A*Teens

Now this is what you should avoid! ABBA songs regeared yet again for the mainstream to make more money. ABBA did enough damage in the 70's. Go for Mamma Mia!, either the new movie or the original broadway version.

-/10

The Amazon reviewer - "Does the world really need the glorious pop gems of Abba to be slavishly rerecorded by a bunch of Swedish teenagers? The answer in this case is no.", is just wrong. The answer is yes! Obviously, self important music critics are going to sneer. I'm sure they'd rather listen to Bob Dylan bootlegs or whatever. Not me.

I love ABBA and I love the A Teens' covers too. They are just a little poppier and a little more digital. They capture the spirit of the music well.

I listen to this all the time and my favorites are probably The Name of the Game and SOS.

I bought this CD to play on my computer at work. However, it has a copy protection software on it that Universal Music created back in the 1990s, and it crashes when you try to use it on a modern computer. The only way to "open" the CD is to let it install a piece of software on your computer called "Universal Media Player". That software is supposed to make the music tracks on the CD available to you. But when you try to start the music, the software crashes. Universal Music probably thought they were so brilliant back in 1999, but instead they've created worthless CDs. Oops!

This cd was terrific. They are fresh, fun, and sound great. Very good for dancing too.

1. Mamma Mia - 20/10 It is very awesome to dance and to sing to,great beat
2. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)- 10/10 Awesome cover!
3. Super Trouper - 10/10 Damn it is so fine
4. One Of Us - 7/10 its okay
5. Voulez-Vous - 20/10 THE BEST!!! Very danceable
6. S.O.S. - 9/10 one of the best; but it is too fast
7. Dancing Queen - 9/10 everyone loves this song at one point; cool
8. Take A Chance On Me - 10/10 So hot!!!!
9. Lay All Your Love On Me - 7/1- not a fan of it, could use more beats
10. The Name Of The Game - 10/10 OOMG !!!
11. Our Last Summer - 6/10 lame/ the only bad song on here


Overall the abba generation is like 100 out of 10.... it is a phat album, very easy to dance to.... very awesome beats && this album will never die.

&& You should buy this album, this was like my 7th time buying it, yes, it is that GOOD

I really enjoy buying products where I can't buy them at my local stores. I luv this CD and this purchase experience. It was reliable.

OK, you all tried the solo scene with good to marginal success. It is time to put the bad blood (if there was a lot) behind you all and do a reunion tour. I guarantee you would sell out enough venues to make it worth while. Hell maybe you all could do some new music if the tour works out. After all, A*TEENS could stand for After Teens. This album takes the best of the 3 albums and adds the pop ballad "I Promised Myself" which shows off Dhani's vocal talent very well. The rest of the songs are tried and true A*TEENS that we all know and love and, in my case, miss. I love looking at videos on You Tube. It brings back a ton of great memories for me.

The greatest hits album is the A*Teens last album that was made. When I listened to it, I was really happy with what I heard! I was actually a big fan about seven years ago, but never heard from them for awhile. I thought they took a brake for a couple of years, but I learned that they all slpit up. As sad as I was, this was when I had to get the album. I just got this album a month ago and I'm really happy with it! I think I'm even a bigger fan then I was. I keep going back and listening to the songs. It's a great feeling and if your a fan you gotta get this yourself!

It has the good songs I wanted to hear in a greatest hits, some I never heard before and just lack of a couple of favourites Ive heard from ATenns before, but I'm glad I bought it because its a good album, can't say Im crazy about everything there's inside and that's why I rated it 4 stars but if you're into pop and catchy songs' mood then you should probably get it.

1. Mamma Mia 5/5 awesome! stayed number one for many months, First #1 hit
2. Upside Down 4/5 It gets a little annoying at times, but it wasd there 1st #1 hit that was not a cover of ABBA
3. Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) 5/5 DAMN!! Great vocals
4. Floorfiller 5/5 It is hard not to love this song
5. Dancing Queen 5/5 it is awesome, but overly-played
6. Perfect Match 10/5 Great song, but the pierre versionhas a little more rock in it, and would have been better
7. ... to the Music 4/5 it is okay
8. Halfway Around the World 5/5 One of the songs that you just have to get up and dance
9. Sugar Rush 5/5 good song.... great lyrics.... but the song is a bit annoying at times
10. Super Trouper 5/5 OMG!! One of their best covers
11. Heartbreak Lullaby 10/5 you HAVE to love this song.... though the pop version would have been better instead of the ballad version
12. Can't Help Falling in Love 5/5 WOW! great elvis cover
13. Let Your Heart Do All the Talking 5/5 A little mellow ; the guys should have more singing parts
14. Final Cut 4/5 just good; not great but good..... the whole r/b beginning was a wreck, but overall good song
15. With or Without You 3/5 not a fan of it, but i hear this song when i'm moody
16. I Promised Myself 10/5 A must love!!! their best cover ever!!!! You're crazy if you don't like ths song

