Lollipop Magazine

Spawn of Skarmageddon – Review

February 1, 1996

A pleasant surprise to both the ska newcomer and the diehard fan. It proves that ska is able to bend and stretch to include other influences.

My Snot – Fiction

February 1, 1996

He was violent (check), stupid (check), prone to fits of melancholy (check), hopelessly depraved (check), sexually frustrated (check), and shallow (check).

Psychic TV – Trip Reset – Review

February 1, 1996

Slightly more gentle than what I’m used to with Genesis P-Orridge, with the exception of “Mother Jack (A Children’s Story)”. Trip Reset will straighten you out.

So You Wanna Be A Rock n’ Roll Compilation – Review

February 1, 1996

There are no punk pin-up boys to be found. Mostly older guys whose youthful vim was thrashed out of them more than a decade ago.

Pop Defect – Drinking Poison, Handling Serpents, Speaking In Tongues: Live In Big Bear – Review

February 1, 1996

Like a cold war film, Pop Defect line their messages with dangerous alleyways, and agent No. 54637, while the Baron Von Cranhiemer prepares to crush the world.

Secret Agent S.O.U.N.D.S. – Review

February 1, 1996

Secret Agent S.O.U.N.D.S. is a compilation of 13 surf bands doing all the hits of cloak and dagger. One of my favorite surf discs to come around in a long time.

P – Review

February 1, 1996

Any project that involves a partnership between Johnny Depp and Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes is bound to be weird, and, on that level, P doesn’t disappoint.

Nightfall – Athenian Echoes – Review

February 1, 1996

Sometimes they’re dizzyingly fast and use violins for extra percussion, at other times grinding and Gothic with eerie traditional Greek instrumentals mixed in.

Punk Rock Jukebox – Records

February 1, 1996

Twenty-three bands contribute one cover tune each of punk rock oldies that inspired them to creativity, or pure imitation, as the case may be.

Nick Lowe – Party of One – Review

February 1, 1996

This is the Nick Lowe country album. He does it better than most of the country crooners today; and he did it long before anyone ever heard of Garth Brooks.