1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Stevie Wonder’s Characters July 15, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY on an album that offered up Stevie Wonder as a spent force whose dull songs sounded like offcuts and just went on Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Killing Joke’s Brighter Than A Thousand Suns July 5, 2022 Matthew Kelly Killing Joke's striking early albums really meant something but this mid-'80s album is a synthpop washout, writes MATT KELLY. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece Are these the two worst records ever made? July 4, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY thinks he might have found the very worst two records of all time, even though he's only setting out on his mammoth Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – A gruesome Jethro Tull twosome! June 29, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY finds it necessary and the right thing to do to dump on not one, but TWO albums by classic rockers Jethro Tull. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Diana, The Musical June 25, 2022 Matthew Kelly With its hilariously off-colour and risible lyrics and crappy music backing, Diana The Musical easily makes MATT KELLY's infamous list. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Marilyn Manson’s Mechanical Animals June 15, 2022 Matthew Kelly Even at his very best Marilyn Manson sucks the biscuit as far as MATT KELLY is concerned. Read on to find out why. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Walker Hayes’ Country Stuff June 9, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY puts a very sharp knife into a fat platter with thin ideas that may actually be the worst album of our year Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Mick Jagger’s She’s The Boss June 3, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY marvels at a shockingly bad album wherein Jagger uses 31 great session musicians for seemingly no reason whatsoever. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – The Doors’ Full Circle June 2, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY casts his withering gaze at the second and final post-Jim Morrison album and isn't in the least bit impressed. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – William Hung x 3 May 25, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY traces the mercifully brief career over just three abysmal albums of former American Idol star William Hung. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Mrs Miller’s Greatest Hits May 24, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY finds himself actually enjoying this awful album, and siding with the masses who put it on the charts in the '60s. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Grand Funk Railroad’s All The Girls In The World Beware May 23, 2022 Matthew Kelly Do you want to hear the singer boast about the dark brown stains on his underwear? MATT KELLY sure as hell does not. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – ELO Part 2’s Moment Of Truth May 6, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY has his sights on a record made by most of ELO (but minus Jeff Lynn) and he's in a vicious mood. What Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Robert Plant’s Shaken And Stirred May 3, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY saw Robert Plant as someone to trust to always do the right thing. That is, until he released this piece of unmitigated Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear #18 – Echo by Gracious April 24, 2022 Matthew Kelly Reunion albums often suck but they're rarely as godawful as this egg-on-face progressive rock travesty, writes MATT KELLY. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before Your Hear – Paul Lekakis’s Tattoo It April 16, 2022 Matthew Kelly The 'Boom Boom Let's Go Back To My Room' guy didn't even have one entertaining album in him, MATT KELLY discovers. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear #16 – Manic Street Preachers’ Resistance Is Futile April 13, 2022 Matthew Kelly The Manic Street Preachers' depressing schtick gets well and truly tired on an album that MATT KELLY wished never existed. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear #15 – Nicky Wire’s I Killed The Zeitgeist April 12, 2022 Matthew Kelly Why did the Manic Street Preachers let Nicky Wire out to sing so horrendously on his solo disc? MATT KELLY can only sigh. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – The Fast Food Rockers’ diabetes-enhancer April 1, 2022 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY valiantly warns the unsuspecting music fan to stay away from the horrendous 2003 comeback of Stock (of Aitken Waterman). Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – The Stranglers’ 10 March 30, 2022 Matthew Kelly The last gasp of the original Stranglers lineup, 10 is an execrable, lame and indefensibly weak way to bid adieu, writes MAT KELLY. Read More