What Is Not to Love

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What Is Not to Love
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Studio album by
Released US September 15, 1998
Genre Indie rock, indie pop
Length45:24
Label Slash [1]
Producer Mark Freegard, Steve McDonald
Imperial Teen chronology
Seasick
(1996)
What Is Not to Love
(1998)
On
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Robert Christgau A− [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Spin 6/10 [6]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]

What Is Not to Love is the second album by indie-rock band Imperial Teen. [7] [8] It is the follow-up to their first full-length record, Seasick (1996), and was released in 1998 via Slash Records. [9]

Contents

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". [10]

Track listing

All songs written by Imperial Teen.

  1. "Open Season" – 2:25
  2. "Birthday Girl" – 3:36
  3. "Yoo Hoo" – 3:30
  4. "Lipstick" – 4:00
  5. "Alone in the Grass" – 7:15
  6. "Crucible" – 4:18
  7. "The Beginning" – 2:39
  8. "Year of the Tan" – 3:05
  9. "Seven" – 4:33
  10. "Hooray" (live) – 7:11
  11. "Beauty" – 2:52

Personnel

Band members

Technical staff

References

  1. 1 2 "Imperial Teen What Is Not To Love". www.tinymixtapes.com.
  2. Damas, Jason. "allmusic ((( What Is Not to Love > Review )))". Allmusic . Retrieved March 18, 2010.
  3. Christgau, Robert. "Imperial Teen". robertchristgau.com, Retrieved on March 18, 2010.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 463.
  5. Brackett, Nathan. "Imperial Teen". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. November 2004. pg. 403, cited March 18, 2010
  6. "Reviews". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. March 21, 1999 via Google Books.
  7. "Imperial Teen | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. Vaziri, Aidin (June 21, 1998). "What's Not To Love About Imperial Teen? / With a new album out, S.F. band shrugs off the whole gay thing". SFGATE.
  9. "Rock Bottum". The Advocate. Here Publishing. February 16, 1999 via Google Books.
  10. "What Is Not to Love". EW.com.