Lollipop Magazine

The Future Sound of London – The Isness – Review

November 15, 2002

The Isness references Chemical Brothers, The Beatles, um… Supertramp, and even throws together what could be called “classic” freak-outs, Zappa-style.

Notes From Thee Real Underground – 2 – Review

November 11, 2002

Reading off the bio: “These bands (on Notes from Thee Underground 2) will soon follow in the path paved by Tub Ring, Pointy Teeth, CEOXiME, The Follow…”

If I Was Prince – Review

November 11, 2002

It’s a buncha Brits covering Prince songs. Some are better than others, but the whole thing’s a goof.

Cash From Chaos – A Tribute to Johnny Cash – Review

November 11, 2002

Industrial bands covering Johnny Cash. When you want tongue-in-cheek, you get seriousness. When you want a dead-serious, brutal version, you get a goof.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part – Review

November 8, 2002

The videos themselves aren’t really that much to shout about. The really interesting part is in the studio, and the interviews with him and Mick Harvey.

Opium Jukebox – Never Mind the Bhangra, Here’s The… – Review

November 8, 2002

The ever-mercurial Martin Atkins and friends got extremely high, picked up a sitar, did some drum’n’bass programming, and covered The Sex Pistols songs.

Liars – They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top – Review

November 8, 2002

If Gang Of Four and The Clash wrote songs with Sonic Youth, you might get something like They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top.

The Chemical Brothers – Come With Us – Review

October 4, 2002

Not as good as the new Prodigy album, but what do you want from two guys who revolutionized electronic music, and then hid behind a dance beat for 10 years?

Acumen Nation – The 5ifth Column – Review

October 4, 2002

Acumen Nation mix NIN and PM5K with their Gravity Kills/Stabbing Westward/Frontline Assembly sound, but sprinkle a bit of Crystal Method on the anger stew.

Radio 4 – Gotham! – Review

September 20, 2002

Like they have something to say, and it doesn’t matter what the words are, cuz the snotty’n’pissed inflection tells ya all you need to know.