Lollipop Magazine

Tricky Woo – The Enemy is Real – Review

November 1, 1998

A big hit of Stoogoid mayhem, a dash of Thunders classicism, a shot of Sonics bluster, a dash of RFTC cut’n’paste, and a few too many Lazy Cowgirls shows.

Meat Beat Manifesto – Actual Sounds and Voices – Review

November 1, 1998

Actual Sounds And Voices is bloated with hooks, calling to mind their impressive 99% release.

Tricky – Angels with Dirty Faces – Review

November 1, 1998

Kudos for letting Scott Ian play more than the three riffs he’s been churning out for over a decade in Anthrax, but still, this is a major disappointment.

The Culture Bunker – A Friendly Remainder – Fiction

November 1, 1998

The ‘Bama Sutra: Showing in sadly explicit detail hundreds of different techniques and positions for having sex with blood relatives or the merely toothless.

A Call to Irons – Review

November 1, 1998

11 Iron Maiden classics spanning the years covered by underground bands ranging from neo-powermetal to traditional growl-and-snort death metal to avant doom.

Marvel Kind – Mini – Review

November 1, 1998

The new EP from Marvel Kind, an amalgam as curious as any I’ve chanced upon in recent months, again and again shoves many questions to the fore.

Magical Power Mako – Lo Pop Diamonds – Review

November 1, 1998

I am a fan of most Japanese pop music, but this sounds like a few kids’ parents bought them a four-track and a cheap keyboard with a bad drum machine built-in.

Trans Am – The Surveillance – Review

November 1, 1998

The bands starts laying on other grooves, straight into the next track, using electronics and a processed drum beat that keeps your synapses popping off.

Lyres – On Fyre – Review

November 1, 1998

Matador Records did us all a huge favor by re-releasin’ On Fyre, Lyres, Lyres, A Promise Is a Promise and the super-rare debut EP known as AHS 1005.

Traitors – Review

November 1, 1998

Ex-members of No Empathy and Apocalypse Hoboken comprise this straight-ahead, catchy but not at all dopey, hard but not tougher-than-thou band.