Lollipop Magazine

Lollipop – Sucked In, Blown Out – Review

December 1, 1997

On the world-renowned Amphetamine Reptile label, there’s a demented, hellbent-for-pleather garage-punk quartet, and their name happens to be the same as ours.

Letters to Cleo – Go! – Review

December 1, 1997

Although Go! does not quite capture the original vitality and rawness of the band’s sound, what it does is give us some incredibly sweet, catchy pop songs.

Lambchop – Thriller – Review

December 1, 1997

Thriller removes the assembly-line slickness and cloying corn that have worn this most American of musics down to a palatable gruel. Modest, sincere, poetic.

Laika – Sounds of the Satellites – Review

December 1, 1997

The music is highly unoriginal laid-back dance grooves (leaning too much towards Portishead territory) and the lyrics have no real punch either.

Kreator – Outcast – Review

December 1, 1997

A few of the songs have a cool groove, but the distorted chorus is a little too “Fuckin’ Hostile,” and the cheeseball delay on the vocals is so old, it stinks.

Keoki – Ego-Trip – Review

December 1, 1997

Running the line between self-indulgence and one hell of a party, Ego-Trip is an appropriate name.

Jonathan Fire*Eater – Wolf Songs for Lambs – Review

December 1, 1997

A full-on adolescent-cinematic sound that enthralls and seduces while it plays but falls apart completely once analyzed. Not, in and of itself, a bad thing.

Guitar Wolf – Planet of the Wolves – Review

December 1, 1997

Nipponese practitioners who learned at the feet of Link Wray, the Stooges, and the Ramones the same way the Stones worshiped at the feet of Muddy and Wolf.

Groovie Ghoulies – Re-Animation Festival – Review

December 1, 1997

Keeping the Ramonesian simplicity mixed with Misfitting graveyard kitsch, this is just an amazing sounding record. Simple, sweet, huge, and loud.

Grave – Extremely Rotten Live – Review

December 1, 1997

Extremely Rotten Live uncovers ground from all their studio albums, includes a demo track, and, basically, is the first live album Grave has ever done.