This album has some truly standout songs, but is overall mediocre. The band overuses the overdrive effect on the vocals throughout the album, and the production is repetitive and often jarring. I like this band, and tracks like "333," "False Profits," and "Noi Boi" are awesome. But the rest I could do without.

A very deserving 5 stars. If you are a fan of the velvet teen then you will love this cd even though the style is much different from previous work. The CD is jumbled, yet together. It may be my favorite work by the velvet teen to date. And I loooove their old stuff!!! Pick this up, you won't be disappointed!!

About a month ago, after this album had been released for a while I attended a concert featuring the velvet teen. Spellbound by the genius and complexity of the music, i was having a hard time believing a mere trio could possible reproduce what was on the cd in a live concert. I was dead wrong. Then energy of the concert was like being in an outer-space arena of intense euphoric stimulus. The songs were perfectly reproduced and all the amazing genius of the bandmembers unfolded in my brain as i observed the best concert of my life. This mish mash of guitar, keyboard, programming and machine gun drumming comes together in perfect harmony like thick poetry. The music struck me like white light, and i think i even cried. All i have to say, the same thing i told the band when i ran into them after the show in the back-alley of the venue, I hope then never stop the music!!!

That's about all I have to say about this. Great album. Don't see a relation to the Postal Service here, not glitchy or solely electronic. I actually didn't have high expectations for this because I wasn't too into Elysium, but I was happily surprised. Will keep this in rotation. If turned off by the GyzmKid EP, don't let that shy you away from this.

Nothing says "emo" like the sound of a high pitched croon, and Nagler's impassioned cries of anti-authoritarianism, skepticism, longing, and newfound love are no exception to the rule on The Velvet Teen's latest effort, "Cum Laude." The pun is appropriate and far from lost on those who listen closely to a record that really defies the rules.

The band undoubtedly "comes loud" this time out--a definite change in pace and practice from their two previous, perhaps more focused albums. With the welcome return of guitars and the replacement of piano with synthesizer, the band's style of Baroque pop-rock is exchanged for something more akin to the strum and drum-based sound of indie-rock with new wave sensibilities.

Casey Dietz's frenetic chop-work undergirds an album that is, as its name suggests, unruly yet honorable. Nagler's incoherent vocals amplified and made ironically more muffled by the use of a megaphone are layered on top of the seemingly cacaphonous ring of keyboards and space-age beeps and blips on various tracks (eg. album opener, "333"). Yet, as initially disjointed as the record sounds, the elements cancel each other out and blend into something that feels complete and ultimately well-balanced.

Occasionally cryptic lyrics cast a dark shadow upon the album despite the uplift felt from songs such as the straightforward and anthemic, "Spin the Wink." The song titles do little to decode the confusing and that may be intended on Nagler's part.

Regardless, I have found myself singing along happily to songs like the goose-bump worthy album closer, "Gyzmkid," in which the serious sounds just plain goofy: "if my mother had stayed away from my father/would she have been more happy/if they both had stayed in the ring/would they clown now/or find crowds less clappy." Follow that refrain with the chorus, "yeah, i try my best, but when i can't and i'm away, know you've all my love/in this sea turtle moment/to have and to hold/as our bodies burden/this retarded chorus." At least he can admit to the, shall we say, "awkardness" of the lyrical content.

But "awkward" is a fitting word for a venture into sonic territory that melds various landscapes into a composite whole--a picture that will make you question, but learn by doing so and ultimately make sense of the seemingly non-sensical. And just when you think you have the piece figured out, Nagler puts the question to you slyly, "when you've finally laid your claim/do you find that you just search all the more?"

"Cume Laude" is an album that does well to challenge its listeners and all Velvet Teen fans to readjust any previous claims they have made about a band that is too expiramental to pidgeon-hole into a specific genre.

