D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
by Junior Senior
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. AllMusic
    80
    The results are goofy but undeniably exhilarating.
  2. Pitchfork
    76
    [Sounds] as much like playful garage-rock as cocky Europop.
  3. Uncut
    80
    Their hedonistic sex-dance anthems go down a treat. [Apr 2003, p.103]
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  5. PopMatters
    90
    They are basically just the Archies for our generation, a transcendent bubblegum band that works its ass off to make all this stuff look easy.
  6. Q Magazine
    80
    Pop doesn't get much more gloriously trashy than this. [Apr 2003, p.108]
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  7. The A.V. Club
    70
    Junior Senior plays pop music, pure and simple, and the abundant joys on D-D-Don't should make even the most hopeless cynic reevaluate priorities that don't allow for pop's fleeting glories.
  8. Spin
    67
    Funky like Fred Schneider and Barney Fife killin' it at karaoke. [Sep 2003, p.115]
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  9. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    If you think songs get into trouble past the three-minute mark and words are nothing more than things that fall out of your mouth, D-D-Don't Don't Stop The Beat is the record for you. [8 Aug 2003, p.71]
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  10. Austin Chronicle
    78
    By not being "smart" enough to subdivide their appreciation of pop into a series of echo chambers, Junior Senior comes close to recapturing the preteen joy of responding to music unhindered by stigma.
  11. Blender
    80
    Ceaselessly enthusiastic European dance-pop that's deliriously colorful, vividly inane and usually about themselves. [Aug 2003, p.126]
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  12. Stylus Magazine
    77
    All the songs sound almost exactly the same. I don’t care! It doesn’t matter! Just dance!
  13. Urb
    70
    A high-spirited whoosh of urgent dance pop and groovy psychedelic bop. [Sep 2003, p.102]
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  14. Playlouder
    90
    Gleeful, glorious, and utterly unique.
  15. E! Online
    100
    A most pleasurable guilty pleasure.
  16. Village Voice
    80
    It's like each song on the album has the dynamics and reach of a DJ set, ramming David Bowie and Fats Domino into K.C. and the Sunshine Band, then gluing it together with full-throated sugar-pop harmonies and a rhythm section worthy of the Beatles at Hamburg's Star Club.

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User Score
7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 15
  3. Negative: 3 out of 15
  1. funkydoodycool
    Oct 11, 2012
    10
    Absolutely brilliant, an essential record. This is dance music for people who don't care too much for dance music.

    It's like a huge, great    Absolutely brilliant, an essential record. This is dance music for people who don't care too much for dance music.

    It's like a huge, great grin on CD.    … Full Review »
  2. Sophiemichele
    Aug 27, 2007
    7
    Cheesy? Yes. But ridiculously catchy? ALSO YES! =D It's okay if you genuinely dislike this album, but this album was made to be FUN - Cheesy? Yes. But ridiculously catchy? ALSO YES! =D It's okay if you genuinely dislike this album, but this album was made to be FUN - and that's what it is.… Full Review »
  3. MikeB
    Sep 13, 2006
    10
    One of my all time favourite albums. It's great to sing along to, and just have a bunch of fun!
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