍💯🎶🥁
I have three grown daughters that were raised on this stuff. My daughter in 3rd grade wore a Ramones hoodie and black sabbath chuck Taylor sneakers. She's my concert bud now, Alice Cooper and Rob zombie shows are mandatory attendance. But it was embarrassing when they were little and they took rock and rolll high-school everywhere and watched it like the wizard of oz😂. Running around grandma's Easter egg hunt yelling "gabba, gabba hey". Freaked out the normal kids😅
Is it a bad thing I’m thirteen and like this old music better than the new stuff?
Pick up the pieces.......
RIP to everyone of these men. I love the Ramones with all my heart.
i feel ya
CJ is still touring and puts on a good show. Danny plays guitar!
we all do love them, they are the most special band, they accept you and me. RAMONES FEVER
marky is the drummer on this song! he's still alive!
@Trevor Reinhardt you're right
I will never understand why some people don't get The Ramones. Bless their hearts.
Bless you for understanding!
Probably bad signal on their radio or internet
There was a Melody Maker or NME writer (Charles Shaar Murray maybe) who said at the time that if you didn't get the Ramones, you didn't get rock n roll. 100% right.
This is the greatest Ramones song in my opinion how it wasn’t a hit I’ll never know!
One of the best songs ever IMO. Ramones are great. 👍🏻
I remember in 2017 I use to listen to this while riding my bike in the pissing rain going to a job I hate dreaming about having a car , career and a girlfriend... the other day I put this on sat next to my girl with a car on the drive and a welding career along side me and realised how far I’ve come... god bless this song... PICK UP THE PIECES!!!💪❤️
Update 5 months later: I’m so blown away by all the people who liked this commented and commented back, I honestly can’t tell you how much it means to me... cheers guys and girls🙏❤️
Fucking good for you man 🤙
That's happiness
Fkn awesome post
Wish you all the best
Sounds like me, riding in my youth, blastin this great song, dreaming of where I wanted to be in life. Years later, lost all my friends from death, failed marraige with the mother of my children, lost my house, the job I liked being at, custody battle. Now, I'm about to be engaged to a girl that treats me great, won shared joint custody of both my Kids, just got a house with my new girl I'm soon to be married to, got my job back at the same place I loved as a nurse, still jammin this great song! Time to pick up the pieces......as well as inspired that you have as well my Bro! I so feel this post. Keep on picking up the pieces and live the best life you could ever imagine. Always keep one fist in the goal Brother!
Geez 2017 is like nothing ago to me. I was picking up the pieces, from long issues with health from 2006 to 2014, then I just dropped the pieces again.
Awesome man.
Joey was a jew and wrote it because Ronald Reagan went to former West Germany and visited the cemetery of Bitburg, where World War II combatants are buried, including some SS soldiers. Reagan was a retired actor who was in a movie called Bedtime for Bonzo (and Bonzo was a chimp)
Interesting
Didn’t know they could get more punk but here we are 💕💅
This should be the top comment.
This has always been my favorite Ramones tune. Listened to over and over as a teen and still love it. I was fortunate enough to see them live at the Agora Ballroom in West Hartford, CT in 1986. (It was the tour for this song's album -- Animal Boy.)
Me too!!!
My area. Wished I could have gone.
Legends!!!!
thank you for all the gifts you left us. RIP kindred souls.
RIP Kevin Clark, from School of Rock.... he tragically died a couple days ago but I just now learned of it.
The death of Kevin was a tragedy for funs of rock is School of rock 😞🤘
@@myfingershurt3489 The name of the actor who played Zack is Joey Gaydos Jr, and I also found out he got done for drink driving 1 time.
This song was played during a montage scene of School Of Rock, and I heard about Kevin's death. He was the 1 who played Freddy Jones in the movie.
@@MegaTobestar I know his name its called google lol but most people are dumb as hell and ask people what's this person's name lmao
🤘🤘🤘
I cannot listen to this song without singing it out loud. My favorite song to drive to!!! One of my favorite Ramones tunes! You guys are sorely missed. Don't know how I would have gotten throughout the 80's without you R.I.P.
The riffs in this song still give me chills of pleasure.
Hey neighbors WAKE UP FRIDAY
@@michaelrossi9288fuck yeah
It's weird isn't it....? Same
What an amazing song, what a band. This is something special.
This song melts my face.
RIP Freddie Jones a scene I can truly say inspired me when I was a kid .
So sad, he plays on...
Feddie Jones? Shut up
@@Pissedoffcripple school of rock man , legend
fucking legend film
RIP the first Thufir Hawat
This is slowly but surely becoming one of my favorites from them.. such an amazing song..