My hope is that a year from now, "Cum Laude" will not sound suddenly forced or pretentious to a fan who is willing to accept change. If the "Radiapathy"-remniscient rocker, "Steadman Spray" is any indication of the band's philosophy (as I'm sure it is), I have nothing to worry about.

As far as I'm presently concerned, the effort is honest without sounding trite, and tinged with just enough irony to keep things interesting and forward-moving. To put it simply: it rocks and rolls.

the bonus track is a wonderful song sang by marie serneholt and sara lumholdt called "don't even know your name".

i think this cd has a lot of variety but corny cheesy beats that you just can't help but sing and dance to. i loves it.

The teens' second album. This time they're singung their own songs. Only one song i know they remake and that is Sugar rush original by Dream Street. I think A-Teens do a much better job at singing it than DS.

this is one of the best CDS ever!
Halfway 'round the world
Suger Rush
Upside down bouncing off the ceiling
Those 3 are my ultimate favs!!
You have got to buy this CD if you love to dance!

I can't pick a favorite song on it! A must buy!

The A*TEENS sophomore CD is definitely my favorite out of all the albums they have released. I love almost all of the songs on here.

My favorite tracks:
* Bouncing off the Ceiling will keep you bouncing because of the great beat.

* Halfway Around the World is my overall favorite with its head-bopping beat.

* Sugar Rush is a song with a nice beat and lyrics.

Everyone's familiar with loving a band and eventually hating their "new album." Imperial Teen is a band that just doesn't follow that rule.

Don't get me wrong, Seasick was their best album. But The Hair, the TV, the Baby, & the Band has everything you loved about the old albums, along with just enough musical progression to make this 4th LP more mature than the 3rd one.

The songs in The Hair feel a little more aged and subdued, but they retain that burnt-out vibe Imperial Teen has always offered. The band is getting on in their years, and the topics they sing about are along those lines. Please understand, when I say the album is a little subdued, I only mean a little. There's still plenty of fun and energetic songs that keep the old band spirit.

Quintessential Indie-Pop at its finest. Thankfully, these wonderful musicians have returned to form, Imperial Teen are one of those bands whose releases you can buy without even listening to, others of this ilk would be Spoon, Sloan, New Porno's, you get the pix. Anyway, the release like their 3 previous, is littered with catchy as hell tuneful paeans, where brevity reigns supreme and the hooks are a plenty. The two gals in the band have much air time, which is a real good thing. I firmly beleive that the best Rock music is that moment when you are hear a song for the 1st time and instantly identifies itself as a classic as like you absolutley heard this one before (check the first song), derivative? Yes, monotonous, hell no!
All four releases - essential.

Punk did a lot of great things for popular music, and maybe one thing not so great: its cynical-when-not-bitter perspective on just about everything (except itself) made wit in rock about as fashionable as love beads. (The Ramones are the great exception, but their humor bascially came down to high-concept adolescent irony. That's no slam: they're possibly my favorite band.) Ever since, rock bands have found themselves either striving for humorless "cred" or settling for lesser status as "pop" acts.

Imperial Teen falls squarely (so to speak) into the latter group. As much as any indie-rock act I can think of, they've taken the pop notion and run with it. But their debt to punk comes through in the disconnect between their big, shiny, filigreed sound (think, Wall of Sound meets the Archies) and their wry acknowledgement of life's pratfalls. "The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band" is possibly their most sheerly charming release yet. The title cut sets the scene of a group of grownups balancing real life with the pop life, and several other cuts echo the theme to some degree. That contrast gives some heft to the ear candy, but you don't have to catch it to enjoy the instantly hummable melodies and almost eerily airy vocals.

Musically, the new disc lacks some of the oomph of its predecessor, "On" (2002), which is probably their best. But "The Hair..." is a ridiculously seductive slice of postpunk pop from a band that, whether fashionable or not, deserves a much larger fan base.

Imperial Teen takes its time making deceptively chipper music. The lyrics, however, often provide the sour tang under the sweet surface. I was intrigued when the New Yorker described its first LP, Seasick, as "queasy pop," and despite the fact this is probably some of the sunniest music on my often gloomy shelf, the mature lyrics, intelligent themes, and sophisticated wit all burnish this collection, their fourth studio record. It goes by, as most of their albums, quickly, starting off in a Spector-ish flourish, but ending with a downbeat, melancholy tune that takes them off stage gently.

