The Looks or the Lifestyle?

The Looks or the Lifestyle?

Artwork by The Designers Republic
Studio album by Pop Will Eat Itself
Released 7 September 1992
Recorded Rockfield Studios, 1991
Genre Grebo, industrial rock
Length 46.10
Label RCA
Producer Boilerhouse
Pop Will Eat Itself chronology

Cure for Sanity
(1990)		 The Looks or the Lifestyle?
(1992)		 Dos Dedos Mis Amigos
(1994)
Singles from The Looks or the Lifestyle?
  1. "Karmadrome/Eat Me Drink Me Love Me Kill Me"
    Released: 26 May 1992
  2. "Bulletproof!"
    Released: 17 August 1992
  3. "Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies"
    Released: 1 January 1993
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Allmusic [1]

The Looks or the Lifestyle? is the fourth album by UK based Grebo band, Pop Will Eat Itself released 7 September 1992.

Background

During the Cure for Sanity-era the band were scheduled to play Dance of the Mad Bastards on Top of the Pops and recruited Fuzz Townshend to mime the drums although they then never did play the song on Top of the Pops.[2] In 1991 the band recruited Townshend as the band's drummer and he agreed. The album was produced by London DJ's Ben Wolff and Andy Dean (also known as Boilerhouse) and the band recorded the album in Rockfield Studios in the Welsh countryside[3] and was mixed in London. The first single to be released was "Karmadrome" (originally called "The Scottish Song", but then changed to "Karmadrome"), with B-side "Eat Me Drink Me Love Kill Me",[4] which went to number #17 in the UK Charts in June '92.[5] They released "Bulletproof", the second single from the album, on 17 August 1992, which didn't do as well as they had hoped but still managed to go to number #24 in the charts and a video was also made. On 7 September 1992 they released the album in UK and Japan and they then released it worldwide in October 1992. On 1 January 1993 they released the "Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies" single which was a massive hit and was their highest charting single going at number #9 in the charts and the album itself went at number #15.

Track listing

  1. "England's Finest"
  2. "Eat Me Drink Me Love Me Kill Me"
  3. "Mother"
  4. "Get The Girl + Kill The Baddies"
  5. "I've Always Been a Coward, Baby"
  6. "Token Drug Song"
  7. "Karmadrome"
  8. "Urban Futuristic (Son of South Central)"
  9. "Pretty Pretty"
  10. "I Was A Teenage Grandad"
  11. "Harry Dean Stanton"
  12. "Bulletproof!"

Personnel

Pop Will Eat Itself

Additional Musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (1988) Peak
position
UK Chart 15

Release history

Region Date Distributing Label
UK/Japan 1 September 1992 RCA
US/Canada 27 October 1992 RCA

References

  1. ↑ "The Looks or the Lifestyle? - Pop Will Eat Itself". Allmusic.
  2. ↑ http://pweination.com/pwei/popwilleatitself/index/news/item/99
  3. ↑ http://pweination.com/pwei/popwilleatitself/index/news/item/99
  4. ↑ http://pweination.com/pwei/popwilleatitself/index/news/item/99
  5. ↑ http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/pop%20will%20eat%20itself/