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. E! Online
    100
    A most pleasurable guilty pleasure.
  2. 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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  3. Playlouder
    90
    Gleeful, glorious, and utterly unique.
  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. 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.
  7. Uncut
    80
    Their hedonistic sex-dance anthems go down a treat. [Apr 2003, p.103]
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  8. AllMusic
    80
    The results are goofy but undeniably exhilarating.
  9. 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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  10. Q Magazine
    80
    Pop doesn't get much more gloriously trashy than this. [Apr 2003, p.108]
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  11. 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.
  12. Stylus Magazine
    77
    All the songs sound almost exactly the same. I don’t care! It doesn’t matter! Just dance!
  13. Pitchfork
    76
    [Sounds] as much like playful garage-rock as cocky Europop.
  14. Urb
    70
    A high-spirited whoosh of urgent dance pop and groovy psychedelic bop. [Sep 2003, p.102]
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  15. 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.
  16. Spin
    67
    Funky like Fred Schneider and Barney Fife killin' it at karaoke. [Sep 2003, p.115]
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  17. Mojo
    60
    Ultimately, though, the resolutely rubbish recordings--distorted, trebly drum breaks, scratchy guitars, monotonous voices--and near-total absence of melody, might test your stamina for mindless entertainment. [May 2003, p.104]
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  18. Dot Music
    60
    Taken in three-minute doses, 'D-D-Don't Stop The Beat' sounds fantastic. Taken all at once, it's proof that too much fun can be hard to bear.
  19. Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
    58
    These Danes aren't tuned-in enough for stereotype play.

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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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