Imperial Teen: San Francisco's Boy-Girl Indie Pop Band and "Million $ Man"

Photo: Palnu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperialteen.jpg

Imperial Teen are a San Francisco indie pop band: Roddy Bottum (of Faith No More), Will Schwartz, Lynn Truell and Jone Stebbins. U-Rock® has logged 1,771 plays of "Million Dollar Man," listed on the album as "Million $ Man."

Swapping instruments

According to Wikipedia, the band became known for their boy-girl harmonies and for all four members switching instruments during shows. Their 1996 debut, Seasick, produced by Steve McDonald of Redd Kross, was ranked by Spin as the fourth-best album of the year. Its single "You're One" got heavy play on alternative radio. They had started out as Star 69, but changed the name after a New York band threatened to sue.

On

"Million $ Man" is the fourth track on On, the band's third album, released by Merge Records on 9 April 2002. In 2009, Amazon.com named On the 43rd greatest indie rock album of all time. The photo here comes from Wikimedia Commons.

Why it matters on U-Rock®

Imperial Teen are known for boy-girl harmonies and swapping instruments onstage. "Million $ Man" is from their Merge album On.

U-Rock® play data: 1,771 plays logged across the BROADCAST and CORE histories (2026-07-02 to 2026-10-12), using the higher of the two logs.

Sources 1. Wikipedia, "Imperial Teen" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Teen 2. Wikipedia, "On (Imperial Teen album)" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_(Imperial_Teen_album) 3. Wikimedia Commons, "Imperialteen (Palnu)" — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperialteen.jpg 4. U-Rock® BROADCAST (AzuraCast) and CORE (airplay_spins) play logs