Quite Contrary

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Quite Contrary | type = studio | artist = Pansy Division | cover = PDQuiteContrary.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|2016|9|9}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Queercore, pop-punk, power pop | length = | label = Alternative Tentacles | producer = Pansy Division | prev_title = That's So Gay | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = | next_year = }} '''''Quite Contrary''''' is the seventh studio album, ninth album overall, by American queercore band Pansy Division, it was released on September 9, 2016 by Alternative Tentacles.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/15/pansy-division-queercore-gay-rock-band |title= Interview: Pansy Division: a quarter-century of queercore |last= Locker |first= Melissa |date= 2016-09-15 |work= The Guardian |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230423124731/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/15/pansy-division-queercore-gay-rock-band |language=en |access-date=2023-04-23|archive-date= 2023-04-23 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/pansy-divisions-jon-ginoli-on-gay-punk-bands-25th-anniversary-new-lp-115903/ |title=Pansy Division's Jon Ginoli on Gay Punk Band's 25th Anniversary, New LP |first=Jerry |last=Portwood |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=2016-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321105111/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/pansy-divisions-jon-ginoli-on-gay-punk-bands-25th-anniversary-new-lp-115903/ |access-date=2023-03-21 |archive-date=2023-03-21 |language=en}}</ref>

The cover features cover models Marcus Ewert and Moon Trent, who were the cover models for Pansy Division's 1996 album Wish I'd Taken Pictures. The band has playfully called ''Quite Contrary'' their “grandpa record”—intended to describe growing older for a generation of gay men whose role models were decimated by AIDS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://remezcla.com/features/music/luis-illades-pansy-division-interview/ |title=Pansy Division's Luis Illades on Making a Record for a Generation Without Gay Punk Icons |author=Jhoni Jackson |date=2016-08-24 |access-date=2024-02-09 |publisher=Remezcla |language=en}}</ref>

==Track listing== {{track listing | collapsed = | headline = | total_length = | title1 = He's Trouble | length1 = 3:15 | writer1 = Ginoli | title2 = Love Came Along | length2 =3:38 | writer2 = Freeman | title3 = You're on the Phone | length3 = 2:22 | writer3 = Reader, Freeman, Illades | title4 = Kiss Me at Midnight (New Year's Eve) | length4 = 3:45 | writer4 = Ginoli | title5 = Halfway to Nowhere | length5 = 3:06 | writer5 = Freeman | title6 = Work on It, Babe | length6 = 3:01 | writer6 = Ginoli | title7 = I'm the Friend | length7 = 2:27 | writer7 = Ginoli | title8 = Blame the Bible<ref>{{cite web |url=https://uproxx.com/music/pansy-division-blame-the-bible-video/ |title= Premiere: Watch Queercore Legends Pansy Division Confront Homophobia In 'Blame The Bible' |first= Caitlin |last=White |publisher= Uproxx: the Culture of Now |date=2016-09-29 |access-date= 2023-05-17 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.punkrocktheory.com/news/pansy-division-release-video-blame-bible |title= Pansy Division release video for "Blame the Bible" |publisher=Punk Rock Theory |date=2016-09-30 |access-date=2023-05-17 |language=en}}</ref> | length8 = 3:38 | writer8 = Reader, Freeman, Illades | title9 = Mistakes | length9 = 2:07 | writer9 = Ginoli | title10 = It's a Sin | length10 = 3:37 | writer10 = Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe | title11 = My Heart Aches for You | length11 = 2:09 | writer11 = Ginoli | title12 = (Is This What It's Like) Getting Old | length12 = 2:52 | writer12 = Freeman | title13 = Too Much to Ask | length13 = 3:11 | writer13 = Ginoli | title14 = Something Beautiful | length14 = 4:49 | writer14 = Ginoli }}

==Personnel== '''Pansy Division''' *Jon Ginoli – guitar, vocals *Chris Freeman – bass, vocals *Luis Illades – drums, percussion *Joel Reader – lead guitar, vocals

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Category:2016 albums Category:Pansy Division albums Category:Alternative Tentacles albums