It’s from this era that I started to notice Joey’s voice becoming more baritone. I’d first seen them live in 1977 . Must have been to 40 Ramones gigs in all. I’m 57 now👍👍
@@LarryBishop69 Cool!! Keep strong brother..
an absolutely incredible song from one of the greatest bands ever. so many brilliant songs but this one really is unique, even for these legendary giants
Craig Staaygear 👍
@@LarryBishop69 u saw them 40 times?! thats so awesome man! absolutely incredible,
One my all time favorite Ramones songs.
It's a shame they aren't still around to release a new single called "A**h0le goes to Arlington".
This song calms my anxiety. Just love it.
Me pasa lo mismo, amo está canción 💚
Man same!
Same, music is my entire life, imo this is one of the best songs of all time.
Hey gabba Gabba Maria!
You should have seen them live! They were playing everywhere back then!
My top 5 songs of all Ramones. I jumped on stage in Morristown, NJ (80's the era of the best music ever)...
Such an amazing song. Seems to get better every time I listen to it. PICK UP THE PIECES!!!!
fuck you
@@nicolasagustinbigoglio452 chillllll doooowwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn
@@Benjamin_Lees_ in your facking face
😀
indeed brutha, indeed
My favorite song of ramones
I love it but for me it's Outsider and Poison Heart in a tie
I have literally been looking for the song Picking Up the pieces for 2 hours. I found it!!!!! Ty so much
I remember when this tune came out in 1986... we obviously didn't have the internet back then, but it was pretty easy to figure out that "Bonzo" was referring to Reagan (if anyone knew anything about his movie career) and his disgraceful speech at Bitburg, Germany.
This came out the year after I first met Joey and Johnny (carrying Dee Dee home on Broadway between 11th-10th streets)... just eight years later I'd be a pro photographer in the city living near Joey. Insane how life works out. Once while at Veselka, Joey told me Johnny didn't like the tune. No wonder fans (of this tune) never heard much about its origin from them until years later; Johnny and Sire quashed that from the get-go.
I've been a Ramones fan for over four decades. This is definitely one of my fav tunes by them.
BTW- I took the photos of Joey's Memorial shrine at CBGBs that were in Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, etc. I was the only pro who took photos; my rep said, "Who's going to want these?" I told her to take them... I knew the Ramones were much more loved than anyone in magazines etc, ever imagined while they were all alive. It's a real shame they didn't get their due until after they all died (except Marky, who was not an original member).
That was my last pro photo shoot before my spinal injury...
Love to every true Ramones fan from back in the day... no one who wasn't there truly gets what their music did for rock n roll (created punk for one) during the prog and disco eras, respectively. Might sound stupid, but we took a lot of grief for wearing our Converse All-Stars and Chuck Taylor's 30 years before they were trendy. We didn't do it to be cool. We didn't think about it, really. It's just what we loved.
To everyone else who gets happiness and joy from their music-- for people who discovered this tune two years after Joey's death, in School of Rock... From talking to Joey throughout the years, that's all he really wanted, was to make people happy. And no, he wasn't mad at Green Day, he told me in 1996 he was glad they were making money.
The Ramones were light-years ahead of their time.
Gabba Gabba HEY!
This was amazing to read.
I always knew I'd been born in the wrong decade and your words here just prove my belief.
^ no one, that was Not alive back then can completely comprehend the impact they had".
Thank you.
I missed it by about 5 years and yes 5 years made a huge difference in the music culture of the time.
Again, thank you
Rest in peace Joey. You were a punk rock GOD.
Never tire of this song! Epic punk rock! ❤❤❤❤
🥰 who knew I'd still be inspired by this 30ish years later. ❤️😊
So grateful to have lived the life I've lived.
Just my humble opinion, but this is easily Joey’s greatest vocal performance. He just nails every note and puts everything in it. I even hear a potential source of influence where Julian Casablancas might have gotten his trademark drawl from.
Agree, my favourite part is the "I need something to slow me down" at 3:30
Has to be their best musically and vocally.
Its cause he was really bothered of Reagan rejecting going to a concentration camp but went to a graveyard with nazi soldiers. The reason why this song has two names is because of Johnny. As a conservative, he disliked the song and made them change it to My brain is hanging upside down.
The most and the greatest band of all time,my favourite band of all time...i miss them so much!
The Ramones are a permanent go to band if I want to listen to some of the best punk ever! One of the top bands I want to play at my funeral, not happening for quite a while I hope, either Blitzkrieg Bop or I don't wanna grow up! 😂🤘👍🙏
My fave Ramones track. Never fails to get my excitement bouncing off the rafters! It's always in my top 100 tracks.💥💥💥
A song for eternity!
