1996 – Page 73 – Lollipop Magazine

Misery Loves Co. – Happy? – Review

June 1, 1996

Its haunting, Alice In Chains-esque chorus, blended with mournful, distorted diary-reading verses, combine to make a beautifully depressing dirge.

Marlo Thomas and Friends – Free To Be… You And Me – Review

June 1, 1996

Take my hand, come with me, where the children… are subjected to some of the most blatantly subversive children’s songs ever made.

Malevolent Creation – Joe Black – Review

June 1, 1996

What I thought was one of those tide-me-over EPs turns out to be one of the most black-hearted batteries of brutality to assault these ears in some time.

Liquor Bike – “Home Improvement Kit” – Review

June 1, 1996

Side A is a boisterous number that reminds me of the Crumbsuckers. Side B is a bit slower but has a very catchy chorus that’ll leave you humming for days.

Like Swimming – “Swing It Low”- Review

June 1, 1996

“Swing It Low” features sexy, sinewy, hypnotic song-speak by Morphine’s Mark Sandman set to drums and a repetitive one-note groove that is lazily haunting.

Life After Life – “Harrahya” / “Doors” – Review

June 1, 1996

Life After Life, with “Harrahya/Doors,” play jackhammer punk that’s better than most of the early 80’s stuff we’re always frothing at the mouth about.

Kostars – Klassics with a K – Review

June 1, 1996

Full of back porch-sittin’, pink lemonade-guzzlin’, fly-swattin’, horse-trottin’, acoustic country ballads with trip-hop noises to remind us it’s the ’90s.

Juicy – Olive Juicy – Review

June 1, 1996

The first song was about plywood, though, I think. And then there was one where the singer kept on repeating “My bike will go anywhere.

Judge Nothing – Aug Mouth – Review

June 1, 1996

Not one of Thick’s now-famous picture discs. “Your Smell” has a catchy beat, but is more lo-fi than the production of Descendents and ALL.

Johnny Thunders – Have Faith – Review

June 1, 1996

Before Joey Ramone, and even Johnny Rotten, there was Johnny Thunders. This recording captures some of his best live work.