My Top 1000 Songs #696: Lipstick

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.] 

Too cute to go with back-to-back modern bubblegum indie tracks called "Lipstick"? Abso-friggin'-lutely. But it's getting late in the game and I'm going with it.

San Francisco indie act Imperial Teen--a "supergroup" of sorts with members of various other Bay Area bands, including the probably better-known hard rockers Faith No More--had a few albums of quirky indie music in the late 90s and early 00s, with a few intermittent later releases up through 2019. But I enjoy them more for the handful of mixtape-ready pop songs scattered throughout. "Lipstick," off 1999's sophomore LP What Is Not Love, is particularly catchy, a driving groove with a killer earworm chorus. By the time the aah-aahs kick in after the final verse, you should be hooked.

Live 2002: