THE NIPS - "Only the End of the Beginning" LP Source: Maximum Rock N' Roll Date: Issue #223, December 2001 Author: Carolyn Keddy Copywrite: © Maximum 2001 A live bootleg of Shane MacGowan's late '70s band. No information given as to when it was recorded. They manage to do most of the songs from their singles so I guess it must have been recorded in 1980. There are three non-single songs included which sound so bad with a lot of popping and cutting out; "Love to Make You Cry" is a "Summertime Blues" ripoff, "Hit Parade" dedicated to the CLASH and SEX PISTOLS and "Can't Say No", introduced as a progressive, psychedelic type rocker. These tracks may please the completist, but there is no way I'd want to listen to these again. (CK) (Soho)