Released February 1994 | Length 3:27 | |
Format 7", 10", 12", CD, Cassette Genre Alternative rock, post-grunge |
"Selling the Drama" is the first single from Live's 1994 album, Throwing Copper. It reached #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, becoming their first of three singles to reach the top of this chart. The song reached #43 on the Billboard Hot 100. Live's performance of "Selling The Drama" at Woodstock '94 was their featured song on the Woodstock '94 double album.
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Music video
The video is set in a wooded area and filmed in both black & white and color, showing the band playing the song and lead singer Ed Kowalczyk tearing pages out of a book. The video is notable for one of the last appearances of Kowalczyk's long hair, which he shaved off around the time that "I Alone" was released as a single.
Charts
As well as reaching #43 in the US, it charted at #30 in the UK, #41 in Canada, #15 in the Netherlands and #49 in Australia.
Track listings
All songs written by Live:
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:26
- "Lightning Crashes" - 5:25
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:26
- "The Dam at Otter Creek" - 4:40
- "Shit Towne" - 3:48
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:27
- "Selling the Drama" (Acoustic) - 3:40
- "White, Discussion" - 4:39
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:26
- "I Alone (Bootleg)" - 4:23
- "Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)" (Bootleg) - 4:53
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:26
- "The Dam at Otter Creek" (Bootleg) - 5:35
- "Selling the Drama" (Bootleg) - 3:35
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:26
- "Selling the Drama" (Acoustic) - 3:40
- "White, Discussion" - 4:40
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:25
- "The Dam at Otter Creek" (Bootleg) - 3:35
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:26
- "The Dam at Otter Creek" (Bootleg) - 5:35
- "Selling the Drama" (Bootleg) - 3:35
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:27
- "Selling the Drama" (Acoustic) - 3:38
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:27
- "Selling the Drama" (Acoustic) - 3:40
- "White, Discussion" (Special Radio Edit) - 4:40
- "Selling the Drama" - 3:27
- "Selling the Drama" (Acoustic) - 3:38