I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - 2001 Remaster

Tommy Ramone (from Hey! Ho! Let's Go! The Ramones Anthology by David Fricke): "I wrote 'I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend' because we had all these other songs with 'I Don't Wanna' - 'I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You,' 'I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement.' The only other positive song we had was 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue.' One thing we all had in common was we were frustrated. We escaped from our anger with humor. A lot of that came from Dee Dee's sensibility, this Dada sensibility that got squeezed into 'I Don't Wanna.'"

There were some unusual instruments used on this song, including 12-string guitars, tubular bells and a glockenspiel. Studio musicians were brought in to play them.

A track from the first Ramones album, this was their second single, following "Blitzkrieg Bop." Like "I Remember You," it's a love song, just a very straightforward one.