pleasure to see the Ramones place so high after the intrepid Seymour Stein refused to release their most overt political act." In his review of Animal Boy, Rolling Stones David Fricke called the song "brilliant". He wrote that it "vividly captures the sense of helplessness and confusion felt by rock youth in the Age of Reagan". In his book Music: What Happened?, Scott Miller includes it among his list of best songs from 1986, while Salon'''s Wyman retrospectively describes it as "the group's greatest song and [Joey's] greatest vocal performance". Other versions A concert recording of "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" appears on the band's 1991 album Loco Live. The studio version was used in the soundtrack of the film School of Rock (2003), although the official version was the version used in the film itself. Several bands have recorded cover versions: The Agnews on the anthology album Gabba Gabba Hey: A Tribute to the Ramones (1991); The Huntingtons on their album File Under Ramones (1999); Blanks 77 on the Ramones Maniacs tribute album (2001); Wednesday Night Heroes on their Move to Press EP (2005); Trashlight Vision on their album Alibis and Ammunition (2006); MxPx on their album On the Cover II (2009); and Iron Chic on their Spooky Action EP (2013). In 2004, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Dicky Barrett and Lawrence Katz were joined by ex-Ramones Marky and C.J. for a live performance of the song available on the DVD Too Tough to Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone''. References 1986 songs Ramones songs Protest songs Songs written by Jean Beauvoir Songs written by Dee Dee Ramone Songs written by Joey Ramone Anti-fascist music Post-punk songs Songs about Ronald Reagan Songs about Germany Waffen-SS Beggars Banquet Records singles Sire Records singles