Total Entertainment!

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Total Entertainment!
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 12, 2003
Genre Queercore, punk rock
Length45:20
Label Alternative Tentacles [1]
Producer Chris Xefos
Pansy Division chronology
Absurd Pop Song Romance
(1998)
Total Entertainment!
(2003)
The Essential Pansy Division
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Total Entertainment! is a studio album by American queercore band Pansy Division. [3] [4] It was released in 2003 by Alternative Tentacles. [5] [6]

Contents

Critical reception

Now called the album "a goofy alt-rock amusement park ride of a record, with more hooks than a crocheting bee in a doily-happy nursing home and the gayest lyrics this side of Rufus Wainwright." [7] The Richmond Times-Dispatch called it "pipin' with hilarity and crunching power pop." [8] The Advocate called it the band's "most varied effort to date." [9]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
0."untitled pre-gap track" 0:55
1."Who Treats You Right?"lyrics: Ginoli, music: Ginoli/Freeman2:20
2."Blurry Down Below"lyrics: Ginoli, music: Ginoli/Freeman/Goodwin/Illades2:19
3."When He Comes Home"Freeman2:59
4."Too Many Hoops"lyrics: Ginoli, music: Ginoli/Freeman2:54
5."Spiral"Freeman3:09
6."Saddest Song"lyrics: Ginoli, music: Ginoli/Freeman/Goodwin3:13
7."No Protection"lyrics: Freeman/Ginoli, music: Freeman/Ginoli/Goodwin3:59
8."Alpine Skiing"Ginoli3:14
9."Not Good Enough"Freeman1:20
10."Scared to Death"Freeman2:02
11."I'm Alright"Ginoli2:30
12."First Betrayal"Freeman4:02
13."Sleeping in the Cold"lyrics: Freeman, music: Freeman/Ginoli/Goodwin/Illades4:23
14."He Whipped My Ass in Tennis, Then I Fucked His Ass in Bed"Ginoli2:08
15."Total Entertainment"lyrics: Ginoli/Goodwin, music: Goodwin/Freeman/Ginoli2:07
16."At the Mall" (Bonus track unlisted on the back cover, but listed in the lyric sheet)Ginoli12:06
Total length:45:20

0 is about 40 seconds of silence, followed by what sounds like a movie sample, set in a record store, in which a woman offers to play the new Pansy Division they just got in and a man declines. 16 is preceded by a 2:55 silent pre-gap.

Personnel

Pansy Division

Additional musicians

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References

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  3. "Sock It to Your Hole! – OC Weekly". www.ocweekly.com.
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