Lollipop Magazine

The Stooges – 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions – Review

April 1, 2000

Take after take after take of each song is spent fine-tuning, honing each song into the flawless, feral shape it took on the album proper.

The Obsessed – Incarnate – Review

April 1, 2000

An odds-and-sods type collection, and the only Obsessed release in print. Despite the time and lineup differences, the thing coheres very well.

Fu Manchu – King of the Road – Review

April 1, 2000

Well-constructed, well-arranged rock songs driven by huge, fuzzed-out, ridiculously downtuned guitar riffs and a pummeling rhythm section. And cowbell.

Beaver – Lodge – Review

January 1, 2000

Beaver hail from Amsterdam, and like seemingly every other European stoner/heavy band in existence, they sound as if they were weaned on Kyuss albums and weed.

Brother JT3 – Way to Go – Review

January 1, 2000

There are the fractured Brian Wilson bedroom pop songs, and there are the Terry Brooks spazzodelic guitar freakouts. There’s a pronounced Neil Young influence.

Brant Bjork – Jalamanta – Review

January 1, 2000

This is pretty low-key stuff, kinda like the place where soul and psychedelia would meet if they ever decided to.

Uriah Heep – Sonic Origami – Review

January 1, 2000

It isn’t Bruce Dickinson singing, but it sure sounds like him. Uriah Heep is full of unfamiliar faces, because most of the original members are dead.

Acid King – Busse Woods – Review

January 1, 2000

Little to no actual songcraft happening here, but lotsa heavy riffing, grumbling low-end, and psychotic, tortured vocals for six to ten minutes at a time.

Chris Cornell- Euphoria Morning – Review

January 1, 2000

What a disappointment. Chris Cornell was the singer in a fine rock band. What did he do after the band broke up? He made a wimpy singer/songwritery solo album.

Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile – Review

January 1, 2000

I have no problem with the whisper-to-a-scream thing, but it won’t work if you don’t have Nirvana’s tunes or Black Sabbath’s riffs, and The Fragile has neither.