Queer (Original US Version with alternate mixes and 2 bonus tracks) - 15 track CD [Extra tracks]

Wolfgang Press | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 14, 2000)
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: 4AD / Warner Bros.
• ASIN: B00004YZVP
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,182,427 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Girl Like You

2. Birmingham

3. 'Mama Told Me Not To Come'

4. Heavens Gate

5. Riders Of The Heart

6. Question Of Time

7. 'Louis XIV'

8. Fakes & Liars

9. (Honey Tree)

10. Birdie Song

11. Dreams & (And) Light

12. Sucker

13. Mother Valentine

14. (Angel)

15. Sucker M.F.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Important note RE: this CD, November 15, 2003

By 

O.D Jones (Apollo Beach,Fl. US of A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Queer (Original US Version with alternate mixes and 2 bonus tracks) - 15 track CD (Audio CD)

For obsessive types heres a quick note.You need the import copy of this,the one that doesn't start with "A girl like you".The
US version deletes some of the great samples (Velvet Underground,
Being There,etc) on the import disk. when I DJ'd in the early nineties,this disc and the remix 12" of "sucker" and "mama told me not to come were" just HUGE favorites.Get "Bird Wood Cage" as well,these guys are up there with Felt as a Great Unknown Band!!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How Queer thought Alice while listening to her headphones!, March 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Queer (Original US Version with alternate mixes and 2 bonus tracks) - 15 track CD (Audio CD)

This is one of my favorite all time CDs. It needs to be listened to with headphones to truely appreciate the production that went into this CD. There is a new squelch, new beat, new melody every time I listen to it. Complex, intellectually dense, melodically difficult, but EXTREMELY catchy, funky, poppy. Maintains an incredible quality throughout a long album. The US version starts off with "A Girl Like You" and each song is distinct, but within the same framework. This is a band at it's height, riding a wave of creativity. I can't say enough good things about this CD. Incredibly weird, but incredibly REAL, if that makes sense. It's not off trying to be futuristic or psuedofunk or anything, it's just a wonderful combination of production, songwriting, sampling, and performance. And the graphic design is great, to top it off!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing under-appreciated gem, September 25, 2001

By 

Billy Campbell (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Queer (Original US Version with alternate mixes and 2 bonus tracks) - 15 track CD (Audio CD)

Like most great music, it is very hard to describe what makes it great. But I will try.

The Wolfgang Press (sadly no longer together) had been slogging out records since the mid '80s. They were good, some very good. Then they created.... this. Queer has little in common with their previous work. It mixes biting, sometimes cynical lyrics with an interesting blend of dance-style music replete with Motown touches and the occasional noise flourish.

Rhythmic, melodic, intense, original - and complete with a Randy Newman cover, this record deserved a wider audience than it ever received. If you enjoy truly original work - not following the dictums of any particular genre, performed perfectly and passionately, you may think this record is as great as I do.