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DONNA SUMMER

reviews

albums

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

1987

All Systems Go

2.8

mixed reception

polarized reaction

36 reviews →

1991

Mistaken Identity

2.8

mixed reception

polarized reaction

24 reviews →

1996

I'm a Rainbow

2.6

mixed reception

mixed reaction

5 reviews →

REVIEW

REVIEW

All Systems Go

1

2.8

London, UK

October 16, 1987

Yet another album that goes in one ear and out the other without rustling the aspidistra.

1987

All Systems Go

4

2.8

Newport News, VA, USA

October 18, 1987

Even with its lulls, "All Systems Go" is a spicy date with a lady who knows how to twirl the night around her finger.

1987

All Systems Go

2

2.8

St. Petersburg, FL, USA

October 18, 1987

When the album is not suffering from blatantly bland material, it's being burdened by the maddeningly mechanical production of synthesizer monger Harold Faltermeyer.

1987

All Systems Go

4

2.8

Detroit, MI, USA

October 19, 1987

Her singing is fresh and youthful.

1987

All Systems Go

4

2.8

Chicago, IL, USA

October 22, 1987

22

Succeeds almost single-handedly on the strength of of the album's first single, "Dinner with Gershwin."

1987

All Systems Go

1

1/4

2.8

Ottawa, ON, Canada

October 23, 1987

This just might be too lame for Muzak. Elevators could be insulted by it.

1987

All Systems Go

4

3/4

2.8

New York, NY, USA

October 25, 1987

Her best work to date.

1987

All Systems Go

3

2.8

New York, NY, USA

October 26, 1987

13

Summer is a victim of her own talent in a way: A performer as good as she is generates high – perhaps unfairly high – expectations.

1987

All Systems Go

2

2.8

Middleton, UK

November 13, 1987

A mediocre effort.

1987

All Systems Go

1

2.8

Allentown, PA, USA

November 21, 1987

Apparently the systems were never debugged.

1987

BIRD'S EYE VIEW

BIRD'S EYE VIEW

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