Lollipop Magazine

Welcome To The Aerosmithsonian – A Tribute to Aerosmith – Review

June 4, 2001

All told, this sounds like a talentless hair band that couldn’t get signed in 1989 one-taking a bunch of demos in Mama Kin’s garage.

TV Sucks – Review

June 4, 2001

This novelty comp is all TV theme songs. But it’s mostly German. But it’s punkpop: It’s fun and silly, and “Pipi Langstrumpf” is head-bobbing in any language.

Turbo’s Tunes – Review

June 4, 2001

This sampler of the label’s most recent licks at the driveways of garage rock delivers all this – but also a good helping of the unexpected.

Tribute to the Pixies – Review

June 4, 2001

Japan is known for the most atrocious noise bands as well as some of the most saccharine pop. The Pixies were a buncha noise heads who wrote pop songs.

Too Legit For the Pit – Hardcore Takes the Rap – Review

June 4, 2001

Mostly white guys with pants that don’t fit, wallet chains, and ball caps who don’t know dick about the ghetto or the crush of constant prejudice. Some gems.

The Worldwide Tribute to the Real Oi – Review

June 4, 2001

Here are 13 bands spewing out the old faves (along with one of the originals, The Business, doing the Iron Cross classic, “Crucified”).

The “Gone with the Wind” of Punk Rock Samplers – Review

June 4, 2001

Of the 19 songs, there are teasers from up-coming records, demo versions, and unreleased tracks, and some songs are just hard to find. The usual appeal.

Terror Firmer Soundtrack – Review

June 4, 2001

It’s Troma, so unless you rent only from Blockbuster, you know this is some sexy, gross, weird and wild shit. Get this soundtrack cuz every band is a someone.

Tales from the Crypt – Monsters of Metal – Review

June 4, 2001

From Sabbath’s ’76’s “Heaven and Hell” to ’00’s Apartment 26 (could be Kittie or Coal Chamber, really) to faves like Entombed, The Haunted, and Arch Enemy.

Take a Bite Outta Rhyme – A Rock Tribute to Rap – Review

June 4, 2001

Classic rap, the time period even today’s rappers realize they can’t match, covered by a buncha white kids who’ve been encouraged instead of bitch-slapped.

Stay Tuned for the Holidays – A Crank! Sampler – Review

June 4, 2001

From the folks who brought you some of the first emo bands/groundbreakers (if you can call ’em that) comes… more emo.

Punk Chartbusters – Vol. 3 – Review

June 4, 2001

Punk bands cover top 40 songs throughout the ages. Two CDs, 50 tracks, ranging from shitty bands I’ve never heard of to shitty bands I HAVE heard of. I kid…

New York City Takeover – Vol. Two – Review

June 4, 2001

These two live samplers/comps are really bad representations of what Victory has to offer. Recorded during the last CMJ showcase.

New York City Takeover – Vol. One – Review

June 4, 2001

These two live samplers/comps are really bad representations of what Victory has to offer. Recorded during the last CMJ showcase.

Music from The Succubus Club A Soundtrack to Vampire: The Masquerade – Review

June 4, 2001

Surprisingly consistent, rich, full-sounding, and, well good. If more Goth music was of this quality, I’d be much more inclined to say “I like Goth music.”

Live Fat, Die Young – Fat Music Vol. V – Review

June 4, 2001

The fifth edition in the Fat Music series. I recommend this sampler to anyone who quips that all Fat bands sound the same. That was a long time ago, loser.

Legendary Harley-Davidson Road Songs – Review

June 4, 2001

I hope they make a series outta this and I get them all. I gots a big bottle of Jack and I’ll arm-wrestle anyone who wants to have a go. Rockin’ like it’s 1975.

Inhale 420 – The Stoner Rock Compilation – Review

June 4, 2001

A nice bandwagon-jumper of a comp aimed to get you on board with some of Spitfire’s heavier rock’n’roll bands.

I Guess This is Goodbye – The Emo Diaries Chapter Five – Review

June 4, 2001

Even though the freshness of the music has died out, The Emo Diaries still manages to save the brightest young talent in the pool from drowning.

Holiday Matinee CD Compilation – Vol. 2 – Review

June 4, 2001

Best friend and most eager to give hugs to gentle indie rock bands, Holiday Matinee is a PR firm that believes in and loves its roster at the same time.

Gothic Club Classics – Volume 1 – Review

June 4, 2001

Staples like Bauhaus and Fields of the Nephilim and “dance Goth,” “Goth rock,” and “Goth metal.” Plus Nick Cave, Diamanda Galas, and Einstüzende Neubauten.

Free the West Memphis Three – Review

June 4, 2001

It’s the kind of stuff that makes your blood boil. The kind of stuff that makes you wonder how some people can remember to breath when they’re this stupid.

Equal Vision Records Label Sampler – Review

June 4, 2001

It’s eerie how the best songs on here are from bands long since broken up.

Doomed – Review

June 4, 2001

Three CD set of known, kinda known, and new kids on the stoner/heavy/doom/apres-Sabbath rocker block. For about a buck more than you’d pay for a single disc.

Disarming Violence – Review

June 4, 2001

25 songs totaling more than an hour, all punk rock, all to benefit PAX, an anti-gun violence (not anti-gun) organization, what’s not to like?