Are a Drag

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. 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, Annie Mudge from Annie, Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz, Sandy Dumbrowski from Grease, and Dr. Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Show. 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. 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. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_a_Drag) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)