Deflowered Explained

Deflowered
Type:Album
Artist:Pansy Division
Cover:Deflowered (1994 Pansy Division album).jpg
Released:June 1994
Recorded:December 1993–January 1994
Studio:Komotion in San Francisco
Genre:Queercore, pop punk, power pop
Length:43:26
Label:Lookout! Records
Prev Title:Undressed
Prev Year:1993
Next Title:Pile Up
Next Year:1995

Deflowered is the second studio album by American queercore band Pansy Division, released in 1994 on Lookout! Records.[1] [2]

The cover features a photograph of Mark Ewert (left) and Moon Trent (right), taken by Marc Geller. The two men also appear together on the cover of Pansy Division's 1996 album Wish I'd Taken Pictures and their 2016 album Quite Contrary.

Critical reception

AllMusic praised Deflowered for its "wry, silly and heartfelt" songwriting, singling out singer Jon Ginoli's "engagingly nerdish" vocals and "sweetly enjoyable" harmonizing with bassist Chris Freeman. Trouser Press wrote that "Ginoli’s melodic constructs are appreciably better on Deflowered; a raunchier guitar sound gives the improved second album more punk body."[3] The Dallas Observer called the album "snappy" and "rollicking," and deemed it the band's best.[4]

Track listing

All songs written by Jon Ginoli, except where noted.

  1. "Reciprocate" – 2:52
  2. "Groovy Underwear" – 3:38
  3. "Anonymous" – 2:55
  4. "Fluffy City" – 3:22
  5. "James Bondage" (Chris Freeman) – 2:51
  6. "Negative Queen" – 3:21
  7. "Denny" (Ginoli, Healey) – 2:38
  8. "Rachbottomoff" – 4:02
  9. "Beercan Boy" – 2:13
  10. "Kissed" (Ginoli, Freeman) – 2:29
  11. "A Song of Remembrance for Old Boyfriends" (Jonathan Richman) – 3:26
  12. "Deep Water" – 2:08
  13. "Not Enough of You to Go Around" – 2:23
  14. "New Pleasures" – 3:31
  15. "Homosapien" (Pete Shelley) – 2:18

Personnel

References

  1. Web site: Pansy Division | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  2. Book: Arnold, Gina. Kiss This: Punk In The Present Tense. September 23, 2014. St. Martin's Griffin. 9781466881983. Google Books.
  3. Web site: Pansy Division . Trouser Press . 8 December 2020.
  4. Web site: Beercan boys. Jimmy. Fowler. March 6, 1997. Dallas Observer.