Lollipop Magazine

Essential Pebbles – Review

April 1, 1999

Dig these fabulous, freaked-out, fuzzy ’60s songs that were hits before your mother was born. But your mother was born, and these weren’t hits.

Custom Made Scare – The Greatest Show on Dirt – Review

April 1, 1999

Custom Made Scare ain’t no Speedealer, but they sure wipe the floor with Setzer’s pompadour.

Lexicon – 9 – Review

April 1, 1999

With precious little irony or snideness to distance himself from the enormity of his sins, Richards bravely stares right into the rouged face of the abyss.

Stratovarius – Destiny – Review

April 1, 1999

With speedy riff-o-ramas, driving thuds of pure foot-stomping pleasure, and power ballads for the babes, Stratovarius perform deftly and wisely.

Butthole Surfers – After the Astronauts – Review

April 1, 1999

Has this been released? No? I’ll play the advance… oh. I think I see why.

Spineshank – Strictly Diesel – Review

April 1, 1999

From their use of distortion and guitar tones, to experimention with electronics, Spineshank aren’t a band content to play monochromatic metal.

Buffalo Tom – Smitten – Review

April 1, 1999

Acoustic-strummed stray dogs, flower-warped stone and secret societies make sweet poesy of dim New England introspections in Buffalo Tom’s sixth, Smitten.

The Styrenes – All the Wrong People are Dying – Review

April 1, 1999

Hot on the heels of the Styrenes’ first record in close to a decade, the smash We Care, So You Don’t Have To, comes this compilation of difficult-to-find work.

Solstice – New Dark Age – Review

April 1, 1999

Solstice are as dark and morbid as any of the lot, they’re just slower flowing.

The Slackers – The Question – Review

April 1, 1999

The album’s 19 songs have amazingly tight rhythm and great calypso musical grooves, true to ’60s-style ska, but without sounding dated or tired.