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REAR VIEW MIRROR:
Every week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. This week, The Ramones and "I Wanna Be Sedated."
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The Ramones are widely regarded as the first punk rock group. Though never commercially successful, few bands have been more influential.
When their first album was released in 1976, critics lost their marbles. All the top critics in the United States hailed them as the greatest band in the universe. But for the most part, they were ignored by radio and the public at large.
They found their greatest success in the UK. On their first visit to London, members ofThe Clash and The Sex Pistols attended their show. It's widely acknowledged that this fateful night set the UK punk scene in motion.
It was on one of these early trips to London that one of the band's best known songs, "I Wanna Be Sedated" was written. The band was worn out, banged up and bored when they found themselves in London at Christmas time in 1977. Singer Joey Ramone was excited to be in the big city, but disappointed that everything was shut down for the holidays. With nothing to do and nowhere to go, he and his bandmateDee Dee found themselves in their hotel room watching the war movie The Guns of the Navarone, starring Gregory Peck on television.
Out of that boredom, he began writing the song that would go on to become a rock and roll classic. The song has since been covered by everyone from The Go-Go's toBruce Springsteen.
Here's a punk rock classic from one of the bands that pioneered the genre. This is "I Wanna Be Sedated" by The Ramones.
Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:
George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"
Bobbie Gentry - "Ode to Billie Joe"
The Beach Boys - "Never Learn Not to Love"
The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"
Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"
Simon and Garfunkel - "The Boxer"
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - "Tracks of my Tears"
Elvis Presley - "Heartbreak Hotel"
Bruce Cockburn - "Lovers In A Dangerous Time"
Bob Dylan & Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower"
Phil Spector and the Ronnettes - "Be My Baby"
Os Mutantes - "Ando Meio Desligado"
The Diamonds - "Little Darlin"
Captain Beefheart - "Yellow Brick Road"
Elton John - "Bennie and the Jets"
Hank Williams - "Long Gone Lonesome Blues"
R.E.M. - "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"
Tom Waits - "Jockey Full of Bourbon"
Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline"
Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth"
Five Man Electrical Band - "Signs"
Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas"
Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up In Blue"
The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood"
The Pursuit of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run"
Big Joe Turner - "Shake Rattle and Roll"
Martha and the Muffins - "Echo Beach"
Wilson Pickett - "In The Midnight Hour"
The Band - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"
The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"
Ian and Sylvia - "Four Strong Winds"
James Brown - "Please Please Please"
John Cougar Mellencamp - "Pink Houses'"
The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
The Guess Who - "American Woman"
U2 - "I Still Have't Found What I'm Looking For"
Janis Joplin - "Me and Bobby McGee"
Gordon Lightfoot - "If You Could Read My Mind"
The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"
Simon and Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence"
Bill Haley and his Comets - "Rock Around The Clock"
The Velvet Underground - "I'm Waiting For The Man"
Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"
Bobby Fuller - "I Fought The Law"
Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Booker T and the MGs - "Green Onions"
Neil Young - "Rockin' in the Free World"
The Left Banke - "Walk Away Renee"
Lou Reed - "Walk On The Wild Side"
James Taylor - "Fire And Rain"
The Clash - "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
Marvin Gaye - "Sexual Healing"
Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
The Animals - "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"
Dusty Springfield - "Son of a Preacher Man"
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "I Put A Spell On You"
Mott The Hoople - "All the Young Dudes"
New York Dolls - "Personality Crisis"
George Jones - "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the USA"
The Beatles - "With A Little Help From My Friends"
James Brown - "Hot (I Need to be loved loved loved)"
Inner Circle - "Tenement Yard"
Ray Charles - "I Don't Need No Doctor"
Curtis Mayfield - "Freddy's Dead"
Gang Starr - "Beyond Comprehension"
Aretha Franklin - "Rocksteady"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Have You Ever Seen the Rain'
Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightning"
Bobby Womack - "Across 110th Street"
Foggy Hogtown Boys - "Man of Constant Sorrow"
Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"
Neil Young - "Cortez The Killer"
Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Elvis Costello - "Watching the Detectives"
Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"
The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony"
Roberta Flack - "Killing Me Softly with his Song"
Rolling Stones - "Beast of Burden"
Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"