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?

"Karmadrome/Eat Me Drink Me Love Me Kill Me"
Released: 26 May 1992
"Bulletproof!"
Released: 17 August 1992
"Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies"
Released: 1 January 1993

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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

"England's Finest"
"Eat Me Drink Me Love Me Kill Me"
"Mother"
"Get The Girl + Kill The Baddies"
"I've Always Been a Coward, Baby"
"Token Drug Song"
"Karmadrome"
"Urban Futuristic (Son of South Central)"
"Pretty Pretty"
"I Was A Teenage Grandad"
"Harry Dean Stanton"
"Bulletproof!"

Personnel

Pop Will Eat Itself

Clint Mansell - Vocals
Graham Crabb - Vocals
Adam Mole - Guitar
Richard March - Guitar
Fuzz Townshend - Drums

Additional Musicians

"The Buzzard" - Wild Guitar (tracks 2, 3, 7 to 10)

Production

Artwork - The Designers Republic
Written by - Vestan Pance (Pop Will Eat Itself)
Mixed by - Kennan Keating
Engineer - Noel Rafferty

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

Pop Will Eat Itself

Graham Crabb Mary Byker Tim Muddiman Davey Bennett Jason Bowld Clint Mansell Richard March Adam Mole Robert "Fuzz" Townshend Kerry "The Buzzard" Hammond

Albums	Box Frenzy Now For A Feast! (compilation) This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! Cure for Sanity The Looks or the Lifestyle? Dos Dedos Mis Amigos Two Fingers My Friends! (remix album) New Noise Designed by a Sadist

EPs	"The Poppies Say GRRrrr!" "Poppiecock" "Very Metal Noise Pollution" "Amalgamation"

Singles	"Sweet Sweet Pie" "Love Missile F1-11" "Beaver Patrol" "There Is No Love Between Us Anymore" "Def. Con. One" "Can U Dig It?" "Wise Up! Sucker" "Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina" "Dance of the Mad Bastards" "Another Man's Rhubarb" "X Y & Zee" "92 Degrees" "Karmadrome" / "Eat Me Drink Me Love Me" "Bulletproof!" "Get The Girl! Kill The Baddies!" "R.S.V.P. / Familius Horribilus" "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" "Everything's Cool"

Related articles	Bentley Rhythm Ace Golden Claw Musics Vileevils The Designers Republic

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