

"I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones | Listen, Appearances, Song Review". ^ "Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (7", Single)".Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. The song was featured in the penultimate episode of The Magicians which aired on March 25, sung by most of the cast during a heist operation in a musical episode.Ramones Time: At 12:00 am on December 31, 2020, many people posted that it was, "2020, 24 hours to go.".It was later included as a bonus track on some versions of Sound of Music. English punk rock band The Adicts covered the song in the mid-'80s when they were on Sire although it wasn't released until the 1992 compilation Totally Adicted.Kelefa Sanneh said of the song, "I loved it because it seemed like the beginning of a tradition, pointing away from all the conventional thing a rock 'n' roll band might do, and pointing toward anything and everything else." Īccording to Alice Cooper, Joey Ramone acknowledged the similarity to Cooper's earlier 1972 song " Elected," explaining that the Ramones listened to a lot of Alice Cooper. In 1999, National Public Radio included the song in the "NPR 100", in which NPR's music editors sought to compile the one hundred most important American musical works of the 20th century. Marky Ramone is the drummer on this track. "I Wanna Be Sedated" was number 145 on the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. (Furthermore, one of the video's characters is a young Courtney Love.) Ī still from the video was featured in the liner notes of the band’s 1989 album Brain Drain, though the song itself does not appear on that album.

This was achieved by having the band members move very slowly, while the crowd moved normally, and then speeding up the film. The film is intentionally sped up to show the excitement of the background, while the band's actions are in regular motion. The iconic video features the Ramones sitting at a table (left to right: Johnny, Joey, Marky and Dee Dee), nonchalantly reading and eating generic corn flakes (branded "Corn Flakes") while the background hallway erupts into a venue for nuns, acrobats, ballerinas, monsters, cheerleaders, clowns, doctors, fetish nurses, and smoking schoolgirls. The music video for the song, directed by Bill Fishman, was released in September 1988, about ten years after the song was originally released, to promote the compilation album Ramones Mania. 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. 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. 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. Well, Danny Fields was our first manager and he would work us to death. In an interview about the song, Joey explains the chorus:

"I Wanna Be Sedated" was written by Joey Ramone.
