December 1995 – Page 6 – Lollipop Magazine

Warzone – Cause For Alarm/ Warzone – Review

December 1, 1995

Within seconds, you know you’re dealing with old school NYHC.

God – Appeal to Human Greed – Review

December 1, 1995

Imagine if Rage Against the Machine decided to jump on the “extended dance remix” bandwagon and it actually sounded good.

Gem – Hexed – Review

December 1, 1995

Gem are the all-star game of Ohio indie rock, with members of Cobra Verde, Prisonshake, and Death of Samantha. Hexed shines more often than not.

Gathering Ground – Figure it Out – Review

December 1, 1995

This is beautiful. A four-song EP from a Buffalo, NY band that whups the Goo Goo Dorks’ asses all over the powerpop place.

Garden Variety – Knocking the Skill Level – Review

December 1, 1995

The guitars make a collage of painterly abstract art, and the drums are an eraser following close behind, smudging everything into new and less coherent forms.

White Cross – Deaf Dumb and Blind – Review

December 1, 1995

41 tracks of old-time hardcore: Grinding guitar riffs, drums and bass struggling to keep the rhythm going, and a singer growling out paeans of negativity.

Friends of Dean Martinez – The Shadow of Your Smile – Review

December 1, 1995

Friends of Dean Martinez do instrumentals where you can almost hear the sagebrush rolling past the saloon just before s barfight breaks out.

Fatso Jetson – Sticky Little Gods – Review

December 1, 1995

I expected Satan surf punk. This is way crisper and sunfried. Desert rock, bad-ass rockabilly, or surfbilly-with-twisted-humor on a swaggering drunk binge?

Exit 13 – Just a Few More Hits – Review

December 1, 1995

A self-reviewing CD. On “Constant Persistence of Annoyance,” my feelings are echoed beautifully in the opening soundbite. “I’m impatient with stupidity.”

Wicker Man – Review

December 1, 1995

If Henry Rollins sang for White Zombie, and they were less industrial, it would sound like this.