Lollipop Magazine

X – Beyond and Back: The X Anthology – Review

April 1, 1998

With Beyond and Back: The X Anthology, Elektra pay homage to the most important combo to bop mythically outta L.A. since the Doors.

New York Beat – Breaking and Entering Vol. 2 – Review

April 1, 1998

About time they came out with a sequel. This captures the heart of NY ska, a mess of styles and influences from traditional, jazz, rocksteady, and new skool.

The Carnival Within: A Tribute to Dead Can Dance – Review

April 1, 1998

Oh, I was trying to avoid this one, but it came up in the pile, and I can’t get rid of it. Who in their right mind would cover Dead Can Dance?

Hackers 2 Soundtrack – Review

April 1, 1998

Hackers 2 features some of the more popular electronica groups: Prodigy, Orb, BT, Moby, Underworld, etc. but none of the tracks are the best the bands can do.

Bento Box – Review

April 1, 1998

On the whole, Bento Box doesn’t provide anything of much interest, just bleeping and blooping away, the new wave in elevator music.

Unsane – Occupational Hazard – Review

April 1, 1998

While not as gritty, it still possesses an almost hypnotic monotony that acts as a perfect white-noise buffer to the vagaries of an unpleasant environment.

War – Total War – Review

April 1, 1998

War is so mind-bogglingly evil and heavy, it’s almost impossible to describe without diminishing its force. Wow!

Union – Review

April 1, 1998

Ex-Mötley Crüe vocalist John Corabi and ex-Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick combine ’cause no real band would have ’em, and this way, no one could kick ’em out.

Tweezer – How to Live in a Day of Moral Chaos – Review

April 1, 1998

They end up soundin’ like pre-sellout Corrosion of Conformity, only smarter cuz they bought one of those vocal distortion things like the Butthole Surfers.

The Styrenes – We Care, So You Don’t Have To – Review

April 1, 1998

A literate, yet totally unpretentious honest-to-fuckin’-God great art record, or rock record, or art-rock record, whatever ya wanna call it.