| 词条 | The Looks or the Lifestyle? | |||||||||||||
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}}{{Infobox album | name = The Looks or the Lifestyle? | type = studio | artist = Pop Will Eat Itself | cover = The Looks or the Lifestyle? (Pop Will Eat Itself album - cover art).jpg | alt = | released = 7 September 1992 | recorded = 1991 | venue = | studio = Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire | genre = {{hlist|Alternative dance| alternative rock[1]}} | length = 46.10 | label = RCA | producer = Boilerhouse | prev_title = Cure for Sanity | prev_year = 1990 | next_title = Dos Dedos Mis Amigos | next_year = 1994 | misc = {{Singles | name = The Looks or the Lifestyle? | type = studio | single1 = Karmadrome/Eat Me Drink Me Love Me Kill Me | single1date = 26 May 1992 | single2 = Bulletproof! | single2date = 17 August 1992 | single3 = Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies | single3date = 1 January 1993 }} }}{{Album ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}[2] | rev9 = Select | rev9Score = {{Rating|3|5}}[3] }} The Looks or the Lifestyle? is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Pop Will Eat Itself, released on 7 September 1992 by RCA Records. BackgroundDuring 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.[4] 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[4] 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 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 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 number 9 in the charts and the album itself went at number number 15. MusicThe Looks or the Lifestyle? shows the band working in a dancier style that began to surface on Cure for Sanity,[6] whilst the harsher, industrial rock sound that characterised the band's later work would appear on some songs such as "Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me, Kill Me" and "Urban Futuristic".[6] The album stirs the band in a less commercial direction, a result of the band ignoring RCA's press for them to in fact head into a more commercial direction.[6]Critical receptionThe Looks or the Lifestyle? is not considered the band's best album. Josh Landau of Allmusic rated it two stars out of five and said it was "certainly not their best effort,"[6] whilst Trouser Press said the album sounds "factory-built, underwritten and overproduced."[7]Track listing
PersonnelPop Will Eat Itself
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=The Looks or the Lifestyle - Pop Will Eat Itself {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-looks-or-the-lifestyle-mw0000088717|website=AllMusic|accessdate=14 December 2016}} {{Pop Will Eat Itself}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Looks or the Lifestyle?, The}}2. ^{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r59871|pure_url=yes}}|title=The Looks or the Lifestyle? – Pop Will Eat Itself|publisher=Allmusic}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2014/09/albums52.jpg |title=REVIEWS |work=Select |accessdate=11 September 2014}} 4. ^1 2 pop will eat itself – The Looks Or The Lifestyle 5. ^POP WILL EAT ITSELF | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company 6. ^1 2 3 The Looks or the Lifestyle – Pop Will Eat Itself | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic 7. ^TrouserPress.com :: Pop Will Eat Itself 4 : Pop Will Eat Itself albums|1992 albums|RCA Records albums|Albums recorded at Rockfield Studios |
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