Wish I'd Taken Pictures

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Sales Rank: 202174 Lookout Released: 1996-02-23

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Media: Audio CD

1. Horny in the Morning
2. Vanilla
3. I Really Wanted You
4. Dick of Death - Pansy Division, Freeman, Chris
5. Expiration Date
6. The Summer You Let Your Hair Grow Out
7. Wish I'd Taken Pictures
8. Pillow Talk - Pansy Division, Ginoli, Jon
9. This Is Your Life
10. Don't Be So Sure
11. Kevin
12. The Ache
13. Pee Shy
14. Sidewalk Sale

• Audio CD: 0 pages (1996-02-23)
• Publisher: Lookout
• Label: Lookout
• Studio: Lookout
• Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews
• Sales Rank in Music: #202174

The music is OK, personally, I'd rather listen to Green Day, but Pansy Division's lyrics are so much more interesting! Five stars for daring to go where most bands don't. Three stars for musical talent. Averages out to four stars.

(Click on the "about me" link above if you'd like to discuss this CD some more. Thanks!)


3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

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Summary: Songs About Me 2000-08-13
Comment: I'm a gay man who like rock. No modern jazz. No musicals (I'm not that old). When I'm not listening to Pansy Division, I'm listening to Nirvana or Green Day or Blink-182. Pansy Division writes music in that genre with a gay twist. So: if you're straight, you might not get this. (Oh, and if you wonder why they spend so much time about being gay, do realize that when gay people listen to the radio, we hear all these songs about being straight. What is it with you people?) If you don't like rock, or stopped liking rock in the 80s, you're not going to like their songs. If you're like me, they're writing about your life too, and in the type of music you like.

This was the first Pansy Division CD I bought. Within days I had all of them. I have continued to buy them as they come out with new ones. When they next release a CD, I'll buy it too.

Thank you Pansy Division.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

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Summary: Do you really want to be a teenager again? 2000-02-16
Comment: While this CD could have been written by me, or someone like me, based on my teenage year experiences, I'm content to let those years remain part of the past at this point.

There's no doubt about the energy & enthusiasm of the band here (it'a kind of refreshing to hear gay guys who sound like they're having fun just cutteing loose musically, on a CD), and I hope that the lyrics will let gay boys know that they are not 'wierd' or alone in their fellings, or fantasies, but this is not without some serious flaws as a piece of recorded music.

First, the engineering is terrible. The mix has no depth, and the band's sound changes little from song to song.

Second, the songs themselves are musically undeveloped. Most just start and stop after about 3 minutes. There are not enough tunes here with good musical progressions, hooks, rhythmic themes, or any of the other attributes which make great rock music memorable.

Third, the lyrics tend to get a bit preachy in places. But fortunately, the preachy ones are barely intelligible over the guitars.

But on the plus side, the music does capture the uneasiness and fear which confronts most gay boys (who are often lonely, and, due to the social pressure to conform, unable to express their sexuality without experiencing some backlash from classmates or others).

Also, despite its callowness as art, the CD does sound appropriately puerile to appeal to the teenage boys it's undoubtedly aimed at.