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Published on September 17th 2002 What the hell happened here? Does anyone else remember back from 8th to 10th grade when the Queers were still a good band? Then they left Lookout for Hopeless, a move not particularly shady in and of itself, considering Lookout at the time was pretty much treating all their staple bands like crap, while Hopeless was shaping up to be quite the cool label. In fact, the only time I ever had a problem with the Queers switching labels wasn't even due to the fact that they had found a new home, but rather due to the fact that THEIR ALBUMS ON HOPELESS SUCKED. Maybe it was because Joe ditched Hugh and B-Face in an effort to become what I like to call the John Couger Concentration Queers. Maybe it was the stress of not drinking anymore. Maybe he was just hard up for cash and figured he could slime his way by with songs that sounded like some pre-teen knockoffs from the suburbs of California trying their hardest to write songs that sounded like the Queers. Whatever the reasoning behind Joe's seemingly open and conscious decision to stop writing good songs, I was pretty sure we wouldn't be hearing from the group ever again. Much to my surprise, another album managed to sneak into the Hopeless catalog. "Beyond the Velley of the Assfuckers", it was called. Holy lord. Someone ought to inform Mr. King Queer over there that simply playing faster and swearing more does not make your horrible songwriting sound any better, even if you are a punk band. "Beyond the Valley" sounded, to me, like some sort of midlife crisis Joe wanted to share with the world. This time, I was just HOPING they wouldn't put anything else out. So here it is. I open my mailbox, and there it is, staring me in the face. The new Queers album, back on Lookout Records and terrible as ever. Let me recite some lyrics from this gem of an album just to show you an example of the type of stuff you can expect from Joe and Co this time around:
Danny Vapid, he ain't no faggot
Do I really need to say anything more to convince you not to buy this CD? This is awful. This is just... augh. If you are one of those people who has never heard the Queers, but wants to, go buy "Love Songs for the Retarded" or "Beat Off" or something. Don't buy this. In fact, if you see this in the store, don't even pick it up to look at it. I don't care if you have no intention of buying it, do not touch it. This album is the devil. It will burn your skin. We must round them all up and burn them. Then, as suggested by another before me, we need to invent a machine to burn things that have already been burned, and we'll burn the CDs and the machine together.
Have I made myself clear, or should we go over that one more time just to be safe?
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what the fuck are u thinking their great and your homo fuckhead. This is an amazing album! Joey's dead, Dee Dee is dead, Kurt is dead, Hugh is dead. Joe kicked Hugh out of the band long before he died of a tumor. Shit, that happened after Punk Rock Confidentail had been out for a while. Fool. yes, this is mitch from nothingnice.com someone really needs to screen these reviews ... i mean, fuck, try making at least one goddamn claim about the album instead of just saying it sucks ... and in case you didn't notice, joe uses "faggot" to make fun of homophobes, not to support them. dude, brain tumors are fucking punk as hell joe didn't ditch Hugh. He died from a brain tumor after Don't Back Down. Asshole. is this mitch from nothingnice.com??????????? Settle down young man....So much anger. lol yup this album is sooo indie rock..... I bet you like indie rock Mitch you fuckin retard... It's always nice to read a review that does everything but review the album. My god... I wish this review had been written before the other Pleasant Screams Review that gave it a pretty good rating... if it had been I wouldnt have purchased the cd and been submitted to the likes of "See you later fuckface" and "Danny Vapid". This cd is simply horrible and I wish the worst to the new Queers.-BostonMusicGuy download See You Later Fuckface. That is all. I've had this album for quite a long time now. Being a very very old queers fan I wasn't quick to love this album. I put it in my stack and listened to some other stuff for a month or two. Then I decided to bust it out again and I have to say right now, that this is one of the best albums Joe has made in a long long time. Not that bad dude, I don't like pop punk but for a pop punk record this was really good. Better than anything New Found Glory or any of those other lame pop bands have ever done. your a fucking retard, did you even listen to this cd, it was great. Your one of the fuckers that thinks when anything new comes out it sucks. I like the song See You Later Fuckface. I'm pretty sure that's off the new album, right? Yeah, Hopeless mailorder does rock. They gave me a bunch of free crap as well. I love free crap. on a semi-related note, Hopeless is fucking cool. i just got some stuff in the mail that i ordered from them and i got a million free posters and stickers and what not. classy guys i say. if ska is gay, this isnt ska so shut your hole PIE. |
