Nik Rainey – Page 25 – Lollipop Magazine

Furry Things – The Big Saturday Illusion – Review

June 1, 1996

Sweetness frosted with fuzz ‘n’ phase, multi-guitar pileups on top of blissed-out melodies, like an analogue to My Bloody Valentine’s gold-leaf glide-pop.

Tail Spins – #2 – Review

June 1, 1996

Open up to “Felix Navarro’s Bitter Corner,” the regular sprawl of unrestrained spleneticism that’s as viciously funny as a buzzsaw-wielding stand-up comic.

Insight – #15 – Review

May 1, 1996

Rest assured, you’re bound to be offended by something in here. Insight is infantile, scatological, obnoxious, and endlessly contentious. I love it.

Uncle Jud – Review

May 1, 1996

Berklee-bred technical proficiency applied to yellowing schematics out of the Painfully Sincere Hard Rock 101 textbook.

The Moog Cookbook – Review

May 1, 1996

Ten grunge-era standards performed as if Walter/Wendy Carlos was the main talis(wo)man of modern music rather than, say, Sabbath or the Stooges.

The Meices – Dirty Bird – Review

May 1, 1996

The Meices are unafraid to be melodic, even sensitive, but still retain the flip exuberance that makes the rough stuff fun.

Kustomized – At The Vanishing Point – Review

May 1, 1996

Where other bands mellow, ripen and rot with age, the thirtywhatevers of Boston’s finest keep getting harder, rougher, and snarlier with every release.

A Few of My Favorite Things – Three Books I’m Reading – Column

May 1, 1996

John Waters, Trash Trio – The scripts for three of Johnny’s finest: Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, and (the sadly never produced) Flamingos Forever.

Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music – Review

May 1, 1996

Still not original, the music is bar-band serviceable but awkward and stiff, and the lyrics continue to reach far beyond their grasp in search of profundity.

A Few of My Favorite – Things If You Don’t Own This Album… – Column

May 1, 1996

The Stooges, Fun House (Elektra, 1970) – Accept no substitutes.