Brian Varney – Page 24 – Lollipop Magazine

The Sights – Got What We Want – Review

February 14, 2003

The Sights, like Cheap Trick, so deftly combine the raw, sleazy swagger of classic Stones with the sterling pop sensibilities of the Beatles.

Cathedral – The VIIth Coming – Review

February 14, 2003

The VIIth Coming is full of heavy guitar riffs sure to satisfy the doom punters, but I don’t remember the earlier stuff being quite this, well, groovy.

Sheavy – Synchronized – Review

February 14, 2003

I can’t believe how annoyed I am with Sheavy’s crippling debt to Black Sabbath, especially Steve Hennessey’s uncommon vocal similarity to Ozzy Osbourne.

Raging Slab – Pronounced Eat Shit – Review

February 14, 2003

The tempos are generally on the slow side, the emotional tone one of contemplation. There’s none of the screaming that passes for emotion in modern rock music.

Grand Funk Railroad – On Time – Review

January 31, 2003

The debut, On Time, is a piston-pounding torrent of rhythmic overdrive, an hour’s worth of thumping beats banged out on raw, played-out drum heads.

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.

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.