I Wanna Be Sedated

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"I Wanna Be Sedated"
Single by Ramones
Released	1978
Recorded	1978
Genre	Punk
Length	2:29
Label	Sire
Producer(s)	Tommy Erdelyi, Ed Stasium
Ramones singles chronology
Rockaway Beach (1977)	I Wanna Be Sedated (1978)	I'm Against It (1978)

For the Entourage episode, see I Wanna Be Sedated (Entourage).

"I Wanna Be Sedated" is one of the best known^[1] singles by the punk rock group the Ramones. It was released in 1978 (see 1978 in music) and appeared on their fourth album, Road to Ruin

Contents 1 Backstory 2 Trivia 3 Covers 4 Movies and Video Games 5 TV 6 Sample 7 References

[edit] Backstory

"I Wanna Be Sedated" was written by Joey Ramone when he had to go to the hospital to be treated for burns after accidentally spilling hot water on himself. Joey was in the habit of inhaling steam from a kettle before performing, to clear his sinuses.

In an interview about the song, Joey explains the chorus, "It's a road song. I wrote it in 1977, through the 78. Well, Danny Fields was our first manager and he would work us to death. We would be on the road 360 days a year, and we went over to England, and we were there at Christmas time, and in Christmas time London shuts down. There's nothing to do, nowhere to go. Here we were in London for the first time in our lives, and me and Dee Dee Ramone were sharing a room in the hotel, and we were watching The Guns of Navarone. So there was nothing to do, I mean, here we are in London finally, and this is what we are doing, watching American movies in the hotel room".

[edit] Trivia

• Rolling Stone Magazine recognised it as "The greatest God-does-the-road-ever-suck song". It is also number 144 on the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

• The video features a young Courtney Love. ^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Covers

• The Offspring covered the song in the tribute album We're a Happy Family They are playing the song in 1999's comedy/horror movie Idle Hands until the band's singer is killed.
• The band Sugarcult covers this song at every performance.
• Shonen Knife did a cover of the song.

[edit] Movies and Video Games

• It is on the soundtrack of Detroit Rock City
• It also features in Playstation 2 videogame Guitar Hero.
• The song is also included in the Burnout 3 soundtrack.
• The song was also on the soundtrack of the 1980 movie Times Square.
• Spike sings part of the song in the episode 'Crush' in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's fifth season.
• The song is included in the film Carpool (1996) IMDb as the favourite mantra of the main characters.

[edit] TV

• On the HBO show Entourage, Vince seems to be about to sign on to a new project about the Ramones, properly entitled "I Wanna Be Sedated" however the producer sells the script to Warner in the season finale and they won't work with Vince.

[edit] Sample

[edit] References