Jon Sarre – Page 35 – Lollipop Magazine

The Smugglers – Growing Up Smuggler: A Ten Year Anniversary Live Album – Review

January 1, 1999

Anglophile garage pop + Lookout! = it’s no wonder they had to go to Europe to make a live record.

The Lurkers – Greatest Hit – Review

January 1, 1999

The Lurkers, FYI, were first generation UK punkers, messy partiers like the Damned, but musically more deliberate.

The Leaving Trains – Favorite Mood Swings – Review

January 1, 1999

Unappreciated and unknown, they create usually short, sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant rock’n’roll which veers from driving punk to drunken country blues.

The La Donnas – Rock You All Night Long – Review

January 1, 1999

This Denver-based crew walk a mile high in their Converse All-Stars, constructin’ 2:30 punk rock epics.

Electric Frankenstein – Spare Parts – Review

January 1, 1999

Spare Parts (the title shoulda clued me in) is Fractured in its entirety with the instrumental “EF Stomp” and three live tracks tacked on.

Tedio Boys – Bad Trip – Review

January 1, 1999

Ditchin’ the riot-gun scatter of rock’n’roll buffet of their first US release, these punked up Portuguese garage rats stake a claim in Crypt/Estrus territory.

Steel Miners – Ballin’ – Review

January 1, 1999

Ballin’ is less frantic than their debut LP, Irony, and miles away from their molar-diggin’, unhinged Don Fleming-produced after-birth announcement EP, Dig.

Dead Boys – All This And More – Review

January 1, 1999

Two discs of live Dead Boys is mebbe more than you’ll wanna listen to in one sitting. Maybe you could listen to one, then go out to a bar and get shitfaced.

SNFU – Let’s Get It Right the First Time – Review

January 1, 1999

They pepper Let’s Get It Right the First Time with chestnuts like “I Forget,” “Bobbit,” and “Eric’s Had a Bad Day.”

Blonde Redhead – The Expression of the Inexpressible – Review

January 1, 1999

I hope to God that these conceptual purty-anti-melodic noodler nitwits aren’t as fucking earnest as they come off.