Later Days And Better Lays is compilation album of demo versions, alternate versions, and unreleased songs by pop punk band The Queers.

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Later Days And Better Lays
Compilation album by The Queers
Released	March 23, 1999[1]
Genre	Pop punk, punk rock
Label	Lookout![2] LK-216
Producer	Jim Tierney Tracks 18-21, by Mass Giorgini
The Queers chronology
Punk Rock Confidential (1998) Later Days And Better Lays (1999) Beyond The Valley... (2000)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Punknews.org	[4]

It was the band's last album for Lookout!.[5] Drummer Hugh O'Neill died of brain cancer about two months before the album was released.[1]

The album contains a hidden track, a cover of the Beach Boys song God Only Knows,[6] which is the bands fourth recorded cover of that band’s songs.

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that "the Queers have always kept it simple and stupid, but these demos reveal that they started with all the chops necessary for blitzkrieg boppers like 'I Hate Everything' and 'Nobody Likes Me.'"[7]

Track listing

All tracks written by Joe Queer, except as noted.

1. "Granola Head"
2. "I Hate Everything"
3. "Murder In The Brady House" (Ben Weasel)
4. "I Won't Be"
5. "Nobody Likes Me"
6. "Can't Stop Farting"
7. "Night Of The Livid Queers"
8. "Monster Zero"
9. "Too Many Twinkies"
10. "Teenage Bonehead"
11. "Half Shitfaced"
12. "Hi Mom It's Me"
13. "I Live This Life"
14. "Feeling Groovy"
15. "Born To Do Dishes"
16. "Junk Freak"
17. "No Tit"
18. "Little Honda" (Brian Wilson/Mike Love)
19. "End It All" (Kim Shattuck)
20. "I Can't Get Over You" (Queer/Lisa Marr)
21. "Never Ever" (Queer/JJ Rassler) / "God Only Knows" (hidden track) (Brian Wilson/Tony Asher)

References