The Datsuns - The Datsuns
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Universal acclaim- based on 20 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the New Zealand rockers, who have drawn comparisons to everyone from The Stooges and AC/DC to, of course, the White Stripes, and have been the subject of fawning articles in the UK music press (but then again, who hasn't) in recent months.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 18
  2. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. They rock hard and fast and damn the stylistic similarities, because they have as much energy and explosive tendencies that even the Stooges themselves showed back in their heyday.
  2. 'The Datsuns' is an album that could have been made in 1967, 1977 or 1987, but which, fortunately for them, was made in 2002.
  3. Nothing terribly original here, but they do manage to kick out the jams with fervor and the kind of enthusiasm that only wavers when carpel-tunnel or rheumatism sets in.
  4. If The Datsuns serve any purpose, it's to remind us that 70s glam/garage-rock was largely accountable for the abomination that was 80s hair-metal.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. DavidS
    10
    If you're into pure rock and roll and amazing powerful riffs then it's outstanding.
  2. WilliamM
    10
    FUCKING AWESOME, more great Kiwi Music
  3. Francis
    8
    Pitchforkmedia again proving that they are more concerned with keeping up their indie image than giving albums a chance. They really are a tiresome magazine. Album is good. Nothing revolutionary, but I'd rather this be popular than pop. Expand
  4. BenJ.
    3
    Oh hurrah! It's alright to like AC/DC again, metal is back and there's no trace of irony. No, sorry. This album is very poor. Gimmicky RAWK that will sound very, very tired in no time. Expand

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