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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Slash / Umgd
Salesrank: 147665
Released: February 23, 1999 |
| Our Price: $48.56 |
| Used Price: $2.99 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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What Is Not to Love Track Listing:
1. Open Season
2. Birthday Girl
3. Yoo Hoo
4. Lipstick
5. Alone in the Grass
6. Crucible
7. Beginning
8. Year of the Tan
9. Seven
10. Hooray [Live]
11. Beauty
Editorial Review:
Not since the Pixies has there been a heavy pop band that is as sultry as Imperial Teen. Watch out, though--they move fast. If their first album, Seasick, was a great first date, they've jumped right into the sack on the furious, lusty What Is Not to Love. The album starts strong: "Open Season" is a rousing hello with bouncy keyboards, and "Birthday Girl"--a "beauty in a bridal gown" who "falls in love with everything"--is foreplay that quickly gets out of hand. By the time the fourth track, "Lipstick," rolls around, ex-Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum is demanding to know "Why you gotta be so proud? / I'm the one with lipstick on." by "The Beginning," Will Schwartz is not impressed that "you're fucking movie stars" because, well, he's "fucking congressmen." More developed than Seasick, the songs on Love feature everything from a trio of nuggets that clock in under three minutes to a pair of seven-minute-plus tracks (the feedback-fest "Alone in the Grass" and the--initially--softer "Hooray"). Death to the Pixies, hell--long live Imperial Teen. --Randy Silver
What Is Not to Love Reviews:
Never received 
2009-01-06 - I never received the item, after the date I was to have received the CD by I asked for a refund and was given one.
Jamie Pressly 
2008-04-12 - Hello,I buy cd for all kinds of reasons...This time it was for Jamie Pressly and her SUPER HOT part in the movie Not another teen movie. The cd not to bad either...
Imperial Teens hit Puberty 
2004-09-26 - Darker than their debut, the four Imperial Teens forge into their second album with the same wit that would make Sparks or the Pixies proud. Still as lyrically subversive as ever ("why you gotta be so proud, I'm the one with lipstick on") and spewing out hooks that make you hate radio for not latching onto the likes of "Yoo Hoo" (or "Seasick's" "You're One"), "What is Not To Love" is clever without being sardonic. If that sounds like a recommendation to you, then by all means, pick this up.
Radio stinks!
2003-01-06 - Well, if that isn't an understatement. I found Imperial Teen later than most. I hate the radio. They should be playing this album or Lovesick or Go ... not the other homogenized ... you hear everyday. Sure, there is some good rap, and occasional goot alt rockers. But, most of it sounds the same and is .... These guys should be blasting from the radio. Why not? I would have heard this album sooner. This is great rock, great songs, Poppy yet noisy too. Intelligent but sexual too. Too smart to cave to the demands of corporate radio. A great live act. This CD is a bit catchier and more tuneful than Seasick. Where Seasick was a little noisier and punker this has catchier hooks. The lyrics are great especially that line about doing a congressman. Ok, now I know why programmers can't play this.
Not essential, but a great album
2002-03-16 - This CD doesn't really break any new ground, although it definately has its own sound. Most of the songs are fairly similar sounding, and not really experimental, but its still the kind of CD you can listen to straight through. There's a neat feel of lightness and bouyancy throughout the music that'll probably be the main reason you'll want to stick it in your player.
By the way, the song Yoo Hoo is awesome, probably the best reason to buy this disk. For some strange reason I find it incredibly hilarious and it cracks me up every time I hear it, I usually start laughing even before the singer comes in. Roddy Bottum acts like he's talking on the phone near the end. "Hello, are you there? I know you're there! I can heeeeaaar you..." The song is just cool, plain and simple.
