Chris Adams – Page 7 – Lollipop Magazine

Step Right Up: Songs of Tom Waits – Review

December 1, 1995

Without Waits’ grizzled vocals and persona, most of these songs end up sounding like anything else by the bands performing them.

Menswear – Nuisance – Review

November 1, 1995

Menswear’s best moments recall Buzzcocks or early Jam. At their worst moments, it becomes apparent that Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet had an indelible effect.

Means To An End: The Music of Joy Division – Review

November 1, 1995

nd is a beautifully haunting, haunted collection. Songs are treated with respect, but without the sycophantic reverence that makes most tribute albums bores.

Wayne/Jayne County – Rock ‘n’ Roll Cleopatra – Review

November 1, 1995

The music is mostly your straightforward blues-based mid-’70s Noo Yawk kinda thang – sorta like the Dolls but with a real(?) woman belting out the vocals.

Love Jones – Powerful Pain Relief – Review

October 1, 1995

Nothing more than diluted Sergio Mendes vibes meshed with the excruciating Wonderbread funk of Level 42, largely considered the most hated band of all time.

Yellow Pills – Volume 3 – Review

October 1, 1995

A series of records devoted to power pop, which essentially means catchy, guitar-based, American-sounding pop tunes. It’s 21 of those songs – in a row.

Garbage – Review

October 1, 1995

Remember Curve? Well, chuck that wall of shoegaze haze, toss in a few funky beats (courtesy of producer Butch Vig) and you have a rough blueprint for Garbage.

Spirit of ’73 – Rock For Choice – Review

October 1, 1995

A good cause does not necessarily make good music. An array of female artists (Aren’t men allowed to support the cause?) cover a buncha crap ’70s songs.

Spain – The Blue Moods of Spain – Review

October 1, 1995

A smoky, low/no-brainer, high on atmosphere, low on structure and tempo.

Richard Hell & Robert Quine – Go Now – Review

October 1, 1995

A spoken word reading of the first two chapters of Hell’s forthcoming book, is every bit as smack-soaked as Carroll’s Basketball … and Downtown Diaries,