# Quite Contrary

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Quite Contrary
| type       = studio
| artist     = [Pansy Division](/source/Pansy_Division)
| cover      = PDQuiteContrary.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{start date|2016|9|9}}
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Queercore](/source/Queercore), [pop-punk](/source/pop-punk), [power pop](/source/power_pop)
| length     =
| label      = [Alternative Tentacles](/source/Alternative_Tentacles)
| producer   = Pansy Division
| prev_title = [That's So Gay](/source/That's_So_Gay)
| prev_year  = 2009
| next_title =
| next_year  =
}}
'''''Quite Contrary''''' is the seventh studio album, ninth album overall, by American [queercore](/source/queercore) band [Pansy Division](/source/Pansy_Division), it was released on September 9, 2016 by [Alternative Tentacles](/source/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](/source/Marcus_Ewert) and [Moon Trent](/source/Moon_Trent), who were the cover models for Pansy Division's 1996 album [Wish I'd Taken Pictures](/source/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](/source/Jon_Ginoli)
| title2 = Love Came Along
| length2 =3:38
| writer2 = [Freeman](/source/Chris_Freeman_(musician))
| 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](/source/It's_a_Sin)
| length10 = 3:37
| writer10 = [Neil Tennant](/source/Neil_Tennant), [Chris Lowe](/source/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](/source/Jon_Ginoli) – guitar, vocals
*[Chris Freeman](/source/Chris_Freeman_(musician)) – bass, vocals
*Luis Illades – drums, percussion
*Joel Reader – lead guitar, vocals

== References ==
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