Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Are A Drag (1999)
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Are A Drag (1999)
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Are a Drag is the second album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, 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 traditionally, but more popularly by Richard O'Brien 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 characters from the musicals represented in song: a member of A Chorus Line ("What I Did For Love"), Annie Mudge from Annie ("Tomorrow"), Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz ("Over the Rainbow"), Sandy Dumbrowski from Grease ("It's Raining on Prom Night"), and Dr. Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Show ("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.
Though it doesn't sound like a brilliant idea, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, an all-star cover band dedicated to regurgitating punk rock-style the most frothy music in their parents' record collections, are actually extraordinarily entertaining and can make the likes of John Denver and Barry Manilow sound not so bad. The lineup includes Fat Mike of NOFX, the guitarist from the Foo Fighters, a couple of the guys from Lagwagon, and Spike Slawson, the Gimmes' sweet-voiced singer, who also plays bass for the Swingin' Utters. On their second record, Are a Drag, the Gimmes tackle all of their parents' favorite showtunes, claiming homage rather than satire. Most of their choices are songs that anybody even remotely into musicals knows by heart. Their cover of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" has more choruses than the original, rocks pretty damn hard, and is certainly worthy of a swirling slam pit. Though it's not as wild as John Coltrane's version, the Gimmes' "My Favorite Things" is raging enough to send Julie Andrews swan diving off the stage into a sea of sweaty punkers. They mess with the jazz standard "Summertime" by Gershwin, adding some fine surfy leads to a song that's been played a million times over. Also, there's their furious rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera." On Are a Drag, the Gimmes succeed at playing showtunes that punk kids can dig, no small feat. Reviewed by Adam Bregman allmusic.com
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Me First And The Gimme Gimmes / Are A Drag
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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. 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)
The Band:
Spike Slawson (of Swingin' Utters and Re-Volts) – lead vocals
"Fat" Mike Burkett (of NOFX) – bass, backing vocals
Chris Shiflett (of Foo Fighters ex- No Use For A Name) – lead guitar, backing vocals
Joey Cape (of Lagwagon) – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Dave Raun (of Lagwagon) – drums
Album Released: May 18, 1999
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