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“I Wanna Live” by The Ramones
From the album Halfway to Sanity (1987)
“I Wanna Live” by The Ramones appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 1987. It was first released in 1987 on the album Halfway to Sanity. Its best result is #34 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1987. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #49 alternative song of 1987 and #359 of the '80s.
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"I Wanna Live" comes from Halfway to Sanity, the Ramones' tenth album, released by Sire in September 1987 and the last one with Richie Ramone behind the drums. Joey Ramone sings it, Johnny Ramone plays guitar and Dee Dee Ramone plays bass, with Daniel Rey producing alongside the band and Joe Blaney mixing.
The sessions started that April at Intergalactic Studios in New York, and they weren't a love-in: the band cut the instruments before the vocals so they could learn the songs faster, argued over plenty, and struck Rey as an impatient bunch. You wouldn't know it from the tunnel-vision drive of a song like this, the sound of a band that still believed a fast song could get them out of anything.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 34 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1987 | 105 |
| 1987 | 42 | WLIR / WDRE Long Island, NY | WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1987 | 99 |
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