1996 – Page 99 – Lollipop Magazine

The Wipers – The Herd – Review

April 1, 1996

Big riffs and spicy leads. It has a bass you can feel through the floor, and drums that, if they were human, would sport lots of tattoos on their beefy arms.

Misanthrope – Theatre Bizarre – Review

April 1, 1996

Moods range from psychotic carnival metal, to Faustian, Skyclad/Sabbat-like musical skits, to Dream Theater-esque progressive otherworldliness.

The Threat – Sacred Ground – Review

April 1, 1996

Eleven plodding, over-reaching, out-dated songs like the ones I used to skip over on the first two Metal Church albums.

Ministry – Filth Pig – Review

April 1, 1996

Ploddingly minimalistic repetition of simple phrases and music that was recorded live instead of taking the time and energy to meticulously craft each song.

The Smugglers – Selling The Sizzle – Review

April 1, 1996

The Smugglers are always good for skipping-school-for-the-beach. There’s nothing better than surf, sun, sand, and drinking and shimmying to punkers in suits.

Melt Banana – It’s In The Pillcase – Review

April 1, 1996

Nails on a chalkboard can’t hold a candle to Melt Banana. Squeaky schizoid abrasiveness was never so much fun.

The Queers – A Day Late and a Dollar Short – Review

April 1, 1996

As great as Love Songs For the Retarded was, it was the earlier output from The Queers that got you pumped up to be as useless a moron as you could be.

A Few of my Favorite Things – Music for the Collapse of Civilization – Column

April 1, 1996

Last Exit: The four best musicians in NYC (Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Jackson, and Peter Brötzmann), on stage, completely improvised.

L.U.N.G.S. – A Better Class of Losers – Review

April 1, 1996

A Better Class of Losers is a multi-cultural debut combining the elements of hardcore, punk, metal, rap, and hip hop, and spitting it out with raging venom.

The Meanies – 10% Weird – Review

April 1, 1996

The Meanies may be 10% Weird, but they’re 90% pile-driving punk.