I Wanna Be Sedated - wikipedia I Wanna Be Sedated This article is about the single by the Ramones. For the Entourage episode, see I Wanna Be Sedated ( Entourage ). `` I Wanna Be Sedated '' Picture sleeve ( Netherlands ) Single by Ramones from the album Road to Ruin A-side `` She 's the One '' Released September 21, 1978 Format 7 - inch single Recorded 1978 Genre Punk rock Length 2 : 29 Label Sire 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 ) `` Needles and Pins '' ( 1978 ) `` She 's the One '' ( 1978 ) `` Rock ' n ' Roll High School '' ( 1979 ) `` I Wanna Be Sedated '' is a song by the American punk rock band the Ramones. It is one of the band 's best known songs. It was originally released on their fourth album, Road to Ruin, in September 1978 and was the B - side of the UK single `` She 's the One '' released on September 21, 1978. The song was later released as a single in the Netherlands in 1978, then in the U.S. in 1980 by RSO Records from the Times Square soundtrack album. Contents 1 History 2 Music video 3 Reception 4 Cover versions 5 In popular culture 6 References 7 External links History `` I Wanna Be Sedated '' was written by Joey Ramone. 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 ( 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 corn flakes. Meanwhile, the background room erupts into a meeting place 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. One of the video 's characters is a young Courtney Love. Reception `` I Wanna Be Sedated '' was number 145 on the Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Marky Ramone is the drummer on this track. 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. Cover versions The Adicts covered the song in the mid-80s when they were on Sire although it was n't released until the 1992 compilation Totally Adicted. It was later included as a bonus track on some versions of Sound of Music. Operation Ivy covered the song in their Ramones EP. Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil recorded a version of the song as bonus track for his first solo album Exposed in 1992. Shonen Knife has recorded a version of the song for the 1995 Japanese re-release of Burning Farm. Tiltwheel recorded the song for the tribute album Ramones Maniacs in 2001. Juliana Hatfield 's band Blake Babies recorded a cover for their 2002 EP Epilogue. Canadian singer / songwriter Bruce Cockburn performed the song live with his side project Bambi and the Deerhunters in 2002. The Offspring covered the song for the 2003 Ramones tribute album We 're a Happy Family. The band also performed the song in the film Idle Hands. Tyson Ritter of the All - American Rejects covered the song for the UK series Rock School. moe. covered the song on their live album Warts and All. The heavy metal band Viper covered the song on the album Maniacs in Japan. Brazilian rock singer Rita Lee covered this song in her 2004 album MTV Ao Vivo ( MTV Live ). The instrumental version by Belgian electroband Neven features in the movie I Could Never Be Your Woman by Amy Heckerling. The Go - Go 's covered this song in their DVD Live Go - Go 's in Central Park. Superhumanoids recorded the song as a single in 2012. New Found Glory covered the song on their 2013 Ramones tribute EP Mania. Kirsty MacColl covered the song in Titanic Days. The Sun King covered the song in his 3.12. 21 EP. Finnish singer Mirel Wagner covered the song for the trailer of the 2016 Gore Verbinski film A Cure for Wellness. In popular culture This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2014 ) The song appears on the soundtrack to the 1980 movie Times Square. The song is performed by a cover - band ( The Offspring ) at a High School Halloween Ball in the 1999 comedy - horror movie Idle Hands. On the show My So - Called Life, Rayanne makes a disastrous debut as the singer of a band while covering this song. Just before she is to come in, she panics and races off the stage, leaving Jordan to take over. The song briefly plays in the season 3 Gilmore Girls episode, `` Application Anxiety. '' The song is featured on the trailer and the soundtrack for the comedy Scary Movie. The song makes an appearance on the soundtrack featured in Burnout 3 : Takedown. The song is featured in the 2005 music video game Guitar Hero ( as a cover ), as well as in the second installment of the Jam Sessions series and Rock Band 3 ( as a master recording ), five years later. The character Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a big fan of the Ramones. This song is featured in the episode `` Crush ''. Spike manipulates Buffy into a date, hums a few bars of it and partly sings the chorus, afterwards he proceeds to ask Buffy if she likes the Ramones. The video has appeared on Beavis & Butt - head. It is extremely well received by the two and they say hardly anything the whole video out of enjoyment of the song so much. An episode from the third season of Entourage is named after the song ; in it, an old - school Hollywood producer pitches a script about the Ramones to E. In the song ' Overstayer ' by Every Time I Die, front man Keith Buckley sings `` ' I want to be sedated ' / Just like Joey said ''. 1970s portal The song is featured in the 2015 film Terminator Genisys, where Sarah Connor listens to it in one scene in 1984, and later listens to it on a headset while she, Kyle Reese and the T - 800 are arming themselves in an underground bunker. It was also mentioned in the novelization of Terminator 2 : Judgment Day as one of the songs that John Connor listens to. References Jump up ^ Gina Boldman. `` I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones Listen, Appearances, Song Review ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 2014 - 02 - 09. Jump up ^ `` History of the Ramones ''. Home.drenik.net. Archived from the original on 2012 - 02 - 20. Retrieved 2010 - 03 - 20. Jump up ^ `` Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated ( 7 '', Single ) ``. Discogs.com. Retrieved 2010 - 03 - 20. Jump up ^ `` Joey Ramone : I wan na be sedated. Unplugged ''. YouTube. 2011 - 09 - 16. Retrieved 2014 - 02 - 09. Jump up ^ `` Ramones - `` I Wanna Be Sedated '' ``. Mvdbase.com. Retrieved 2010 - 03 - 20. Jump up ^ `` Courtney Love - Other Works ''. IMDb.com. Retrieved 2007 - 03 - 14. Jump up ^ `` 500 Greatest Songs of All Time : Ramones, ' I Wanna Be Sedated ' ''. Retrieved 28 September 2016. Jump up ^ The Collection ( Media notes ). The Adicts. Taang ! Records. 2002. Jump up ^ `` Music Reviews ''. Impose Magazine. Retrieved 2012 - 05 - 02. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Ramones Joey Ramone Johnny Ramone Dee Dee Ramone Tommy Ramone Marky Ramone Richie Ramone C.J. 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Question: who sang the song i wanna be sedated
Answer: the Ramones; the Ramones