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The Datsuns re-create the sound of a beer- and weed-fueled Saturday night in 1973, borrowing and blending the revving guitar riffs and choked, macho vocals of Thin Lizzy, Bad Company, .38 Special, and on occasion, the hornier side of Led Zeppelin.
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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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UncutIt helps that these 10 primitive songs are excellent, and that The Datsuns attack them with such vehemently anti-ironic gusto. [Nov 2002, p.118]
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It's pure driving music, the type that's fun to listen to while blasting through a deserted stretch of prairie highway, but it's also something you wind up immediately forgetting the second you stop for a bathroom break.
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Mojo[The Datsuns] do the rawk thing so well you can forgive them almost anything. [Dec 2002, p.106]
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Q MagazineLike the '70s, then, but much more fun. [Nov 2002, p.98]
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It's exhilarating, daft and triggers spontaneous hair growth better than a vat of Pantene.
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Watching this museum piece come to life in a sweaty dive might make for an amusing night out. But on disc, why settle for a third-generation Xerox when the original documents still exist?
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With so much apparent calculation involved, it makes sense that the group's self-titled debut is neither as good nor as bad as it might have been.
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If the Datsuns' retro sound is currently getting them Strokes/Stripes levels of hype, their blow-the-doors-off passion should allow them to leave their peers in the dust.
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With the roaring guitars and raucous attitude blaring from The Datsuns, it is tough not to crack a smile.
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You've heard this album before then, but it's never sounded quite this crazed and pressed for time.
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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.
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'The Datsuns' is an album that could have been made in 1967, 1977 or 1987, but which, fortunately for them, was made in 2002.
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Their rehashed rawk riffage is relentlessly enthralling, but their beat-you-over-the-head scream-tactics lend themselves to a sludgy sameness that, by album's end, has worn its welcome pencil-thin.
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Retro rawk doesn't come much ballsier than this--or get much better.
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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.
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The Datsuns' biggest problem isn't the style of music they're playing, though. It's the sub-standard quality of their songwriting, the uninspired performances on here and the fundamental lack of willingness to stretch beyond the safe confines of their older brothers' record collections.
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DavidSDec 22, 2005If you're into pure rock and roll and amazing powerful riffs then it's outstanding.
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WilliamMSep 6, 2003FUCKING AWESOME, more great Kiwi Music
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Jen?Jun 1, 2003Bloody Briliant! Love it