MATT KELLY somehow manages to get all the way through the very worst of Yes and the answer is a definitive ‘No!’
Music history
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.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Black Lace’s The Blue Album
MATT KELLY has finally met his match in an album that he declares to be the worst he’s ever heard… ever!
Margaret Urlich – 1989-style
As our wee tribute to Margaret Urlich (24 January 1965 – 22 August 2022) GARY STEEL revisits a piece he wrote around the release of her debut album.
Albums Of 1972 – EL&P’s 50-year-old Trilogy an unheralded classic
Progressive rock came of age in 1972 and one of its greatest achievements was Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s wonderful Trilogy, writes GARY STEEL.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Black Lace’s Greatest Ever Party Album
MATT KELLY is rattled by an album that demands you not think, that you just shuffle mindlessly onto the dance floor at your cousin’s wedding.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Uriah Heep’s Equator
MATT KELLY points his shit-o-meter at an album that’s bad to the bone, and ‘dem bones are wracked with early-onset osteoporosis.
Hallelujah – a flawed film about a songwriting genius and just one song
REBEKAH DAVIES reviews a fascinating but problematic film about a songwriting genius and a song covered to the point of meaninglessness.