Grow Up

About Grow Up

Grow Up is the debut album by the American punk rock band the Queers. Recorded in multiple sessions between 1986 and 1988, with various band members and session musicians backing singer and guitarist Joe King (aka Joe Queer), it was originally released as an LP record in 1990 by British label Shakin' Street Records. However, the label went out of business after only 1,000 copies were pressed. The Queers had more copies pressed themselves, continuing to list Shakin' Street as the record label, but when they failed to pay their bill the pressing plant destroyed all but approximately 160 copies, which the band released with a photocopied album cover. In 1993 the Queers signed to Lookout! Records, who released their second album, Love Songs for the Retarded. Lookout! reissued Grow Up the following year, altering the cover art and track order and having the album remixed by Ben Weasel of the band Screeching Weasel. After the Queers rescinded their master recordings from Lookout! in 2006, Grow Up was reissued by Asian Man Records the following year; for this edition, the cover art and track order were altered again and the album was remixed by King, former Queers guitarist JJ Rassler, and Mass Giorgini, who had engineered and produced many of the band's later records. Five demo tracks recorded in 1986 were also added to this edition more »