Me First & Gimme Gimmes - Are a Drag
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Artist: Me First & Gimme GimmesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Fat Wreck Chords
Soundtracks:
- Over The Rainbow
- Don't Cry For Me Argentina
- Science Fiction Double Feature
- Summertime
- Favorite Things
- Rainbow Connection
- Phantom Of The Opera Song
- I Sing The Body Electric
- It's Raining On Prom Night
- Tomorrow
- What I Did For Love
- Stepping Out
Music reviews of Are a Drag
Music Review: The Concept Coalesces
Rating: 5 Stars
I own every Me First and the Gimme Gimmes record that's available on a format that I can currently deal with (SOMEbody forgot to tell me when they released their extremely limited vinyl boxed set, but it's just as well, as I don't currently have a working turntable). I suppose that marks me as a fan. So be it.
This is where the band started to get really good. Don't get me wrong--their first CD (Have a Ball) isn't without its charms, but for all it is, it's mostly a garden variety punk record that happens to be full of cover songs. I'm not sure how much punk rock you, the reader, have listened to, but most of it is pretty bad. It's a genre that is built on the assumption that its performers will have little technical proficiency (that's the whole reason why they drop riffs in favor of power chords, though if any of that makes any sense to you there's at least a twenty five percent chance that you consider anything in 4/4 time to be a lesser form of communication).
Before Are a Drag, the band had been attempting to shoehorn older songs into the punk rock form. With this album, the group realized that they need to meet the music halfway, and the results have been spectacular. There isn't a bad song on this record, which is saying a lot for a release in the punk family. The vocals are well executed, the composition is tight, and the subject manner manages to be irreverent and campy without becoming a novelty (less Weird Al Yankovic, more Zappa, if that makes any sense).
So, who's NOT going to like this CD? People who think they're getting garden variety showtunes are going to be disappointed. People who take showtunes too seriously are going to be angry. People who don't like punk rock will probably not enjoy the experience, though that's not an absolute (this is pretty far removed from the majority of punk). People who think that [insert band--usually Tool or Radiohead, but there are other contenders] are the beginning and end of music won't find anything here to change their minds.
So there's those thirty seven people. For the rest of the listening world, this is a great album. Don't get me wrong--it's not an INFLUENTIAL album. This isn't Sgt. Pepper's or IV. It's just well conceived, well executed fun, and should be received as such. A good and welcome addition to almost any collection (though parents may want to listen first, as they may or may not approve of the contents).
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