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Are a Drag
Are a Drag cover
Cover album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Released 18 May 1999
Recorded  ?
Genre Punk rock
Length 25:58
Label Fat Wreck Chords
FAT-586
Producer(s) Ryan Greene & Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Professional reviews
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes chronology
Have a Ball
(1997)		 Are a Drag
(1999)		 Turn Japanese
(2001)

Are a Drag was the second album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, released in 1999 on the Fat Wreck Chords independent record label. Image File history File links MFGG_AreADrag_albumcover. ... In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is a punk rock cover band that formed in 1995. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California based independent record label, focused on punk rock, which was started by Fat Mike the lead singer and bassist of the punk rock band NOFX and his wife Erin, in 1990. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is a punk rock cover band that formed in 1995. ... Have a Ball is the first album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, released in 1997 on the Fat Wreck Chords independent record label. ... Japanese EP released by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes in 2001 on Pizza of Death Records. ... Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is a punk rock cover band that formed in 1995. ... Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California based independent record label, focused on punk rock, which was started by Fat Mike the lead singer and bassist of the punk rock band NOFX and his wife Erin, in 1990. ... An independent record label is variously described as a record label operating without the funding (or outside the organizations) of the major record labels, and/or a label that subscribes to indie philosophies such as DIY and anti-corporate art. ...


The album is made up entirely of show tunes. The album's title alludes to the fact that all of the songs on the album feature the male vocalists of the band singing songs performed by female characters in their original stage shows/movies (except for the Phantom's part in "Phantom of the Opera", and "The Rainbow Connection"). The album's cover features the members of the band dressed up, in drag, as five of those female characters: Columbia ("Science Fiction/Double Feature")[citation needed], Annie Mudge ("Tomorrow"), Dorothy Gale ("Over the Rainbow"), Sandy Dumbrowski ("It's Raining on Prom Night"), and Dr. Frank-N-Furter ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"). Showtunes are songs written for musical theater productions, such as: The Phantom of the Opera Jesus Christ Superstar Oklahoma! Guys and Dolls Cabaret See also Musical theater Categories: Stub ...


Like many other Gimme Gimmes albums, Are a Drag contains many elements of mash-up - more specifically, musical allusions to punk or power-pop songs in their covers, which are rarely "punk" or "power-pop" or "proto-punk." The intro to the song "My Favorite Things" quotes "Generator", by Bad Religion, and at the end of "Tomorrow", Fat Mike can be heard singing "Mommy's alright, daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird" - a lyric from "Surrender" by Cheap Trick. Mashup, or bootleg, is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination of the music from one song with the a cappella from another. ... Bad Religion is an influential punk rock band that was originally formed in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley (bass), Greg Graffin (vocals), Brett Gurewitz (guitars) and Jay Ziskrout (drums). ... Heaven Tonight is the third album by Cheap Trick. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...


Track listing

  1. "Over The Rainbow" (Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, from The Wizard of Oz)
  2. "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, from Evita)
  3. "Science Fiction Double Feature" (Richard O'Brien, from The Rocky Horror Show)
  4. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, from Porgy and Bess)
  5. "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers, from The Sound of Music)
  6. "Rainbow Connection" (Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher, from The Muppet Movie)
  7. "Phantom of the Opera" (Andrew Lloyd Webber, from The Phantom of the Opera)
  8. "I Sing the Body Electric" (Stephen Margoshes and Jacques Levy, from Fame)
  9. "It's Raining on Prom Night" (Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, from Grease)
  10. "Tomorrow" (Charles Strouse, from Annie)
  11. "What I Did for Love" (Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban, from A Chorus Line)
  12. "Stepping Out" (Fred Ebb and John Kander, from Cabaret)

 
 

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