Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated : Genie's After Bath Time

Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated : Genie's After Bath Time

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Wikipedia: This article is about the single by the Ramones. For the Entourage episode, see I Wanna Be Sedated (Entourage).
"I Wanna Be Sedated"
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated cover.jpg
Netherlands picture sleeve
Single by Ramones
from the album Road to Ruin
A-side "She's the One"
Released September 21, 1978
Recorded 1978
Genre Punk rock
Length 2:29
Label Sire Records
Songwriter(s) Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone
Producer(s) Tommy Ramone, Ed Stasium
Ramones singles chronology
"Needles and Pins"
(1978) "I Wanna Be Sedated"
(1978) "Rock 'n' Roll High School"
(1979)

Music video
"I Wanna Be Sedated" on YouTube
"I Wanna Be Sedated" is a song by American punk rock band Ramones, originally released on the band's fourth studio album, Road to Ruin (1978), in September 1978. The B-side of the UK single "She's the One" was released on September 21, 1978.[1] The song was later released as a single in the Netherlands in 1979,[2] then in the U.S. in 1980 by RSO Records from the Times Square soundtrack album.

The song has since then remained one of the band's best known songs.[3][4]

History
"I Wanna Be Sedated" was written by Joey Ramone.[5] 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.

Music video
The music video for the song, directed by Bill Fishman, was released in September 1988,[6] about ten years after the song was originally released, to promote the compilation album Ramones Mania. 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 film is intentionally sped up to show the excitement of the background, while the band's actions are in regular motion. This was achieved by having the band members move very slowly, while the crowd moved normally, and then speeding up the film. (Furthermore, one of the video's characters is a young Courtney Love.)[7]

A 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.