1999 – Page 86 – Lollipop Magazine

Plastiscene – Seeing Stars – Review

January 1, 1999

Plastiscene have been seeing stars, awright – their names are Noel and Liam, of Oasis fame, fortune, and everything that goes with it.

Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing – Review

January 1, 1999

The tracks are thick with dark thoughts and bizarre rhymes, often cryptically impenetrable, sexy without explanation and reeking of stage makeup.

Pitbull Daycare – Six Six Sex – Review

January 1, 1999

Texans Pitbull Daycare have broken away from the prefabricated industrial genre of old to develop their own sound that’s firmly rooted in punk.

Pilsner – Autosuggestion – Review

January 1, 1999

Pretty cool, but not amazin’, gearhead punk in the “influenced by the Ramones & Motörhead” vein that Zeke and Nashville Pussy also shoot their rock’n’roll into.

P.W. Long – Push Me Again – Review

January 1, 1999

Long (ex-singer/guitar mangler for Mule, son) simply named his thing Reelfoot. This is the best Blues Explosion record to come out since Extra Width!

Oppressor – Elements of Corrosion – Review

January 1, 1999

It’s brutal, it’s fast, and it’s heavy as a motherfucker. This is the kind of tuneless death metal I have trouble appreciating.

The Culture Bunker – Raise High the Security Gates, Carpenters – Fiction

January 1, 1999

While it was displaced from the cover story to the Letters section, cut from 26,000 words to 150, it was the most important article I’ve ever had published.

Night Ranger – Seven – Review

January 1, 1999

“Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” and “(You Can Still) Rock in America” are a far cry from this platter of pastries.

New Wave Hookers – Review

January 1, 1999

Loud, crude, and armed with a sense of aesthetics that overwhelms any concept so wad-shot in punk rock as creativity.

Rage Against the Cubicle – Fiction

January 1, 1999

Remember, it’s all about one upsmanship when you’re dealing with hipsters. When they’re ironic, you’ve got to be “ironic.”