“I Wanna Be Sedated,” like much of the music by New York punk band the Ramones, wasn’t a hit at the time of its initial release, but the song and the band’s music have shown incredible staying power over the years.
In 2018, 40 years after the song was first released on the band’s fourth studio album, Road to Ruin, the single was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for equivalent sales and streams of 1 million units.
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On Spotify, the song is second to only the band’s 1976 classic “Blitzkrieg Bop” (more than 476 million streams) with more than 315 million streams.
In 2003, “I Wanna Be Sedated” came in at No. 145 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time with the magazine calling it “the greatest God-does-the-road-ever-suck song.”
And now the song has been re-recorded by one of the hundreds of punk bands that sprung up in the Ramones’ wake.
The Offspring announced on Aug. 28 in an email to fans that the band has released a new studio version of their take of the Ramones classic.
“We’ve been playing this live on tour, so we thought we’d record a proper studio version for you. Listen to our cover of the Ramones’ ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ now,” reads the announcement, which includes a mash-up of the Ramones and Offspring logos and links to several streaming options to hear their version of the song.
The Offspring version is faithful to the original, although at 2:25, it’s four seconds shorter than the Ramones original.
Though this may be the first time that the Offspring has released the song as a single, it’s not the first time they’ve recorded a version of the song. Their version of the Ramones classic appears in the 1999 horror/comedy film Idle Hands but was not included in the film’s officially released soundtrack. However, a version of the song by the Offspring was included in the 2003 album, We’re a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones, alongside versions of Ramones songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rob Zombie, Metallica, U2 and others.
In an interview with news.com.au, Offspring singer Dexter Holland cited the Ramones as the most important punk band of the ‘70s. “They were fantastic and people don’t realize that they started as early as they did and they were amazing in the ‘70s. A lot of people didn’t discover them until later, but I think that’s where a lot of it started for many punk fans,” he said.
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