What Is Not to Love explained
What Is Not to Love is the second album by indie-rock band Imperial Teen.[2] [3] It is the follow-up to their first full-length record, Seasick (1996), and was released in 1998 via Slash Records.[4]
Critical reception
Entertainment Weekly wrote that "there's something fundamentally warm and cuddly about the mixed-gender quartet's seductive mix of indie-rock cliches (distorted guitars, diffident vocals) and hook-and-harmony-informed popcraft".[5]
Track listing
All songs written by Imperial Teen.
- "Open Season" – 2:25
- "Birthday Girl" – 3:36
- "Yoo Hoo" – 3:30
- "Lipstick" – 4:00
- "Alone in the Grass" – 7:15
- "Crucible" – 4:18
- "The Beginning" – 2:39
- "Year of the Tan" – 3:05
- "Seven" – 4:33
- "Hooray" (live) – 7:11
- "Beauty" – 2:52
Personnel
Band members
Technical staff
- Mark Freegard – producer, engineer, mixing
- Andre Moran – engineer
- Mark Saunders – mixing
- Greg Freeman – engineer
- Bill Inglot – mastering
- Matt Kelley – engineer
- Mickey Petralia – producer, mixing
- Chris Scard – second engineer
- Gabriel Shepard – second engineer
- Matt Wallace – mixing
- Howard Willing – second engineer
Notes and References
- Web site: Imperial Teen What Is Not To Love. www.tinymixtapes.com.
- Web site: Imperial Teen | Biography & History. AllMusic.
- Web site: What's Not To Love About Imperial Teen? / With a new album out, S.F. band shrugs off the whole gay thing. Aidin. Vaziri. June 21, 1998. SFGATE.
- Web site: Rock Bottum. The Advocate. February 16, 1999. Here Publishing. Google Books.
- Web site: What Is Not to Love. EW.com.
