Lollipop Magazine

Gadfly – Review

January 1, 1999

Dense with fact, written by journalists with the right credentials, and usually short, very short, on interpretation. This works most of the time.

Cheeseball – Vol. 2 Issue 1 – Review

January 1, 1999

From the get-go, Cheeseball has always represented what I like best about ‘zines without any of the typical failings.

Zoobombs – Welcome Back – Review

January 1, 1999

Nipponese punx drunk on funk. Includes Keith Richards’ riffs and ? and the Mysterians’, as well as farty synth grooves and electronic handclapping.

Yellowcake – Hard Trax – Review

January 1, 1999

Part psychedelic techno, part dance techno, it’s a little slower, but that can easily be remedied by dropping another hit of Ecstasy.

X Marks The Pedwalk – Freaks – Review

January 1, 1999

Despite the “old fashioned” music technology of 1991, XMTP created an album in the Skinny Puppy/Front 242 electro vein that’s both chilly and inspired.

W.A.S.P. – Double Live Assassins – Review

January 1, 1999

They wrote songs you could sing, play on guitar, and really relate to (when you were an awkward, angry teen) without hating later for being sissified goop.

Wade – Odd Man Out – Review

January 1, 1999

You can tell Wade is a good band with a distinctive sound, but Odd Man Out trims all the edges, leaving only hints of an interesting noise pop band.

UFO – Walk on Water – Review

January 1, 1999

Walk on Water represents the reunion of the “original” (or, at least, the most famous) line-up of a band that found success in the mid-to-late ’70s.

Twin Obscenity – For Blood, Honour And Soil – Review

January 1, 1999

I still wonder how black metal got to be the sound of the Northern woods in winter, but it is not ours to question the corpsepaint.

Treiops Treyfid – Reach the Explosion! – Review

January 1, 1999

Treiops Treyfid was in a band I’ve never heard of (Pitchblende), but has friends in bands I have heard of (Tsunami, Delta 72, Air Miami, New Wet Kojak).