Lollipop Magazine

Mash It Up 4 – Review

October 1, 1997

Joining some of Beantown’s old favorites, like Bim Skala Bim and Skavoovie, are some great new acts, like S.M.A. and Big D and the Kids Table.

Hot Damn! – “Beaver Shot” – Review

October 1, 1997

The Damn-sels cover The Periscopes’ “Beaver Shot” and The Genteels’ “Take It Off!.” Mostly instrumental. If you know the titles, you know the words.

KAOS Theory – Review

October 1, 1997

Like a good public radio station, everything might not go down nice and easy, but any fan of indie music is bound to find something of value here.

Hi-Standard – Angry Fist – Review

October 1, 1997

Angry Fist is as non-stop punch-packing as its title suggests. As quick-tempoed, melodic, and well-produced as we’ve come to expect from Fat Wreck Chords.

Future: A Journey Through the Electronic Underground – Review

October 1, 1997

With The Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Brian Eno, and Jah Wobble, I don’t know how “underground” this is, but Agent Scully has a good ear.

Godflesh – Love & Hate in Dub – Review

October 1, 1997

Godflesh deconstruct the songs, crank up the gut-wrenching bass, and lead us through a nightmarish steel factory of clanking, rage, and mechanized motions.

The Tunnel Rats – Our War is Never Over – Review

October 1, 1997

26 songs (9 covers and a “bonus track” called “I Ate Joe King’s Breakfast”), many of which were released on 7″ with cool-ass pictures of guns and strippers.

Future Bible Heroes – Memories of Love – Review

October 1, 1997

Future Bible Heroes take their cues straight from the percolator-pop peccadilloes of the no-guitar crowd on Memories of Love.

The Neckbones – Souls on Fire – Review

October 1, 1997

Not an elderly Mississippi bluesman with a bottomless reservoir of righteous anger. Instead, we get four deadend kids who dig drinkin’, drivin’, and gamblin’.

Flip-Side – This That and the Other Thing – Review

October 1, 1997

Drinking Yoo-Hoo, because “it’s chocolatey,” is given as an alternative to depression or drugs, as are hiking and listening to Beatles records.