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Dramarama
Band Wayne United States Active 1982–1994
Dramarama formed in 1982 in Wayne, United States and was active until 1994. Dramarama has 128 chart appearances on 69 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 1986–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)”, which appears on 55 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Dramarama most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 49 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1992.
Dramarama came out of Wayne, New Jersey, in 1982, a power-pop band with an alternative streak, fronted from first to last by singer and songwriter John Easdale, with Peter Wood on guitar and a lineup that at one time or another took in Brian MacLeod and Clem Burke. Cinéma Vérité, in 1985, carried "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)", a jangling, desperate, heart-on-sleeve plea, along with "Scenario".
The band later moved to Los Angeles and kept turning out sharp, snotty guitar pop with a sweet tooth: Box Office Bomb in 1987 with "It's Still Warm", Stuck in Wonderamaland in 1989 with "Last Cigarette" and "No Regrets", Vinyl in 1991 with "What Are We Gonna Do?" and "Haven't Got a Clue", and Hi-Fi Sci-Fi in 1993 with "Work for Food". Easdale's voice, wry and a little wounded, held it all together. They broke up in 1994.
From 1996 Easdale kept the songs alive with a shifting lineup, at first billed under his own name but usually with old bandmates beside him, playing now and then in Los Angeles and New Jersey. In September 2003 they played KROQ's Inland Invasion festival in front of more than 78,000 people, an appearance on VH1's Bands Reunited made the reunion formal, and they toured the country again and released Everybody Dies on October 25, 2005, and later Color TV. On the countdowns, "Anything, Anything" is still the one listeners will give anything for.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Dramarama on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)#480 of all time | 55 | #2 | – | 1986 | |
| 2 | What Are We Gonna Do? | 16 | #24 | – | 1992 | |
| 3 | Haven't Got A Clue | 20 | #36 | – | 1991 | |
| 4 | Last Cigarette | 22 | #11 | – | 1989 | |
| 5 | Work for Food | 3 | #54 | – | 1993 | |
| 6 | Scenario | 4 | #294 | – | – | |
| 7 | It's Still warm | 2 | #32 | – | 1987 | |
| 8 | It's Stil Warm | 1 | #1786 | – | – | |
| 9 | No Regrets | 2 | #1986 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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