The music lacks the experimental edge that I liked on their second album, What Is Not to Love, and generally melds the straight-ahead but lower-key energy of the Seasick with the polish of their third LP, On. But, overall, it's slower, lower in volume, and more subdued. I'd start, if you are new to the band, with On and then Seasick. This new LP matches these in style, but again, seems less jittery and less brazen.

The accessible, warm, affectionately old-school production, by Steve McDonald (Redd Kross) and Anna Waronker (that.dog) along with the band, heightens the band's guitar-bass-drums set-up, but Roddy's keyboards appear much less prominent than before. I found this not quite a disappointment, but I feel that the band's better served by the higher intensity tunes that allow it to stretch out rather than compress its take on indie pop rooted in 60s styles without aping the feel of the pre-psych, vaguely NYC-street styles that they blend into a more new-wave meets singer-songwriter approach. A song like "Sweet Potato" shows this off best, with lines like "She has a backstage pass but doesn't want to meet the band" and "the carpool lane's open but she's taking the bus" capturing a gal of easy virtue cleverly. Somewhere in our media empire this deserves to be a hit.

Will, singer on most tracks, has improved and has lost his Jersey whine that often marred earlier turns at the mike. Lynn's drums keep a punch with Jone's bass, and the tunes at their best, as in "Room with a View," sound instantly familiar. Glad to see the band's back after five years off; I'd feared they'd disbanded! One song, "Do It Better," sounds to me like I have heard it before on an earlier IT record! It's testimony to the band's talent that they can freshen up pop-rock, at this late stage in the genre, that recalls their influences without imitating them.

This is their best album since Seasick, in my opinion. Maybe this one's even better. A fabulous album, rocking sonic guitars, Teentastic lyrics. Don't miss this one!!!

A Teens "Pop 'Till You Drop" is one of my favorite CDs. Here's a breif review for each song:

1.Floorfiller (10/10 One of the coolest songs on the CD ,it's really upbeat and it sounds kinda Euro-Popish)

2. Can't help falling in love (10/10 It's a really catchy remix of Elvis Presley's original version)

3.LET YOUR HEART DO ALL THE TALKING(7/10 It was a cool song )

4. CLOSER TO PERFECTION(5/10 I really didn't like, it's sorta 80's or something)

5.HI AND GOODBYE( 8/10 A nice mellow song, I love the lyrics!)

6. THIS YEAR(5/10 It was sort of strange and their voices sound really squeaky)

7. SLAM (8/10 It's so cool, I love this song!!)

8. Cross my heart( 10/10 My favorite song on the whole CD, it sounds like a jungle/amazonian type song, it is very well done)

9. Singled Out(4/10 Yikes!)

10. Oh Oh yeah! (8/10 Cool beat)

11.In the blink of an eye(7/10( pretty good)

12.School's Out (9/10 Way cooler than the real version!)

When the A-Teens first came out with their debut album, many wondered if they would be able to do it a second time around or if they were just ABBA Clones. Their second album was excellent, if not their best album to date. With the A-Teens third album released in the U.S., the A-Teens are again diversing their music and maturing more and more.

