Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - 1999 - Are a Drag [FLAC]

Are a Drag is the second album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. It was released in 1999 on the Fat Wreck Chords independent record label. The album is made up mainly of show tunes. The album's title alludes to the fact that most of the songs on the album feature vocalist Spike Slawson singing songs that were originally performed by female characters in their original stage shows/movies (with the exception of the Phantom's part in "Phantom of the Opera", "Science Fiction," which was sung by a female originally, but more popularly by Richard O'Brien's female-sounding falsetto in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and "Rainbow Connection"). The album's cover features the members of the band dressed up, in drag, as five of those female characters: Usherette Trixie ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"), 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"). 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. Track Listing 01 - Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz) 02 - Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Evita) 03 - Science Fiction Double Feature (The Rocky Horror Show) 04 - Summertime (Porgy and Bess) 05 - My Favorite Things (The Sound of Music) 06 - Rainbow Connection (The Muppet Movie) 07 - Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom of the Opera) 08 - I Sing the Body Electric (Fame) 09 - It's Raining on Prom Night (Grease) 10 - Tomorrow (Annie) 11 - What I Did for Love (A Chorus Line) 12 - Stepping Out (Cabaret) All tracks are DRM-free and encoded losslessly in FLAC format (16 bit, stereo, 44.1 kHz). For more information about FLAC visit http://flac.sourceforge.net/. Album summary courtesy of Wikipedia and is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

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 stormium (2011-12-28)

legit.
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