“For completists, Bruno MacDonald’s The Greatest Albums You’ll Never Hear is a both a dream come true and a bit of a nightmare… This is music by some of rock’s heaviest hitters – and you can’t hear a single note of it.” – Rolling Stone
“It is a procrastinator’s delight, source of hours of nerdy music fun.” – L.A. Times
“At first glance The Greatest Albums You’ll Never Hear suggests a Q article expanded to 256 pages and packaged as a handsome hardback book. Start digging though, and it’s hard to stop… The story of this imaginary record collection makes for a strangely compelling read.” – Q
“The same dude that wrote 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die scored another paycheck with another great idea… An interesting read.” – Modernman.com
“Firstly, the writing and details provided by the raft of contributors are coherent, informative and very well researched. Secondly – and for lovers of pop-culture design this could be the deciding factor in buying the book – the publisher has spent decent money on securing the services of a batch of designers to create covers for albums that never developed enough to warrant one.” – Irish Times
“Enlisting the likes of Vaughan Oliver and John Pasche to create artwork for these parallel-universe discographies is a master stroke.” – Record Collector
“Rock historian MacDonald reveals the cautionary tales behind the ill-fated albums that never made it to market… It’s a marvel of rock history that might have been, never was or might yet be.” – Saga
“There is a good deal of interesting material contained within it… Recent and revelatory.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