วงพังก์ร็อคอันดับ 1 ตลอดกาล "Rest in Peace Legends"
I've been listening to them since I was
What 13 and now I'm 54 to
This song somehow bring back all the good memories... What a time it was! can you feel the same too?
Dee Dee wrote the best songs
He was a genius.
definitely. Poison Heart is next level
this is the best song of ramones.
Punk rock 🤘 hell yeah
After losing my mom, my baby momma, two little brothers, I'm slowly picking up the pieces,
I first heard this in " the school of Rock!!"... loved it every since!!.
My Favorite Ramones song!!
One of my all time favorite songs and a teenager brought me through a lot
You've got to pick up the pieces
You've got to pick up the pieces
C'mon, sort your trash
You better pull yourself back together
Maybe you've got too much cash
Better call, call the law
When you gonna turn yourself in? Yeah
You're a politician
Don't become one of Hitler's children
Bonzo goes to Bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
Pick up the pieces
My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down
Shouldn't wish you happiness, wish her the very best
Fifty thousand dollar dress
Shaking hands with your highness
See through you like cellophane
You watch the world complain, but you do it anyway
Who am I, am I to say
Bonzo goes to Bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
Pick up the pieces
My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down
If there's one thing that makes me sick
It's when someone tries to hide behind politics
I wish that time could go by fast
Somehow they manage to make it last
My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down
C'mon, sort your trash
You better pull yourself back together
Maybe you've got too much cash
Better call, call the law
When you gonna turn yourself in? Yeah
You're a politician
Don't become one of Hitler's children
Bonzo goes to Bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
Pick up the pieces
My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down
Shouldn't wish you happiness, wish her the very best
Fifty thousand dollar dress
Shaking hands with your highness
See through you like cellophane
You watch the world complain, but you do it anyway
Who am I, am I to say
Bonzo goes to Bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
Pick up the pieces
My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down
If there's one thing that makes me sick
It's when someone tries to hide behind politics
I wish that time could go by fast
Somehow they manage to make it last
My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down
Yes dood, maybe the copyright holders can relax the prices cous I ain't buying off the official website . I TS a con there all dead .Johnys wife who the fuck is she ,this will get a bite.
This song makes me smile every time. Ohh happy tears. This is amazing song.
I love ramones. Sad is. best band is death.
47 years and am still smils from Argentina
RAMONES QUERIDOS COMO LOS EXTRAÑAMOS !!!
el mundo necesita rock!
The best track EVER written
One of the best ever by the Ramones 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I’m going through a rough time but this song seems to always make me smile I have no idea why
My favourite Ramones song!
😀
Unless u were born after 73 and before 2002 u dont and never know what it was like to love the ramones
Let Punk music alive again! Punks not dead!
this is one of the songs that saved my life.
This is my favourite song by THE RAMONES.
Me to
definately one of mine. such an upbeat track x
Mine too.
😀
Mine is. I wanna be sedated
One of the best punk rock songs
You've got to pick up the pieces
Come on, sort your trash better
Pull yourself back together
Maybe you've got too much cash
Better, call, call the law
When you gonna turn yourself in, yeah
You're a politician
Don't become one of Hitler's children
Bonzo goes to Bitburg
Then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV
Somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town
To understand your foreign policy
Pick up the pieces
My brain is hanging upside down
(Ah, na-na-na)
I need something to slow me down
(Ah, na-na-na) ooh, yeah
My brain is hanging upside down
(Ah, na-na-na)
And I need something to slow me down
Shoulda wished her happiness
Wish her the very best
50, 000 dollar dress
Shaking hands with your highness
See through you like cellophane
You watch the world complain
But you do it anyway
Who am I, am I to say?
Bonzo goes to Bitburg
Then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV
Somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town
To understand your foreign policy
Pick up the pieces
My brain is hanging upside down
(Ah, na-na-na)
I need something to slow me down
(Ah, na-na-na) ooh, yeah
My brain is hanging upside down
(Ah, na-na-na)
And I need something to slow me down
There's one thing that makes me sick
It's when someone tries to hide behind their politics
I wish that time could go by fast
Somehow they manage to make it last
ooh, yeah
My brain is hanging upside down
(Ah, na-na-na)
I need something to slow me down
(Ah, na-na-na) ooh, yeah
My brain is hanging upside down
(Ah, na-na-na)
And I need something to slow me down
ooh, yeah
My brain is hanging upside down
(Ah, na-na-na)
And I need something to slow me down
(Ah, na-na-na)
My brain is hanging upside down
Have a safe 2023 every one
Such a wonderful song!!!
My favorite rock n roll band ever.
