February 2002 – Page 37 – Lollipop Magazine

Louie Austen – Only Tonight – Review

February 15, 2002

Employs obvious drum patterns, marimba, and disco bass. Mostly seems like an update of Tom Jones-style songs. If you dig that, go right ahead.

Accept – Balls to the Wall – Review

February 15, 2002

Like Judas Priest records, Accept albums were albums, and ya just played the whole thing, thinking some songs kinda bit, but others make paper routes bearable.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Grand Opening and Closing – Review

February 15, 2002

Technical, precise, educated, informed, but ultimately boring to anyone who doesn’t give a shit about how music works and just cares about how music sounds.

The Four Corners – Say You’re a Scream – Review

February 15, 2002

This mix of Southern-fried garage blues, sing-song female vox, and the get-down-on-yer-knees-and-worship-at-the-alter-of-fuzz moment takes ’em outta the box.

Swarm – Devour – Review

February 15, 2002

Funny that with such great pedigree (three ex-members of Death Angel), this sucks so badly.

Grade – Headfirst Straight to Hell – Review

February 15, 2002

The music has gotten better, even without the input of now-departed founding member/main songwriter Greg Taylor, but the vocals still kill it.

Britny Fox – The Best Of – Review

February 15, 2002

Britny Fox were copycats from the start, but they stole the good stuff and put hot chicks in their videos.

Quiet Riot – Metal Health – Review

February 15, 2002

The title track and cover of Slade’s “Cum on Feel the Noize” hit huge and are rebel metal standards like Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going to Take It.”

Judas Priest – Unleashed In the East – Review

February 15, 2002

Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Hell Bent for Leather, and Unleashed In the East: The silver gleamed, the riffs rifled, and Halford was at his high-flying’ best.

Queensrÿche – Live Evolution – Review

February 15, 2002

Live Evolution spans their twenty years together, and every fan they’ve picked up along the way will quickly appreciate it.