PWEI - Pop Will Eat Itself - The Looks Or The Lifestyle - 1992 - Vinyl LP
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Pop Will Eat Itself - "The Looks or the Lifestyle" (1992)
1992 RCA / BMG / Chapter 22 First European Pressing : Manufactured in Holland (Long Out Of Print) Vinyl : VG (VG/VG+ : some light visible marks but nothing that interferes with play - as pictured). Sleeve : VG+ (Cover in great shape and inner intact as pictured)
Nice copy of PWEI's first album with live drummer Fuzz Townsend (Car SOS) and last album for the major label RCA before moving back to an indie shortly thereafter. The more difficult to locate of the RCA era albums on vinyl due to the year of release but popular too as it marks the album where the collision with post-rave era dance music was set at odds with their tendencies to rock as a live band. Interesting and underrated coming off here somewhere between KLF and Nine Inch Nails.
Cover and inner in good shape. LP is leaning towards VG+ to play but VG visually (I'm being critical to be fair).
SIDE 1
England’s Finest 0:46 Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me, Kill Me 2:59 Mother 4:13 Get The Girl! Kill The Baddies!5:08 I’ve Always Been A Coward, Baby3:24 Token Drug Song4:02 Karmadrome 4:21
SIDE 2
Urban Futuristic (Son Of South Central)4:43 Pretty Pretty 4:07 I Was A Teenage Grandad4:01 Harry Dean Stanton 5:12 Bulletproof! 3:14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE3w9lzLeeE
Allmusic.com : The Looks or the Lifestyle Review by Josh Landau
https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-looks-or-the-lifestyle-mw0000088717
Certainly not their best effort, The Looks or the Lifestyle saw RCA pressuring the band to move in a more commercial direction. The Poppies ignored the pressure and moved in a less commercial direction. Displaying an interest in a dancier style that had started to become evident on the previous album, elements of the harsher attack that would characterize Dos Dedos Mis Amigos were apparent in such songs as "Urban Futuristic" and "Eat Me, Drink Me, Love Me, Kill Me." Samples come from diverse influences, including Akira, INXS, and Perry Farrell; this album represents a sort of midway point between PWEI's two landmark albums. Another marker on the album is the addition of live drummer Fuzz Townshend, replacing the band's temperamental drum machine, Dr. Nightmare. After the album's release, RCA dumped PWEI. Ironically enough, "Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies" -- the post-dumping single from the album -- reached number nine on the U.K. charts, the band's highest position to that day.
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