January, 2000 | Lollipop Magazine

The Get Up Kids – Something to Write Home About – Review

January 1, 2000

It doesn’t take more than two songs to show that the percentage of creativity at work here is zero.

The Get Up Kids – Red Letter Day – Review

January 1, 2000

Hmm… so the world’s most overrated band has given us two releases at once. How nice. Well, at least one of them, Red Letter Day, is only an EP.

Danzig – Satan’s Child – Review

January 1, 2000

A return, full of evil doomy guitar chords, multiple eccentric Danzig vocals, and lots of metal. Far and clear best track is the record’s closer, “13.”

The Frogs – Bananimals – Review

January 1, 2000

This is pedophiliac fetish cult pop with its face in the crotch of social mores. Invite dirty old man boy love into your stereo with The Frogs.

The Frantic Flattops – Rock-n-Roll Murder – Review

January 1, 2000

The Frantic Flattops occasionally venture into swing territory, they even cross into non-Dixieland jazz, and punk isn’t outta their repertoire either.

Hot for Remixes – A Tribute to Van Halen – Review

January 1, 2000

Full-on techno versions of Halen’s greatest blood-grain alcohollers. At least the label slaps on a famous second-string hair vocalist to each abortion.

Fastmusic Kills – Review

January 1, 2000

Good ol’ dirty-sounding pop-punk, the kinda stuff the bigger underground labels polish for mass consumption. Here it is in original, messy form, warts and all.

City Rockers – A Tribute to the Clash – Review

January 1, 2000

Most of the bands can’t think of anything interesting to do with their song, so they read it as the clumsy punk or hardcore they normally do.

Cinema Beer Belly – Review

January 1, 2000

Not only are there the standard big names and mediocre bands that the label wants you to know about, there’re some bands that you’d not expect to find here.

Bombay the Hard Way – Guns, Cars & Sitars – Review

January 1, 2000

’70s gangster film soundtrack music. From India. In the ’70s & ’80s, Bombay cranked out dozens of “Brownsploitation” movies in the vein of Dolomite and Shaft.