1997 – Page 65 – Lollipop Magazine

Staind – Tormented – Review

June 1, 1997

When Aaron Lewis isn’t crooning, croaking, and moaning mournfully about how really shitty the world is and how much he doesn’t like it, he’s screaming.

Spooky Ruben – Wendy McDonald Live – Review

June 1, 1997

It’s just a live CD (plus some other stuff) of Spooky Ruben. It’s pop. Whatever. But amongst that “other stuff” is something that really gets me, down deep.

Slumberland – Sleep That Burns – Review

June 1, 1997

Slumberland’s Sleep That Burns reminds me of what happened when the circus downsized and the strongman had to pull the tightrope walker’s job.

Skavoovie & The Epitones – Review

June 1, 1997

With half the ten-member band on brass, Skavoovie & The Epitones provide an unmatched super-phat horn sound.

Garbage Pail – Sample Questions from The Punker Aptitude Test – Column

June 1, 1997

If Bad Religion’s tour bus driving West at 69 mph, and collided with Def Leppard who were traveling East in a train going 92 mph, the resulting sound would be:

Sheep On Drugs – One For the Money – Review

June 1, 1997

Sheep on Drugs bastardize every genre, steal clips from anywhere and everywhere, and yet still write songs.

Sham 69 – Kings and Queens – Review

June 1, 1997

The songs collected on this disc, recorded between 1976 and 1978, hold up today. Actually, better than most first- and second-generation U.K. punk.

Garbage Pail – Scene Splicing – Column

June 1, 1997

Scene Splicing: Panterosmith. Sly and the Family Stone Temple Pilots. Ani DiFrankie Goes To Hollywood.

Regurgitator – Tu-Plang – Review

June 1, 1997

There’s no consistency between the tunes, and although each one is performed competently, there’s no sense of unity.

What The Hell Is Ska? – Column

June 1, 1997

Ska originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a hybrid of the island music with the American music that was trickling into the islands.