Beat on the Brat
"Beat on the Brat" | |
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Song by Ramones | |
from the album Ramones | |
Released | February 1976 |
Recorded | January 1976 |
Genre | Punk rock |
Length | 2:30 |
Label | Sire/ABC |
Songwriter(s) | Joey Ramone |
Producer(s) | Craig Leon |
"Beat on the Brat" is a song by American punk rock band Ramones, from their eponymous debut album. The song was featured in the 1995 film Billy Madison.
Story[]
"Beat on the Brat" was said by Joey to have origins relating to the lower classes of New York City.
When I lived in Birchwood Towers in Forest Hills with my mom and brother. It was a lower-class neighborhood, with a lot of trashy lower class women who had horrible brat kids who were obnoxious. There was a playground with women sitting around and a kid screaming, a horrible kid just running around rampant with no discipline whatsoever. The kind of kid you just want to kill. You know, 'beat on the brat with a baseball bat' just came out. I just wanted to kill him.
Dee Dee, however, explained that the song was about how "Joey saw some mother going after a kid with a bat in his lobby and wrote a song about it."[2]
In 2018, a cover of the song was performed by parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic backed by punk supergroup Osaka Popstar as part of a Dr. Demento tribute album.[3] Combining an onslaught of guitar sounds from Osaka Popstar with stabs of Yankovic's accordion, Rolling Stone called it "a blistering, accordion-tinged cover."[4]
References[]
- ^ Rombes 2005 p. 73
- ^ McNeil and McCain 2009 p. 183
- ^ Lewis, Randy (Jan 11, 2018). "Dr. Demento, comedic song hero and unsung punk rock legend, gets his due on new album". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. Retrieved Jan 17, 2018.
- ^ Blistein, Jon (November 21, 2017). "Hear 'Weird Al' Play Accordion on Raging Ramones Cover". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
External links[]
- Ramones songs
- Song recordings produced by Craig Leon
- 1976 songs
- Songs written by Joey Ramone
- Songs about child abuse
- "Weird Al" Yankovic songs