Lollipop Magazine

Grand Funk Railroad – Live Album – Review

January 31, 2003

Nine blows to the head that up the intensity of the already crazed studio performances, driving everything faster until you feel as blurred as the cover.

Grand Funk Railroad – Live: The 1971 Tour – Review

January 31, 2003

A new collection of previously unreleased performances, contains different (in most cases, inferior) performances of five songs that also appear on Live Album.

Grand Funk Railroad – Closer to Home – Review

January 31, 2003

The band’s commercial breakthrough and the beginning of the end. The band is treading water for the first time.

Grand Funk Railroad – Grand Funk – Review

January 31, 2003

The Red Album is where the band’s sound really gelled, but it’s still the sound of a young band bashing it out with an abandon and enthusiasm.

The Benjamin Cartel – Saltwater – Review

January 31, 2003

The Benjamin Cartel have put out a truly solid, mellow, kind, rock album. This is the band you want to go hear every Tuesday night at your local bar.

Cattle Decapitation – To Serve Man – Review

January 31, 2003

Gore grind that flies off the handle as soon as you hit play. Like Carcass, Cattle Decapitation use their gory imagery as a protest against meat consumption.

The Apples In Stereo – Velocity of Sound – Review

January 31, 2003

Not unlike Ramones and Cheap Trick’s appeal, The Apples In Stereo morph ’50s bubble gum pop into hurling piles of noise, maintaining their unmistakable hooks.

Disturbed – Believe – Review

January 31, 2003

One of The Big (insert low number here) of the second wave of nü metal, Disturbed return after two years of gigging with another record of punchy chop metal.

Bad Wizard – Sophisticated Mouth – Review

January 30, 2003

Sped-up AC/DC-ish punkers with lotsa dueling Les Pauls and shouted background vocals. They haven’t written their “Ace of Spades” or “Whole Lotta Rosie” yet.

And Oceans – Cypher – Review

January 30, 2003

A cross between Arcturus, Zyklon, Peccatum, Rammstein, and The Kovenant, with songs that are surprisingly accessible.