Don't Back Down by The Queers

Don't Back Down is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band the Queers, released in August 1996 by Lookout! Records. The band and Lookout! president Larry Livermore, who served as executive producer, sought to balance the sounds of the Ramones and the Beach Boys, and enlisted the help of former Queers guitarist JJ Rassler and Cub singer Lisa Marr. The album's title track is a cover version of the Beach Boys song of the same name; it also features covers of the Hondells' "Little Sidewalk Surfer Girl" and Hawaiian punk band the Catalogs' "Another Girl". The album produced the band's first music videos, for "Punk Rock Girls" and "Don't Back Down". Don't Back Down was the final Queers album with the lineup of singer and guitarist "Joe Queer" King, bassist Chris "B-Face" Barnard, and drummer Hugh O'Neill, and the last of four albums the band recorded for Lookout! during the 1990s. After its release, the band fractured over the possibility of signing to another label. King, who had been the only constant member since the band's formation, continued with new members and signed the group to Hopeless Records. The Queers returned to Lookout! in 2001 for the Today EP and the album Pleasant Screams, but soon parted ways with the label again. After they rescinded their master recordings from Lookout! in 2006, Don't Back Down was reissued by Asian Man Records the following year, having been remixed and remastered by producer Mass Giorgini and with the tracks from the Bubblegum Dreams EP added.