Old People Cover the Ramones’ I Wanna Be Sedated
They say retiring homes are boring. These oldies express it like the Ramones do: (YouTube clip; embedding was disabled)
When I grow that old, I wanna be that cool too.
And here’s the story behind I Wanna Be Sedated, from Wikipedia, as told by Joey Ramone:
“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 Christmastime, 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.”
Quite an apt song for folks in a nursing home. Somehow.
