1001 albums you must die before you hear·Music·Recordings World’s Worst Records – Alison Gold’s Chinese Food October 1, 2024 Matthew Kelly Our expert on the worst of the worst, the honourable MATT KELLY, gets stuck into a very dubious release that verges on culturally insensitive. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music World’s Worst Records – Dizzee Rascal’s The Fifth September 19, 2024 Matthew Kelly Dizzee Rascal has made some acclaimed albums but The Fifth isn't one of them, writes MATT KELLY, who rues just how low the rapper Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Music·Recordings World’s Worst Records: Liverpool FC’s Anfield Rap September 6, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY could write a book about the thoroughly awful phenomenon of English football club singles, but wisely chooses to stick to an especially Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Music·Recordings World’s worst records: Ladbaby July 24, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY was going to review Journey until he heard Ladbaby's appropriation of a really shit song. We feel really sorry for him. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music World’s Worst Records – Fallout Boy July 9, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY is so fed up with Fallout Boy that he writes his own review of this utter dreck in verse. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music World’s Worst Records – Bruno Mars June 27, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY digs up a record that Bruno Mars might just want to forget in which the pop phenomenon is caught literally taking his Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music World’s Worst Records – David Hasselhoff June 10, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY presents Part One of a survey of the complete musical works of Sir David Michael Hasselhoff. Eek. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings World’s Worst Records: Janelle Monae May 30, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY absolutely loved her previous album but Janelle Monae's latest sucks so bad that he can't help feel let down. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings World’s Worst Records – The Portsmouth Sinfonia May 23, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY writes about a record that is both diabolically awful and amazingly great and which everyone should get out there and hear. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music World’s Worst Records – Blackout Band May 17, 2024 Matthew Kelly 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear #103: Blackout Band – Video Games (2007) MATT KELLY writes about the strange case of a Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music World’s Worst Records – The Small Faces April 30, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY is aghast at how far this formerly great band had fallen by the time of its reunion albums and explains their sad Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Macho Man Randy Savage April 14, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY loves records by washed-up wrestlers but Randy Savage's attempt to musically spar with Hulk Hogan is an unmitigated disaster. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear #100: Metallica with Lou Reed – Lulu March 23, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY somehow manages to listen to 90 minutes of possibly the worst collaborative album by major rock figures ever made. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Music·Recordings Rick Wakeman’s horrific Beatles ‘Tribute’ March 14, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY finds a blotch in the prog-rock keyboard maestro's catalogue that's even more risible than King Arthur On Ice. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·NZ music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Wing March 4, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY's tribute to one of the best/worst singers ever to grace NZ stages and Southpark, a true classic of awful. RIP Wing. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Captain Sensible’s Happy Talk February 13, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY has something to say about a punk icon making music softer than a pillowcase stuffed with whipped cream. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece Two Pink Guy albums for the price of one. Gah! January 23, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY listens all the way through (so you don't have to) to two of the most imbecilic records ever made. Shame on Pink Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Ladbaby’s sausage roll record January 11, 2024 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY reproduces a letter reprimanding in no certain terms Ladbaby for the unforgivable indiscretion of his sausage roll song. Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Fallout Boy’s Mania December 19, 2023 Matthew Kelly MATT KELLY once had a bit of a thing for Fallout Boy, but no more, savaging their Mania album for being the dog it Read More
1001 albums you must die before you hear·Albums·Music·Recordings·Thought Piece 1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Patrick Stump’s Soul Punk December 12, 2023 Matthew Kelly Fallout Boys' stuff was okay but MATT KELLY is utterly stumped at how totally and irredeemably naff that group's Pat Stump's solo is. Read More