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.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Joel’s Super Ghostbusters
Reviewing an album that makes him despair for humanity MATT KELLY has a fleeting affair with Joel.
Space is the place for Stinky Jim
GARY STEEL pronounces the second pleasing concoction by Kiwi dub connoisseur Stinky Jim in the space of a year a sensorial stunner.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Onision’s I Am Trash
Shock and horror! Onision keeps his trap shut and almost makes a good album, writes a visually shocked MATT KELLY.
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
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
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.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Uriah Heep’s Conquest
Conquest was a Heep album in name only writes MATT KELLY, who can't find a nice thing to say about their turn-of-the-decade excrescence.
The year The Doors released their best and worst albums
From the epochal genius of LA Woman to the sad drudge of Other Voices, both in 1971. “How the heck?” asks GARY STEEL.
RTR Countdown Magazine Best Albums Of ’89!
GARY STEEL's “countdown” of the 10 best albums of 1989 from the February 1990 issue of RTR Countdown. Oh-ho-ho!
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Pat Boone’s In A Metal Mood
In a rare move, MATT KELLY actually recommends smooth crooner Pat Boone's bizarre heavy metal monstrosity.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Stevie Wonder’s Characters
MATT KELLY on an album that offered up Stevie Wonder as a spent force whose dull songs sounded like offcuts and just went on
Summer of drugs
The psychedelic revolution flamed into the Summer Of Love in 1967 and Barry Miles was in the thick of it. GARY STEEL interviews the
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Killing Joke’s Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
Killing Joke's striking early albums really meant something but this mid-'80s album is a synthpop washout, writes MATT KELLY.
Are these the two worst records ever made?
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
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – A gruesome Jethro Tull twosome!
MATT KELLY finds it necessary and the right thing to do to dump on not one, but TWO albums by classic rockers Jethro Tull.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Diana, The Musical
With its hilariously off-colour and risible lyrics and crappy music backing, Diana The Musical easily makes MATT KELLY's infamous list.
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