Box Office Bomb (album)

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Box Office Bomb
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Studio album by
Released1987
RecordedMay 18–28, 1987
Genre Hard rock, glam rock
Length44:49
Label Questionmark Records [1]
Producer Chris Carter, John Easdale, Mark Ettel [2]
Dramarama chronology
Cinéma Vérité
(1985)
Box Office Bomb
(1987)
Stuck in Wonderamaland
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Robert Christgau A− [4]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]

Box Office Bomb is the second album by the alternative rock band Dramarama. [5]

Contents

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "while Box Office Bomb suffers slightly from pressed-for-time-and-money production, 'Modesty Personified' still has plenty of Blondiesque bite, and the sextet invigorates Easdale’s vengeful frustration in 'Whenever I’m With Her' ('Sorry I bit her…') with hothouse guitar drama." [6]

Track listing

All songs written by John Easdale, except where noted.

  1. "Steve & Edie" - 5:05
  2. "New Dream" - 3:30
  3. "Whenever I'm With Her" - 3:09
  4. "Spare Change" - 3:15
  5. "400 Blows" - 3:52
  6. "Pumping (My Heart)" (Patti Smith, Ivan Kral, Jay Dee Daugherty) - 3:16
  7. "It's Still Warm" - 3:54
  8. "Out in the Rain" (Easdale, Julie Miller) - 4:13
  9. "Baby Rhino's Eye" - 5:01
  10. "Worse Than Being By Myself" - 5:27
  11. "Modesty Personified" - 4:07

1988 CD bonus tracks (The Best of Cinema Verite)

  1. "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)" - 3:44
  2. "Scenario" - 4:14
  3. "Questions?" - 3:12
  4. "Visiting The Zoo" - 3:55
  5. "Candidate" - 3:18
  6. "Some Crazy Dame" - 3:48
  7. "Emerald City" - 3:00

1995 CD reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Hitchhiking" - 3:10
  2. "Private World (David Johansen, Arthur Kane) - 3:37
  3. "Last Cigarette (Demo Version)" - 4:22
  4. "Would You Like (Demo)" - 4:36
  5. "Worse Than Being By Myself (Demo Version)" - 5:13
  6. "It's Still Warm (Original Version)" - 6:22

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