''Quite Contrary'' is the seventh studio album, ninth album overall, by American

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band

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, it was released on September 9, 2016 by

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. The cover features cover models

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and Moon Trent, who were the cover models for Pansy Division's 1996 album

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. 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.

Track listing

Personnel

Pansy Division *

Jon Ginoli Jon Latimer Ginoli (born in Peoria, Illinois) is an American guitarist. He is best known as a member of the band Pansy Division, which was founded by Ginoli and Chris Freeman in 1991. Pansy Division is known as one of the founding examples of t ...

– guitar, vocals * Chris Freeman – bass, vocals *Luis Illades – drums, percussion *Joel Reader – lead guitar, vocals

References

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