Are a Drag Rocky Horror Picture Show", and "Rainbow Connection"). The album's cover features the members of the band dressed up, in drag, as five characters from the musicals represented in song: a member of "A Chorus Line" ("What I Did For Love"), Annie Mudge from "Annie" ("Tomorrow"), Dorothy Gale from "The Wizard of Oz" ("Over the Rainbow"), Sandy Dumbrowski from "Grease" ("It's Raining on Prom Night"), and Dr. Frank-N-Furter from "The Rocky Horror Show" ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"). Like many other Gimme Gimmes albums, "Are a Drag" contains many elements of mash-up - more specifically, musical allusions to punk or power-pop songs in
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Horror: From Concept to Cult", designer Sue Blane discusses the "Rocky Horror" costumes' influence on punk music style, opining "[It was a] big part of the build-up [to punk]." She states that ripped fishnet stockings, glitter, and coloured hair were directly attributable to "Rocky Horror". Some of the costumes from the film had been originally used in the stage production. Props and set pieces were reused from old Hammer Horror productions and others. The tank and dummy used for Rocky's birth originally appeared in "The Revenge of Frankenstein" (1958). These references to earlier productions, in addition to cutting costs, enhanced