Ramones i wanna be sedated lyric5/22/2023 ![]() Acting as a Beastie-Boys pre-cursor, there’s a degree of silliness which underpinned the Ramones and one which always helped to alleviate their boredom. The band eventually released the song in 1980 for the US market and it caught some attention, partly thanks to its unique video. ![]() Joey Ramone was the archetypal punk and he will be forever sorely missed. He was the epitome of it all tall, awkward, gangly, ugly hair, ripped jeans, a stinking old leather jacket, and as stubborn as a mule. Though the track was a rather autobiographical affair, the way Ramone sang the lines, with sardonic disenchantment, endeared him to a mass of disengaged youths. 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.” It was not the vision of tour life the band had in mind: “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. I Wanna Be Sedated Lyrics ChorusTwenty-twenty-twenty four hours to goI wanna be sedatedNothing to do nowhere to go-o-ohI wanna be sedatedVerse 1Just get me to the airport, put me on. Well, Danny Fields was our first manager and he would work us to death. ![]() The song, it turns out, was written by Joey Ramone and he recalled its composition: “It’s a road song. If ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ is the mainstream hit that even your grandmas would throw her fists up into the air for, then ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ was the reason the band were still the kings of the underground. ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ may well be the band’s greatest songs. Yep, sounds all too familiar Just the phrase I wanna be sedated basically sums it up for me: Im so bored I just. “I think that’s our greatest moment as a band.” While the moments on stage can’t be contested, off stage it was clear the band had not enjoyed their run around the capital and even composed the ultimate boredom anthem to go with it. “I think our peak, our greatest moment, is that New Year’s Eve show of 1977 into 1978,” said Johnny Ramone of the show. I Wanna Be Sedated Lyrics: Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go / I wanna be sedated / Nothing to do nowhere to go-o-oh / I wanna be sedated / Just get me.
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