Lollipop Magazine

Full House Spring ’96 Sampler – Review

December 1, 1994

From sweet, light pop to dirty garage grrrl punk, Full House Spring ’96 Sampler shatters the girlypop stereotype.

Adam & the Ants – B-side Babies – Review

December 1, 1994

A 16-song collection that features domestic B-sides, seven British B-sides, and one entirely unreleased track. This is a killer collection

The Black Box: The First 13 Years – Review

December 1, 1994

Three CDs, 41 songs, and a 76 page, fully-illustrated booklet. Many of the tracks are outtakes or remixes found only on 12″ or 7″ single collections.

Hotel Massachusetts – Review

December 1, 1994

From the Western Mass-based Chunk Records. It has twenty-two tracks (plus an intro) of indie rock from some great local bands.

Velo-Deluxe – Superelastic – Review

December 1, 1994

Clever, crafted, crystalline and crunchy in milk, these songs speak volumes, one story at a time. The best pop album heard around this office in a long time.

Tree – Plant a Tree or Die – Review

December 1, 1994

Plant a Tree or Die may only be thirty (or thirty-three) minutes long, but blasts for every second, so you barely notice how brief it is.

Toxic Reasons – Independence – Review

December 1, 1994

Independence from Toxic Reason possesses enough energy to give Johnny Lydon a coronary; they define rebellion.

The Fatima Mansions – Lost in the Former West – Review

December 1, 1994

While The Fatima Mansions have their moments of power and innovation, their musical style resembles Roxy Music more than a band looking to stir things up.

Lick – Barbed and Rusty For Your Pleasure – Review

December 1, 1994

Noisy, gross sounding guitars and muddy, humorous and/or senseless vocals. It’s so ugly, it’s kinda nice.

The Ex-Idols – Social Kill – Review

December 1, 1994

They have the three-chord obnoxiousness, originality and punk-soul needed to go up against the new big guns like Green Day and The Offspring.