In the US, it was the group's second and last number-one single on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, where it spent two weeks.

"[2] In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton viewed it as "lyrically unique".

[3] Paul Lester from Melody Maker said, "The 49'ers are the real deal when it comes to all this Italian disco chatter.

It's utterly inhuman, "Don't..." follows the one mandatory all-robotic pulse and android sighs, entirely free of those hideous bids for "authenticity — the grafted-on gruff "soulful" vocals and homely house piano — that made "Ride on Time" such painful foot-tapping.

It uses all the tricks of the Italian house formula in order to produce an urgent good-time track.