Songs About Food: "I Just Want to Have Something to Do" by The Ramones

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The whole song isn't about food, but you gotta appreciate Joey Ramone's teenage angst of settling for chicken vindaloo when he really just wants his chick. The opening scene where  they're riding topless in a Gabba Gabba Hey plated pink cadillac tossing chicken bones is pretty tasty, too.

Any other Sonoma County people remember seeing The Ramones play the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma in 1981?

Update: The original video embedded in this post was a scene from the cult classic film Rock 'n' Roll High School and has since been removed from YouTube, so I swapped it for this non-video version of the song. 

The movie is packed full of The Ramones and would go great with some chicken vindaloo takeout and cold beers. Here's the link if you want to get a copy of Rock 'n' Roll High School on DVD at Amazon.

Comments

[Jody Sommerhauser]

I was at that show, was I with you? Did they play with the Avengers, or am I making it up?

[Jaya Schillinger]

Yeah Jody, we were there! Funny, but I can't remember who opened, but don't think it was the Avengers. I just remembered that I have old ticket stubs in a photo album. Get this: August 19, 1981 (no other bands listed on the stub) but the price? $9.00! Nine dollars for the Ramones! Now it would probably be ninety.