Pansy Division

Pile Up (Lookout!)
by Joshua Brown

Like it or not, macho-core fanatics, Pansy Division are here, they’re queer, and they’re punker than you’ll ever be. Pansy Division earn punk points in the present with hooky three-chord progressions and outrageous deadpan lyrics. Their pro-queer message is stated in such an eloquent way that straight listeners will find themselves relating to it despite themselves, and in such a happy-go-lucky manner that even the most homophobic among us might start pogoing, shouting the lyrics to “Bill & Ted’s Homosexual Adventure.” Pansy Division’s lyrical brilliance is exemplified in “Flower”: “I just want your fresh young jimmy, sliding slamming ramming in me.”

Apart from all this, they do versions of Beat Happening’s “Cry For a Shadow,” country-western standard “Jackson,” “Femme Fatale” by the Velvet Underground, Spinal Tap’s “Big Bottom,” and their parody of you-know-who’s “Smells Like Queer Spirit.”