The Queers
A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Lookout!)
by Joshua Brown
As great as Love Songs For the Retarded was, it was the earlier output from The Queers that got you pumped up to be as useless a moron as you could be. A Day Late and a Dollar Short compiles these teen anthems of stupidity, including a live broadcast on New York’s WFMU. The “Love Me” and “Kicked Out of the Webelos” 7″s, from ’82 and ’84 respectively, gave us mindlessly raw classics such as “I Spent the Rent,” “I Want Cunt,” and “We’d Have A Riot Doing Heroin.” Those were the days when The Queers weren’t so intent on ripping off the Ramones, probably because they couldn’t play well enough (it takes a whole lot of unprofessionalism not to be able to ape the Ramones sound, right?). After those two EPs, The Queers split up and then got back together in the ’90s to record the Too Dumb To Quit 7″ (at least they’re honest). The rest is Queers history.