Yesterday's featured artists The Muffs released the original version of today's song on their 1995 Blonder And Blonder album. The song was covered by one of my favourite bands, The Queers, on the 2007 reissue of their classic album Don't Back Down (which had first seen the light of day in 1996). There's not many punk bands that can match Queers frontman Joe Queer (aka Joe King) when it comes to churning out harmonies to die for and his vocals on End It All are no exception to this rule. I assume everyone's familiar with the band so I don't really need to add much more except that Love Songs For The Retarded is pretty much as good as any album ever released and should be in everyone's collection (and several other of their albums aren't far behind), so without further ado, a sweet sounding song with a bitter centre, this is End It All.........
Everyone's wrong
And you can't get along
Will you take it easy
Or will you go end it all now
Someday you'll find
That you're out of your mind
Will you take it easy
Or will you go end it all now
Do you want to take the time now
Do you want to ease your mind
Will you take it easy
Or will you go end it all now
If you want it easy
You might as well end it all now
If you want to hurt another
If you want to hurt them now
You'll be gone forever
If you go end it forever
Will you go end it forever
Will you go end it all now
End it all now
End it all now
I love this rendition. The original is so perfect that it seems almost pointless to cover it - but leave it to the Queers to pull it off! Definitely the second best Queers album behind Love Songs For The Retarded - always loved that pure pop side of The Queers.
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