The Queers "Don't Back Down" LP Orig OOP Ramones Screeching Weasel Ben Rancid
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The Queers "Don't Back Down" LP Lookout! Records (US)

Vinyl is EX, Jacket is EX

Out of Print!

Very Rare!!

Track Listing:

A1 No Tit
A2 Punk Rock Girls
A3 I'm Ok, You're Fucked
A4 Number One
A5 Don't Back Down
A6 I Only Drink Bud
A7 I Always Knew
B1 Born To Do Dishes Written-By – Tierney*
B2 Janelle, Janelle
B3 Brush Your Teeth
B4 Sidewalk Surfin' Girl Written-By – Harley Hatcher, Mike Curb
B5 Another Girl Written-By – Hernandez*
B6 Love Love Love
B7 I Can't Get Over You Lead Vocals, Written-By – Lisa Marr

The Queers are a punk band formed in 1981 by Portsmouth, New Hampshire native Joe King (aka Joe Queer) along with Scott Gildersleeve (aka Tulu), and John Hayes (aka Wimpy Rutherford). The band originally broke up in 1984, but reformed with Joe Queer and a new line-up in 1986. In 1990, the band signed with Shakin' Street Records and released their first album Grow Up. The album earned the band notoriety within New England, but with the release of their next album 1993's Love Songs for the Retarded, on Lookout! Records, their following grew larger.

In 2006, after releasing six albums on Lookout!, the band rescinded their master rights from the label, citing breach of contract over unpaid royalties. Later that year they signed with Asian Man Records.

The Queers' cover of "Wipe Out" was featured in the 2007 Columbia Pictures and ImageWorks Studios mockumentary film Surf's Up, produced by Sony Pictures Animation and National Geographic Films.

The Queers play a Ramones-derived style of pop punk. Much like the Ramones, common lyrical themes are girls, drugs, alcohol and having fun. Musically the band deviates slightly from the driving rhythm guitar sound of the Ramones and augments their songs with harmony vocals, handclaps, keyboards and guitar solos. They have been described as "The Ramones meets The Beach Boys". Ben Weasel of Screeching Weasel frequently collaborates with Joe Queer to write their songs. The band is well known for the variety of cover versions they include on their records and during live performances. Bands/artists covered by The Queers include The Beach Boys, The Ramones (including a complete re-recording of the Rocket to Russia album), The Nobodys, Angry Samoans, The Mr T Experience, Skeeter Davis, The Fantastic Baggys, The Who, The Undertones, The Hobos, Tommy James and The Shondells, Helen Love, The Catalogs (from Hawaii, featuring Les Hernandez of The Quintessentials), Unnatural Axe, and many more.

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