Lollipop Magazine

Phil Shoenfelt – Blue Highway – Review

April 1, 1999

This stab at Hank Williams lost, lonely & vacant trailers for sale or rent falls short even if ya can mistake rust belt E. Europe for rust belt USA.

Pentagram – Human Hurricane – Review

April 1, 1999

There’s a reason Sabbath got famous and nobody else did. But this is as heavy, and actually heavier than most of the “elses”.

The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group – Sniff – Review

April 1, 1999

In the pop dumpster, The Jazz Butcher’s table scraps, “Quick! Fill your bag, Jim!”

Vallejo – Beautiful Life – Review

April 1, 1999

Lazy man’s Black Crowes, sometimes salsified and rippled with steel drums, occasionally stirred with a little lounge music, or shaken with honky-tonk guitars.

Black Sabbath – Reunion – Review

April 1, 1999

Black Sabbath’s live history is patchwork at best. The record sounds great, everybody is doing their job, the secret weapon being Bill Ward and Geezer Butler.

The Jackie Papers – Uckfay Ooyay – Review

April 1, 1999

Screaming punk rock, led by ex-Pink Lincoln Chris Barrows. This platter of spite’n’spittle was gloriously under-mixed by Bill & Stephen at The Blasting Room.

The Gathering- How to Measure a Planet? – Review

April 1, 1999

The spiffy graphics support this abandonment of metal, and the cryptic waffle-minded lyrics sound great from said hummingbird throat.

Word Virus – The William S. Burroughs Reader – Review

April 1, 1999

Compilation of published works spanning the career of one of the great American minds of the 20th Century. Includes an excerpt of the Kerouac collaboration.

Electropolis – Review

April 1, 1999

Sure, I expected Wumpscut, Mentallo and the Fixer, Evil’s Toy, and Haujobb to kick out the jams, but I had no idea every track was going to be great.

Orange Goblin – Time Travelling Blues – Review

April 1, 1999

We get as much Kiss, Deep Purple, and Mountain as we do Sabbath here, all delivered with tongue-in-cheek, really playing on this whole space-brain theme.