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The Best of Dramarama: 18 Big Ones
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227351625
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
MPN: 73516
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: October 29, 1996
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Editorial Review:
"Rock and roll's a loser's game," goes a Mott the Hoople line borrowed for an epigram for this best-of. It invokes the story of this New Jersey band on two levels. First, these guys were smart enough to draw on slightly left-field influences while remaining sufficiently modern to gripe about the FM stranglehold of "Classic Rot." Second, like Mott's Ian Hunter, they bet big and lost big. This collection of semi-hits and obscurities might well have been titled "Work for Food." Singer John Easdale wrote that song for Hi-Fi Sci-Fi, the outfit's 1993 swan song. Imagining himself a few years past his minor stardom, Easdale sang of pushing a shopping cart full of Dramarama memorabilia, aluminum cans, and his baby blanket. The song roared with power chords, bitterness, and resignation, flipping the rock cliché "keep on rollin'" onto its side. Girls who don't count sleeping with the radio on as being alone, non sequitur rhetorical questions, promises of everything, all tied up with bashes and riffs and madly catchy hooks--these are the stuff of Dramarama songs. Typically, 18 Big Ones comes a day late and a dollar short--maybe the same buck Easdale passes to a street-corner denizen in "Last Cigarette." But it also stands as testament to the fact that, whatever else, Dramarama lived up to its end of the bargain. --Rickey Wright
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Should Have Been Superstars!!!
This band was huge in LA but not many other places- but every song on here is a classic! It's time for a Dramarama revival- they were the best band of 80's. If you remember those days, pick up this CD!
Rating: - Weird and Wonderful Experience...
I don't own this greatest hits album, yet I feel that I can assign it the 5 starts it surely deserves... As others have mentioned here, I first heard Dramarama on the Rodney on the ROQ radio show on KROQ, in LA, in the late eighties. (That was the best show, and I miss Rodney!) Anyway, I grew from childhood into adulthood with this band. I saw them play live 7 times - amazing. I met them once at the Edge in Palo Alto when I was college, and they game me and my friends free tickets to see them ... Read More
Rating: - 5 Stars is Underrated, They Deserve 7
I bought this album soleley for "Anything, Anything." I heard it on the radio and thought, 'wow, a new band. They must be awesome.' And to my surprise, it was at least a decade old. I'd never heard any of these songs before and at first I wasn't really feeling it because they weren't as upbeat as "Anything, Anything." But as I kept listening, I began getting all kinds of fantastic riffs and hooks stuck in my head for days. And then you start listening to all the lyrics, and you think, 'wow, they're ... Read More
Rating: - I have to confess that...
I am ready to give my wife away to anyone who can bring this band in my city for a gig.
My favorite band of all time.
Rating: - Who Would've Thought......
Who would've ever thought that these guys would have a best of compilation. Well deserved for this band that put out great albums in the late '80's and early '90's. I think they should've included "70's TV" and their great version of Mott's "I Wish I Was Your Mother", but let's not nitpick. "Anything, Anything" is one of the greatest rock songs of all time and I never tire of hearing it. I hope some of Dramarama's music sticks around and doesn't eventually fade into the abyss of obscurity. I'm still ... Read More
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