Outta Sight / Outta Mind - The Datsuns
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Metascore
47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

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8.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

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  • Summary: The New Zealand rockers return with a second album, produced by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 3 out of 14
  1. Stylus Magazine
    80
    Outta Sight/Outta Mind is not an album that you can discuss in measured tones whilst tending to your beard. It is an album that will only cause mass hysteria and blood clots and burst forth Kundalini from the base of your spine like some auto-massage chair plugged into the wrong transformer while you holler “wheeeeaaauurgh!!” and finally slump down into a wet pile of exhaustion.
  2. Q Magazine
    60
    Halfway through... it becomes a directionless mess. [Jul 2004, p.113]
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  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    40
    Their preoccupation with '70s British metal finds them wandering dangerously into gobilin-and-ghouls prog-rock territory. [5 Jun 2004, p.54]
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  4. Dot Music
    30
    For people awaiting that second Jet album, this should prove a welcome distraction from their crayons. For the rest of us it's a look of bemusement and a scratched head.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. MikeV.
    10
    i don't understand why the datsuns get ratings like 40% if you would know anything about music you would understand that this band is all about rockn' roll coming back to life!! rockn' roll isn't dead!! look at franz ferdinand they are dead! have you ever listened to their second album? I doubt it if i read your comment! but yeah i know everybody likes something else but the datsuns deserve better and should be appreciated more!!… Collapse
  2. DellB
    8
    I enjoyed this album better than their first one. Its been well thought out and would appeal to young of course but also more mature audiences.
  3. markr
    7
    not as bad as the reviews would have you think. worth a listen.
  4. mmalcolm
    0
    The Datsuns were part of the garage rock trend (yes garage rock was fashionable during this period), set years ago by groups like the hives, etc... But garage rock is now dead and subpar bands like THE datsuns (and others "THE" bands), are now in process of extinction. By the way, Franz Ferdinand are not in any sense, a kind of trend or fashion as Sam M pretends. Franz Ferdinand are simply good.… Expand

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