This song was released in 1976 on the Ramones debut album. I first heard this album in the early 80’s…and was struck by the economical way they produced their songs. Rapid fire songs one after the other…
I would NOT recommend what the Ramones are stating here. Bass player Dee Dee Ramone wrote this song, which is about sniffing glue, a cheap and easy way to… well to kill some brain cells. This is a pastime of bored teenagers with very bad judgment.
Running just 1:34, no one will accuse the Ramones of ripping off Bob Dylan. The song consists of these lyrics repeated, rinsed and washed.
Now I wanna sniff some glue
Now I wanna have somethin’ to do
All the kids wanna sniff some glue
All the kids want somethin’ to do
The Ramones didn’t really want folks to sniff glue. Tommy Ramone said: “I have a feeling Dee Dee was talking about his childhood, how he actually thought it was some kind of release when he was a kid. I thought of it as a parody. He might have been a little more serious.”
Johnny Ramone: “We couldn’t write about love or cars, so we sang about this stuff, like glue sniffing. We thought it was funny. We thought we could get away with anything.”
This is one of the tracks on the Ramones debut album. On their follow-up, they included a song called “Carbona Not Glue,” which is about graduating to cleaning solvent for a cheap high.
Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
Now I want to sniff some glue
Now I want to have somethin’ to do
All the kids want to sniff some glue
All the kids want somethin’ to do
1-2-3-4 Now I want to sniff some glue
Now I want to sniff some glue
Now I want to have somethin’ to do
All the kids want to sniff some glue
All the kids want somethin’ to do
One-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight
Now I want to sniff some glue
Now I want to have somethin’ to do
All the kids want to sniff some glue
All the kids want somethin’ to do
Now I want to sniff some glue
Now I want to have somethin’ to do
All the kids want to sniff some glue
All the kids want somethin’ to do
There was a kid in my wood shop class that liked to sniff the wood filler to get high and this kid didn’t have all that many brain cells to start with.
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Yea that is a dangerous high…I also remember teenagers talk about whippets… that gas that came out of a cool whip can right before the cool whip would give them a high.
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I did whippets once.
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Did it work?
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It made me laugh and I smoked some weed with it that got me high.
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Ugh, even being in a room with like model glue or contact cement in use gives me a headache.
Love ’em or hate ’em, the Ramones were originals and gave the music world a bit of a needed shakeup in the mid-’70s.
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Looking at the lyrics I didn’t expect much…and it delivered! lol
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Yep…it delivers! Hey man…have you ever heard of the Troggs Tapes?
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No never…what’s that?
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You will get a laugh…I made a post but just google it.
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Yes yes lol I know this one. Sprinkling fairy dust on the music has been my goal for many a year!
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The original Spinal Tap!
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Absolutely…some of it is hilarious.
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The good old days when glue was the strongest drug of choice!!!
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LOL… that is the truth!
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Shortest song in history. 😄
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