{"id":18492,"date":"2026-04-09T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=18492"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:07:25","slug":"morning-songramones-i-wanna-be-sedated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2026\/04\/09\/morning-songramones-i-wanna-be-sedated\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning song#Ramones #I Wanna Be Sedated\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Though it\u2019s largely the domain of pop music today, it\u2019s not unheard of for\u00a0rock stars<\/a>\u00a0to sell out for a\u00a0Christmas single<\/a>, and to be fair, they\u2019re usually pretty good. Chuck Berry\u2019s \u201cRun Rudolph Run\u201d is a mainstay, Tom Petty\u2019s \u201cChristmas All Over Again\u201d is an underrated gem, and even Clapton gave us his version of \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d (many years post-sobriety, so, you know, not\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0kind). Punk legends the\u00a0Ramones<\/a>\u00a0were no stranger to the holiday racket, having\u00a0released the relatively obscure \u201cMerry Christmas (I Don\u2019t Want to Fight Tonight)\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in 1987, but that\u2019s not the only one. In fact, one of their best-known songs is secretly a Christmas song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not like it\u2019s all that clear what \u201cI Wanna Be Sedated\u201d was about in the first place. The only clues we get from the lyrics are that the narrator is bored, demanding transport via wheelchair to either the airport or the venue of that night\u2019s gig, and has lost control of his extremities and cognitive faculties. Well, it turns out the reason there\u2019s nothing to do and nowhere to go is that, in the song, it\u2019s Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Joey Ramone explained before one performance<\/a>, in 1977, the band was \u201con the road 360 days a year, and we went over to England, and we were there at Christmastime, and at Christmastime, 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<\/em>. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn\u2019t explain much \u2014 it sounds like sedation is the opposite of what they wanted, there\u2019s plenty to see in London just walking around outside, and surely they show British movies in British hotel rooms, too \u2014 but we\u2019re not here to tell the Ramones how to live their lives. At least\u00a0The Guns of Navarone<\/em>\u00a0kicks ass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted from: https:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_49372_i-wanna-be-sedated-is-secretly-a-christmas-song.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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