1. "Floorfiller" - Nice way to start off the album. Really fun and catchy. Has a little ABBA-esque vibe to it which makes it one of my favorites to listen to. (10/10)
2. "Can't Help Falling In Love" - First heard it in the movie Lilo and Stitch and I fell in love with it myself! Granted they are known for their covers, this is a complete 180 of Elvis' ballad. Upbeat and fun! (10/10)
3. "Let Your Heart Do All The Talking" - I will give it credit for an interesting as hell title, but the reggae beats fall a little flat for me. Not one of my favorites. (7/10)
4. "Closer to Perfection" - Yes they are! This song is fantastic! It is ironic that it has a dark ABBA-esque beat to it, yet it has a positive message about moving on from a relationship. Another favorite of mine! (11/10)
5. "Hi and Goodbye" - The first of three slower songs on the album and it is a treat to the ears. It starts off slow, but then it picks up momentum during the chorus. Vocals are great too. (10/10)
6. "This Year" - Not one of their best. The song is short and the vocals are very irritating. Still, a nice cover to say the least. (6/10)
7. "Slam" - They try to recover after 'This Year' with an upbeat dance number written by Sara and Dhani, but I am just not feeling this one either. The chorus gets a little repetitive at times. Not a favorite. (7/10)
8. "Cross My Heart" - Leave it to Marie to write an excellent song! This latin/jungle kinda beat song is so different from the usual pop numbers, you can't help wanting to listening to it! Should have been a single! (10/10)
9. "Singled Out" - Dhani co-wrote this song and it is good as well. The boys try to go out of their pitch range during the bridge of the song, but it is still good nonetheless. (9/10)
10. "Oh...Oh Yeah" - A guilty pleasure of mine. Thought the lyrics make no sense whatsoever, I can't stop listening to it. The rock beat and the chorus are just way too infectious! (10/10)
11. "In The Blink of An Eye" - An acoustic ballad written by Marie! Their vocals have never sounded better on this song! Simply stunning! I bet it sounds even better peformed live! (10/10)
12. "School's Out" - Most people don't like this song, but it is not that bad. The vocals sound so dark and mysterious during the chorus. But yet again, some songs shouldn't be dug up from their grave. (8/10)

Overall, the A-Teens can only improve with time. Of course, sometimes overstepping it like on this album can lead to some drawbacks. Teen Spirit is definately their best album to date!

While its not their best, it's worth it to buy. My favorite song on it is, Floorfiller.

This is a good follow up album to Teen Spirit, although it's definitely not their best. This album was made for release Stateside. My favourite track on this one is Closer to Perfection. It's a good album to have if you're a die-hard A*TEENS fan, but if you're looking for a better album, get the NEW ARRIVAL album, which contains some of the songs offered on this album plus a few more.

THiS CD iS GREAT!!! THE BEST POP MUSiC YOU WiLL EVER HEAR. tHE VOiCES BLEND TOGETHER NiCELY WiTH THE RYTHYM, AND THE LYRiCS ARE TO FALL FOR. GET IT OR ELSE!

Good British Invasion one-hit wonder from the mid-'60's. After hearing all twenty-nine of these cuts I am sort of amazed this band had just one hit. Certainly several 'could-have' and 'should-have-been-a-hit' tunes are on this import reissue CD. Tunes like their sole smash "Tobacco Road", "Mona", Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man", the foot-stomping "Google Eyes", Richie Valen's "La Bamba", the boogie piece "TNT", the blues standard "I'm Coming Home" and "That's My Woman" are all worthy of your full support. Looks like you get the original lp's 15 tracks + 14 bonus cuts. Very nice.

Musically they were easily the equals of contemporaries such as the Animals and Manfred Mann, but despite the massive success of their version of John D Loudermilk's Tobacco Road (in turn inspired by the Erskine Caldwell novel), they never seemed to excite the star-making machine in the same way, and are now remembered almost entirely for that one hit, despite the success of its follow-up Google Eye and other Top 40 hits. They were the band of choice to play behind visiting rock and rollers such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, but perhaps the Mods and Rockers wars placed them too firmly in the Rockers camp at a time when Mods may have had the greater buying power and influence.
An appearance in bizarre teen movie Gonks Go Beat failed to enhance their charisma quotient either, and their name, a tribute to the music capital of the world, falsely labelled them in the minds of the teenage market as saccharine country wannabes, not helped by the fact that the band were in no way Teens but in their mid-twenties at the time.
Their showcase album of 1965, Tobacco Road, demonstrated their forceful sound and versatility and featured both sides of all their first three Decca singles (including the storming T.N.T.) as well as Bo Diddley's Mona, Mose Allison's Parchman Farm and Don Gibson's Hurtin' Inside. On Chris Kenner's I Like It Like That they mishear the lyric and repeatedly sing, "Come on, let me show you were I sat", as if giving a guided tour of an old classroom. How Deep Is The Ocean? and La Bamba seem slightly odd choices and may have been learned from a 1963 single by Shel Naylor.
On this admirable Repertoire definitive re-issue a further thirteen tracks from singles, plus their contribution to Gonks Go Beat (Poor Boy), are included. What'cha Gonna Do? was the B-side to This Little Bird, whose non-inclusion is a major omission, it making some headway in the charts until being beaten off by Marianne Faithfull's version of the same John D Loudermilk song. Similarly, Upside Down has been selected in preference to its Top 50 A-side The Hard Way. The Biggest Night Of Her Life shows them tackling a Randy Newman song in a slight change of direction in 1967. Their striking version of All Along The Watchtower probably just pre-dates Jimi Hendrix's 1968 masterpiece and includes a driving guitar phrase borrowed from the Animals (whom Barrie Jenkins from the Teens was shortly to join).
The most recent track, from 1971, is Roy Wood's Ella James (their first single for Parlophone, and the only stereo track on the CD), which the Move also recorded the same year, but the album closes with its B-side, Tennessee Woman, a bit of an oddity as the same recording had crept out the year before on Parlophone as the B-side of The Train Keeps Rolling by the so-called Arizona Swamp Company

