1997 – Page 25 – Lollipop Magazine

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.

The Minus 5 – The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy – Review

October 1, 1997

Compared to the Mark Eitzel solo disc most of these guys contributed to, this is positively bubbly, but so’s hemlock if you spike it with Schweppes.

Exodus – Another Lesson in Violence – Review

October 1, 1997

Recorded live at the Trocadero in San Francisco, Exodus returns from the depths of hell (or at least the bargain bin) fronted by original madman Paul Baloff.

The Kelley Deal 6000 – Boom Boom Boom – Review

October 1, 1997

The Kelley Deal 6000 lays no claims to The Breeders. It is Kelley’s own act, on Kelley’s own label (Nice Records), with Kelley’s own songs.

The Gremmies – The Boss Now Sound of… – Review

October 1, 1997

Fur waxed-up wave-ridin’ trem ‘n’ twang instros flippin’ the surfin’ bird to anyone L7 enough to Venture outside the clambake/drive-in/shindig axis.