Move Back Home is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band the Queers, released in May 1995 by Lookout!

president Larry Livermore was so displeased with the result that he took his name off of the album, and several involved parties, including singer and guitarist Joe Queer, later regarded it as sub-par.

[2] He rejoined the band that summer, playing on the Surf Goddess EP; Livermore produced the recording, and later recalled the sessions as being extremely enjoyable.

In some cases, he hadn't gotten farther than a title [...] The new record was essentially written in the studio, with Mass Giorgini waiting patiently at his mixing board while we struggled to come up with ideas, riffs, and choruses.

[3]King recalled that "there were a few fights" during recording, including an incident in which he, irritable over having to get up early to work on repeated vocal takes while his bandmates slept in until the afternoon, launched into a tirade and threatened to quit the sessions.

[4] Livermore later recalled that he struggled to teach the band the song: "'Joe, it doesn't go quite like that,' I'd say, and try to get him to listen to the original recording.

[4] According to King, the band wanted to title the album Next Stop Rehab, "but Lookout in their infinite stupidity made us change it.

co-owner] Patrick Hynes, and the band seemed to like the Queers cats I was making", said Appelgren in 2014; "I had borrowed some old Felix comics for the art for Loves Songs for the Retarded and was continuing the theme.

"[5] In his book Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records (2014), author Kevin Prested called it "the band's filler album.

With punk-by-the-numbers compositions, the Queers had lost some of the flair of the two previous albums, giving the impression of rushed new songs.

While not bad by any means, the band had been building up to something on another level with the fantastic Love Songs for the Retarded and Beat Off, which is probably why Move Back Home felt disappointing.

"[8][9] One critic who did give the album a positive review was Kembrew McLeod; Writing for AllMusic, he rated it 4 stars out of 5 and said "Move Back Home demonstrates that the Queers are getting better and better at channeling the black leather jacket-clad spirit of their punk forefathers [the Ramones].

artists in rescinding their master tapes and licensing rights from the label, invoking a clause in their contract citing delinquent royalty payments.

[6] The 2007 reissue on Asian Man Records credits Barnard and O'Neill as co-writers on seven total tracks, and omits Vapid.