"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 was their featured song on the Woodstock '94 double album.

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.

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.

All songs written by Live:

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