Beat Off is the fourth studio album by the American punk rock band the Queers, released in 1994 by Lookout! Records. Recorded during a time when the Queers' usual drummer, Hugh O'Neill, was on a forced leave of absence from the band to deal with heroin addiction, it featured Screeching Weasel drummer Dan Panic and guitarist Dan Vapid added to the lineup. It was the third and final Queers album produced by Screeching Weasel singer Ben Weasel, who insisted on a no-frills punk sound for the album and removed Vapid's tracks from the final mix without his knowledge. After the Queers rescinded their master recordings from Lookout! in 2006, Beat Off was reissued by Asian Man Records the following year, having been remixed and remastered by recording engineer Mass Giorgini. Background The Queers had a reputation as heavy drinkers and regular drug users, and by 1993 the members had developed problems with heroin use. Lookout! Records head Larry Livermore, who was in the studio with the band for 1993's Love Songs for the Retarded and for Beat Off, later recalled that singer and songwriter Joe King had decided to sober up, but that while he was able to cut back his alcohol consumption, heroin remained an issue for both him and drummer Hugh O'Neill: When Joe decided to clean up, there would be no half measures. The guy who'd helped litter the cover of Love Songs for the Retarded with empty Budweiser bottles laid down the law: no booze allowed in the studio or backstage anytime he was playing, recording, or practicing. Joe talked a good game about alcohol, but his real problem, like Hugh's, was drugs. I would never see him take another drink, but there would be times when it was painfully obvious he was messed up on junk. When he stayed clean—which, to his credit, was most of the time—he was a joy to work with. But as soon as heroin re-entered the picture, his songwriting would dry up, he'd grow irritable and contentious, and there'd be little point in even trying to talk to him. King was trying to quit heroin, and staged an intervention for O'Neill involving Livermore and several of O'Neill's friends and family members. "The intervention felt doubly awkward", wrote Livermore, "because Joe, who'd organized and led it, hadn't been off heroin that long himself." O'Neill was forced to take a leave of