1999 – Page 75 – Lollipop Magazine

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).

Thumb – Exposure – Review

January 1, 1999

Skateboard jock Claus Grabke’s powerful voice rages with a speed, intensity, and emotion that belies the German scene’s penchant for conceptual grunting.

The Sugarcubes – The Great Crossover Potential – Review

January 1, 1999

You know we were getting desperate for leper messiahs when we started looking for them in Reykjavik.

The Smugglers – Growing Up Smuggler: A Ten Year Anniversary Live Album – Review

January 1, 1999

Anglophile garage pop + Lookout! = it’s no wonder they had to go to Europe to make a live record.

The Smooths – No Brakes – Review

January 1, 1999

The Smooths have heavy (but not hardcore crunchy) guitar, loads of horns, subtle keyboards, and plenty of singable choruses.