Today’s Random Album is A Day Late and a Dollar Short from The Queers. This is a compilation album of their material. and they are a pop punk or punk rock band depending on your angle.

They are not queer for what it is worth. It’s definitely ok to have thoughts about that. Joe Queer sometimes has good opinions (hate nazis) but sometimes has shitty ones (make excuses for Ferguson shooting). All worth knowing but influence my decision on if I keep their music. Overall the band has had like 50 different musicians. So their lineup has changed a lot over the years. Lots of people can claim to have been part of The Queers.

Musically they are fun mostly, Lots of tight short songs with great rhythm and often stupid lyrics. And sometimes iffy lyrics.

Rating: 9.0 (on music alone)

Favorite Track(s): “Terminal Rut” is good. And then the songs are so short and fast I can’t keep up. But honestly lots of good songs. Solid material. And certainly early pop punk and did a lot to inspire that sound.

Keep or Trash: Trash. I debated trashing it and was torn about it. But in the end my wife and I agreed we won’t really want to listen to it much – if at all. Co-opting queerness might have been punk for a cis hetero white boy in 1981 in a way but in 2026 not so much. We’ll listen to some queercore instead.