This set was given as a gift to fill a hole in my British Invasion collection. I was pleased to add Tobacco Road and Find My Way Back Home to that collection. Both were played on the radio in the sixties and one was a huge hit. I was not familiar with a lot of the other songs. I suppose you would need to be a rabid Teens fan to know them all. Many were likeable tunes and others were not. This set is definately for Nashville Teens diehards. Tobacco Road remains one of the highlights of the British Invasion. Hearing this collection explains why their USA chart life was short.

Nashville Teens grow out of british rock`n'roll in the early sixties and became one of the most underrated of the uk-bands. Only two hits, the hard-hitting version of John De Loudermilk song Tobacco Road and the follow-up Google Eye. the rest made just little of traces. This collection cover most of their Decca recordings plus the late Parlophonesingle Ella James. all of their recordings are hard to come by today. This cd includes the only-us LP and the Decca issued 45's. Here is very broad collection of semi-hard-rock and good 60's pop. Nashville Teens stands up very good still after nearly 40 years after the first recordings were made. The only fault of this cd is that none of the very hard to find out-takes that New World Label issued in the early 70's are included. I also miss the very rare 45 that they did together with Carl Perkins in 1963 I think. But you can't get evrything even if you would like that. The sound-quality is good as always from Reportiare label. Highly recommendely - a must for everyone who's even slightly interested in uk-invasion bands!

This is one of those 1964 Brit. bands from the first wave invasion. Excellent and stunning musicians. This CD is simply a beautiful set and collection of where they were at during this period. I highly recommend this CD. I have it on vinyl from the original 64 release and just recently picked it up on CD. Don't miss this one.

Imperial Teen constitutes that teen-hood than eerily elevates itself above all others. You know the one, the kid dressed in black and leather, mysterious and dark, maybe a 'kill the teacher' t-shirt, selling hard drugs at his school locker, wild stories about drug score journeys to distant places, layers and layers of frightening sexual appetite eying all as you trot off to English class, some talk that he killed one of his relatives. And then you hook up with him, and he's just another weakling screwed-up jerk, and probably gay. And brain sap is drooling out of his ears.

Carry on, wayward imperial teen. Take that crown of thorns and turn it into a masochist's daydream. Graduate, (unlikely, he's never been to gym class), or drop out, and go get some,- "Bow down to me, bow down, yeah, baby, baby", and then spit it out,- "You're not qualified, you're not what I employ", from "Water Boy". Go home again after you taste the freedom of life outside your parent's home,- "I'm not dressed for this climate, someone take me to the mall", from "Blaming The Baby", but that's no good because it's good to hate your parents,- "I crashed the family limosine, I drove to feel the drive, the chauffer's dead my mother said, and you're the only one alive.", from "Luxury", so get out man,- "I left my home and family, they still don't know I'm gone, I'm looking for a family, that listens to my songs." Just don't make them listen to a song called, "Imperial Suicide".

All set to the pop jingle, guitar slashing indie rock a guy like you would suddenly realize is cooler than metal.

Top 50 In SPIN
I actually bought this CD when it first came out and never listened to it. I used to buy music en masse based partly on reviews and partly on gut instinct. A few months ago SPIN Magazine came out with their top 500 CD list. There were two noticable things that occured. Firstly, OK Computer was number one and Dark Side of the Moon was number two. Secondly. Seasick by Imperial Teen was in the top 50. I was floored.


"Hey!" I said to myself. "I own that CD."


Of course giving it a good listen was imperitave. To really give something a good listen you have to drive with it in your car and not skip tracks. Here's what I found out.

• There's not a week track on the album.
  
