Lollipop Magazine

Lake of Dracula – Review

October 1, 1997

This is what the new Lake of Dracula record brings to mind every time I listen to it. I’m not exactly sure why.

Killing Culture – Review

October 1, 1997

Fear Factory meets Pro-Pain in this thundering slab of heavy duty/doodie thrash. Produced by Anthrax’s showboy, Scott Ian.

W.A.S.P. – K.F.D. – Review

October 1, 1997

K.F.D. doesn’t summarize the jean jacket experience, but W.A.S.P. now rolls toms, giving shock metal a bit of that tribal feel these crazy kids dig.

Vaporhead – Review

October 1, 1997

The band has been playing their snotty, sometimes witty, whining, traditional three-chord stylings around New York City for almost two years.

Kenickie – At the Club – Review

October 1, 1997

They sing the word “yeah” 72 freakin’ times in layered harmonies of bratty “nyah-nyah” sing-song. Teen anthems of scathing criticism, tongue-in-cheek fuck-alls.

We Will Fall : The Iggy Pop Tribute – Review

October 1, 1997

You should know how great most of these songs are by now, as simple and unimprovable as old blues tunes and therefore pretty hard to fuck up.

Jimmie’s Chicken Shack – Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope – Review

October 1, 1997

Jimmie’s bears more than a passing resemblance to Primus – musicianly metal propelled by beefy, funkified bass and witty lyrics.

Random – Review

October 1, 1997

A two-CD, 26-artist tribute to the Original Replicant just in time for the new millennium he monotoned about in “We Are Glass.” His songs hold up.

Jeremy Toback – Perfect Flux Thing – Review

October 1, 1997

Some kind of twisted Hootie/Dave Mathews Band/folk rock fantasy blown up into this huge, pathetic, unlistenable, blithering Robert Blye nightmare.

Japanese Torture Comedy Hour – Japanese Torture Comedy Hour / Autoerotichrist split – Review

October 1, 1997

Replace your stylus with a dental drill and put on a Nurse With Wound drone-disc and you’ll get a similar effect.