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What Is Not to Love
Studio album by Imperial Teen
Released	September 15, 1998
Genre	Indie rock, indie pop
Length	45:24
Label	Slash
Producer	Mark Freegard, Steve McDonald
Imperial Teen chronology
Seasick (1996) What Is Not to Love (1998) On (2002)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Robert Christgau	A−
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Rolling Stone
Spin	6/10
Tiny Mix Tapes

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

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".

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

• Roddy Bottum – guitar, vocals
• Will Schwartz – guitar, vocals
• Jone Stebbins – bass, backing vocals
• Lynn Truell – drums, backing vocals

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

References

1. ^ "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.

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