1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Cats
MATT KELLY eviscerates the innards and pukes up the entrails of the mewling disaster that was the 2019 take on Cats.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Teenage Mutant Turtles
MATT KELLY disrobes and dissects one of the most risible musical spinoffs in TV history. You have been warned.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear #54: Sonic In Sydney
MATT KELLY knows a turkey when he hears one, and unsurprisingly, its perpetrators have tried to bury this shocking '90s disaster.
Smelly Feet – The great Kiwi outsider finally gets an album
In 1981 “Smelly Feet” travelled the length and breadth of Aotearoa performing his confronting tunes to perplexed audiences and hawking his home-made singles. GARY
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Having Fun With Elvis On Stage
MATT KELLY actually really likes the Elvis Presley album on which Elvis Presley doesn't, uh... sing.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Pete Townshend’s The Iron Man
MATT KELLY is aghast at how a genius rocker like Pete Townshend could make such a complete turd. But he did.
Flying Nun, definitively.
Sometimes it takes an outsider to tell a story properly, writes GARY STEEL. Here’s the definitive tale of the first eight years of the
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – The Daft Side Of The Moon
The Who drummer Moon's solo album should have been a good chance to bang his drums, writes MATT KELLY. Instead, it's a drunken shambles.
Recent releases – April 1990
GARY STEEL was listening on an album-release conveyer belt back in 1990. Here are some mini-reviews he wrote for RTR Countdown magazine.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Doug Walker
Walker's pathetic demolition of Pink Floyd's The Wall is on many "worst album" lists, but MATT KELLY thinks otherwise.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Lil’ Dicky’s post-coital brain-farts
Comedy rapper Lil' Dicky's limp jokes make for an album that's not just awful. Worst still, it's forgettable writes MATT KELLY.
Polytown – a polyrhythmic classic that improves with age
Musicianly wank or an effing great album by three musicians at the top of their game? Total classic, proclaims GARY STEEL.
Stick three musos in a hotel room and what do you get?
Stick three improvising musicians in a hotel room for some spontaneous action and what do you get? Something special, writes GARY STEEL.
Dreamscapes echoing to infinity
GARY STEEL falls in love with a surprising album of evocative dreamscapes from a musician famed for his more rootsy work in The Bads.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Run DMC’s awful comeback
Does hip hop get any worse than the execrable comeback album by Run DMC? MATT KELLY thinks not and explains why.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – eyes wide shut
Widely considered their worst album, MAT KELLY somehow manages to listen to all 74 bloated minutes of the Yes album that nobody likes.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
MATT KELLY somehow manages to get all the way through the very worst of Yes and the answer is a definitive 'No!'
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Elvis’ Greatest Shit
MATT KELLY listens to a collection of Elvis Presley's worst songs and ends up finding it quite endearing, in a naff kind of way.
Easy listening art music – Darren Pickering’s Small Worlds
Sometimes musical contemplation is just what the doctor ordered and Small Worlds massaged GARY STEEL’s aural cavities in just the right way.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Shihad’s Beautiful Machine
MATT KELLY finally finds a Kiwi group to name and shame, and he reckons that this is easily the Wellington band's worst record.
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