• The song writing is topnotch
  
• The production is perfect
  
• It deserves a spot in the top 50

The End Is As Good As The Beginning
This is one of those "grows on you albums." I am particularly fond of Luxury, track number 10. The album has that seemless Joshua Tree quality that's easy to enjoy. Just put it on and listen to it from start to finish. There are no fillers. The CD has a nice, alternative, gritty quality and never struck me at all as pop. I highly recommmend Seasick to everyone who enjoys discovering 10 year old music that they should have been turned on to a long time ago.

The debut of "Imperial Teen" was one of my favorite albums on 1996. It's sly and subversive, aggressive and funny, and most importantly, smart. Ranging from a punk blast worthy of The Ramones ("Waterboy") to psychedelic pop ("Balloon"), these four San Franciscans make very gay friendly music. Lyrics like "Kiss me like a man, boy" or "the prince wants to be a queen" (which seemingly was about Kurt Cobain, who was a friend of keyboardist Roddy Bottum) sneak by before you realize exactly what you're singing along to. There's literally nothing to compare this to..which makes me recommend it all the more. Long Live "Imperial Teen!"

While I'm not going to repeat all the comparisons to the various bands with whom Imperial Teen share parts of their sound, I'll freely say that if you have the opportunity to see this band live (they're currently touring with The Breeders), by all means, DO IT.

Within days of seeing them in San Francisco, I'm the proud owner of all three of their albums, and this one, perhaps on the strength of the two-minute punk/pop energy of "Water Boy" alone, is my favorite.

These guys are so damn fun, I dare you to listen and not smile. Or dance, even. Good, good stuff.

this album is sort of like a combination of that dog., the B-52's, sonic youth (dirty), and hole/nirvana...sort of sounds like green day or blink 182 but better and with smarter lyrics.

Hello,I buy cd for all kinds of reasons...This time it was for Jamie Pressly and her SUPER HOT part in the movie Not another teen movie. The cd not to bad either...

Darker than their debut, the four Imperial Teens forge into their second album with the same wit that would make Sparks or the Pixies proud. Still as lyrically subversive as ever ("why you gotta be so proud, I'm the one with lipstick on") and spewing out hooks that make you hate radio for not latching onto the likes of "Yoo Hoo" (or "Seasick's" "You're One"), "What is Not To Love" is clever without being sardonic. If that sounds like a recommendation to you, then by all means, pick this up.

Well, if that isn't an understatement. I found Imperial Teen later than most. I hate the radio. They should be playing this album or Lovesick or Go ... not the other homogenized ... you hear everyday. Sure, there is some good rap, and occasional goot alt rockers. But, most of it sounds the same and is .... These guys should be blasting from the radio. Why not? I would have heard this album sooner. This is great rock, great songs, Poppy yet noisy too. Intelligent but sexual too. Too smart to cave to the demands of corporate radio. A great live act. This CD is a bit catchier and more tuneful than Seasick. Where Seasick was a little noisier and punker this has catchier hooks. The lyrics are great especially that line about doing a congressman. Ok, now I know why programmers can't play this.

This CD doesn't really break any new ground, although it definately has its own sound. Most of the songs are fairly similar sounding, and not really experimental, but its still the kind of CD you can listen to straight through. There's a neat feel of lightness and bouyancy throughout the music that'll probably be the main reason you'll want to stick it in your player.

By the way, the song Yoo Hoo is awesome, probably the best reason to buy this disk. For some strange reason I find it incredibly hilarious and it cracks me up every time I hear it, I usually start laughing even before the singer comes in. Roddy Bottum acts like he's talking on the phone near the end. "Hello, are you there? I know you're there! I can heeeeaaar you..." The song is just cool, plain and simple.

This CD doesn't really break any new ground, although it definately has its own sound. Most of the songs are fairly similar sounding, and not really experimental, but its still the kind of CD you can listen to straight through. There's a neat feel of lightness and bouyancy throughout the music that'll probably be the main reason you'll want to stick it in your player.

By the way, the song Yoo Hoo is awesome, probably the best reason to buy this disk. For some strange reason I find it incredibly hilarious and it cracks me up every time I hear it, I usually start laughing even before the singer comes in. Roddy Bottum acts like he's talking on the phone near the end. "Hello, are you there? I know you're there! I can heeeeaaar you..." The song is just cool, plain and simple.