January 1999 – Page 7 – Lollipop Magazine

Dirty Deeds – Danger Of Infection – Review

January 1, 1999

If you like your punters long in the tooth, then Dirty Deeds are yer codgers. Born from the ashes of the lingering mid-’80s act Chariot.

Stinkaholic – Melee – Review

January 1, 1999

Like Rancid but think their songs are too well-written and over-produced? Check out Stinkaholic.

Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited – The Fluid Soundbox – Review

January 1, 1999

A timeless, sonically rich album that transports you to a windswept ghost town, a grimy back alley in a mob-run city, or a mad scientist’s secret hidaway.

Dio – Inferno: Last in Live – Review

January 1, 1999

Crushing versions of classics “Holy Diver,” “Heaven and Hell,” “The Last in Line,” “Rainbow in the Dark,” “The Mob Rules,” and “Man on the Silver Mountain.”

Stereolab – Aluminum Tunes (Switched On, Volume 3) – Review

January 1, 1999

At the rate Stereolab pumps out these rarities collections, one has to wonder whether the Marx-Moogs-and-magic collective allows themselves any sleep.

Steel Miners – Ballin’ – Review

January 1, 1999

Ballin’ is less frantic than their debut LP, Irony, and miles away from their molar-diggin’, unhinged Don Fleming-produced after-birth announcement EP, Dig.

Dead Voices On Air – Piss Frond – Review

January 1, 1999

Because of Invisible, I can listen to gems like this. Piss Frond is a great record. Words are trite and don’t really convey anywhere near what’s here.

St. Etienne – Good Humor – Review

January 1, 1999

This LP is virtually an aural ice sculpture. Not that it sounds inhuman, exactly – it’s coolly synthesized, but not coldly synthetic.

Dead Boys – All This And More – Review

January 1, 1999

Two discs of live Dead Boys is mebbe more than you’ll wanna listen to in one sitting. Maybe you could listen to one, then go out to a bar and get shitfaced.

Dash Rip Rock – Paydirt – Review

January 1, 1999

Plodding drums, serious powerchords and grinning vocals merrily punkify all that would be angst in the sometimes honky tonk, occasionally folksy Paydirt.