#RAMONES ROCK AND ROLL HIGHSCHOOL MOVIE#

'You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors,' she sings. But it starts with a richly detailed verse about that all-important first day of your freshman year at high school. This wistful ballad finds the singer looking back while still in her teens yet coming away with surprisingly grown-up reflections on the battle scars of young romance. In which the poet laureate of pre-Bob Dylan rock and roll takes young listeners through what he feels is a typical school day, learning American history and practical math while dealing with the botheration of having a guy who won't leave you alone sit behind you in class and a teacher who 'don't know how mean she looks.' Two months after being released as a single, it served as the opening track on a classic debut titled 'After School Session.' The single peaked at No.

#RAMONES ROCK AND ROLL HIGHSCHOOL MOVIE#

Meanwhile, Joey Ramone sets the tone with an opening verse that effectively sums up the high-school experience for young punks everywhere: 'Well I don't care about history / 'Cause that's not where I wanna be / I just wanna have some kicks / I just wanna get some chicks.' This song was made to order for a very silly must-see movie of the same name. punk approach this song with the youthful abandon of actual schoolkids, filtering a classic old-school rock-and-roll vibe through buzzsaw guitars. With Phil Spector producing, the kings of U.S. Alice Cooper, 'School's Out'Ĭooper's greatest hit sets the tone with a punkish guitar riff as memorable as anything the kids had heard since 'I'm Eighteen,' following 'School's out for summer' with 'School's out forever' because, as the singer reveals in a textbook example of knowing your audience, 'School's been blown to pieces.' Having school kids join the taunting bridge of 'No more pencils / No more books' was a brilliant idea, if not as brilliant as 'We got no class and we got no principles / And we got no innocence / We can't even think of a word that rhymes.' Ramones, 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' Whatever your relationship with school is, chances are you'll hear some of your own experiences in at least a handful of these songs, from the Beach Boys' celebration of school spirit to Taylor Swift recalling how her first day as a high school freshman felt. You could say Berry's song was a 'textbook example' of this type of song, in fact - if you're the type of person who would say that sort of thing. Now that the kids are eyeing the end of the school year, here's a playlist of 30 classics devoted to 'school days,' as Chuck Berry put it on a timeless 1957 single. View Gallery: 10 great concert movies you can buy or rent right now

Ramones rock and roll highschool