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Q MagazineSep 21, 2011It's undeniably infectious, maddeningly so at times. [Oct 2011, p.120]
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Aug 30, 2011Like One Love, Nothing But the Beat is about what gets people moving on the dance floor.
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Aug 30, 2011If Guetta's fifth album doesn't convince you that he's the Bono of the four-on-the-floor beat, it does show how good he is at making Eurohouse's thumping trounce and jet-engine synth whoosh feel like natural elements in the hip-hop, R&B and even rock continuum.
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Aug 30, 2011Without that soulful kind of anchor, Nothing But the Beat offers the same experience as one of Guetta's numerous remix sets, which is a compliment if you're a dancefloor and a caution if you're a pair of headphones.
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Aug 26, 2011As packed and punchy as Black Eyed Peas on steroids, this is the sound of the overground.
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Sep 6, 2011Nothing But The Beat is obsessed with the sex, swagger, and sensation of club culture, and taken individually, its songs are well-made, euphoric paeans to the dance-floor gods; but a deficiency of texture and emotional build causes them to blend into a predictable, exhausting murk of smoke and lasers.
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Sep 27, 2011Nothing But the Beat is in many ways a showcase of everything that is bad about pop music in 2011: derivative, novelty, shallow, rushed, Auto-Tuned to the ends of the earth and thoroughly uninteresting.
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Aug 26, 2011Nothing But the Beat may sound like a one-man hit parade, but it also takes its title far too literally.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 61 out of 100
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Mixed: 20 out of 100
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Negative: 19 out of 100
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Aug 29, 2011
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Aug 29, 2011
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Dec 16, 2014