Quote by Steven Lee Beeber “Tommy can take satisfaction in at least one thing. … speak out about his nemesis, denouncing Johnny’s beloved President Reagan for visiting, of all things, a cemetery honoring not just German soldiers, but members of Hitler’s highest order, the true believers of the elite corps known as the SS (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg, Animal Boy, 1986)”
Rock On To Infinity Ramones, God Speed!!!
Best Band of all time…
..I love the ramones
best audio for this song!!
Argentinian people love this .thank you for everthings ...thanks thanks
Y los uruguayos people también saludos !
@@jlafubar2574 jaja vamooo capooo hermano del sur
The Ramones!!!!
Grandes los RAMONES..... Me. Encantan.... Únicos..... Desde España.....🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
First time listing to the ramones, saw a t shirt with the bands name and simply thought what an awesome name, bet the music will rock, definitely not disappointed
Diese Kraft. Diese Stimme.Was für ein geiles Lied.💪💪👍👍 Meisterwerk ❤
Definitely one of the Greatest 👍
PUT THIS VERSION IN SPOTIFY, PLSSSSSSSSS
I wonder why it isn't? I was surprised when I tried to search it the other day.
Get it via torrent my friend.
Pirate like a man.
@@bigbadfeeling lol
its on apple music btw. U can get 3 months premium for free :)
it is on spotify! its called Bonzo goes to bitburg :) (i just checked)
Drex new updates ! ⭐️💎⭐️
School of Rock !!!!!! 2024!!!!!! God bless!!!!
Gracias por todo amigos 🇦🇷
Ramones en el cielo nunca os olvidare !!!
I was searching for this song for about 2 hours, and I finally found it 🙏🏿😂💯
Melhor banda punk de todos os tempos e sempre será!!
Punk rock forever!!
The energy is amazing
Actually, no, school of rock did not bring me here. We had a really cool librarian in my high school, I was in grade 10 in 1980 and as I was leaving the library one day, he hands me a bootleg cassette, on side 1 was the Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, and on side 2 was the Ramones, Rocket to Russia. I worked in a record store while in high school and had never heard of these bands. That cassette changed the way I viewed and listened to music for the rest of my life. I came back to the library the next day and thanked him, and told him that I would never listen to music the same way ever again. I grew up in a small rural town (5,000 population), had little access to any good radio stations, but once I went to university, I could pull in all the fm stations from Toronto, and faithfully listened to 102.1 CFNY. To this day, the Ramones remain as one of my favourite bands, and I have shared their and other 80’s bands music.
Just the best band of the world
Agreed! Cant have a good party with out em👌
😀
My favorite ramones song
Vamos the Ramones locoooooo 🤘🇦🇷
I miss you boys xxxxx
Always loved the ramones just got back into it
Thank you! 🎉
I am so glad that Izzy Stradlin listened to the Ramones and to the Rolling Stones. His music is so influenced by the Ramones sound, you can clearly hear it in the best Guns n' Roses songs and also on his solo stuff
Anthology of my life ❤🩶
School of Rock!!! Love that movie
Rockstar ako ! 🎉⭐️💎⭐️❤️🇵🇭❤️🇵🇭⭐️💎⭐️
Long Live The Ramones 🎸💕
Living in the town where the "final solution" of WWII started this song makes me cry 😭
Simply
RAMONES.
One of the songs that inspire me to become a musician...
Thanks to school of rock too.❤️🤘🏼
2024 anyone?
Meeeeeeee😅😅😅
Here!!!!!
Ramones forever!
Right here right now. I just lost my job and my car got totaled and everything's falling apart.And if anything can get me through it it's these guys.🤘🤘
Notingh.Just Andràsi körüt...
Never heard of this band. I'm getting a globe/Ramones skateboard deck 🤟... This be my new band while I skate
Verse 1]
You've got to pick up the pieces
Come on, sort your trash
Better pull yourself back together
Maybe you've got too much cash
Better call, call the law
When are you gonna turn yourself in, yeah?
You're a politician
Don't become one of Hitler's children
[Pre-Chorus]
Bonzo goes to Bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town to understand your foreign policy
Pick up the pieces
My fave Ramones song!
This & Pet Semetary for me!
mejor que THE RAMONES NO HAY ! y si hay son copias que descansen en paz cada uno de ellos fueron lo mejor y dieron su alma al punk rock !!! THE RAMONES FOREVER
I’m old enough to say I saw them live! 😢
2:40 Am I the only one who gets goosebumps when this guitar solo kicks in? It's fucking epic!!!!
this is the song i need today
La vieja escuela nunca morirá
There are very few bands that changed music. Here is one.