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The
Donnas
Spend the Night
label: Atlantic
released: 10.22.02
our score: 3.0 out of 5.0
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While
Spend The Night may be the major label debut for the
Donnas, that does not mean that the former indie-supergirls have
cleaned up their act one bit…which may be a good thing.
The
Palo-Alto quartet - Donnas A., R., C. and F - who have been compared
to the Runaways more times than they care to remember, have finally
outlasted the novelty stamp that followed them for their initial
four releases on
Lookout Records (The Donnas Turn 21, Get Skintight,
Donnas and American Teenage Rock-N-Roll Machine).
The
band {(real names: Brett Anderson (vocals); Allison Robertson
(guitar), Maya Ford (bass) and Torry Castellano (drums)} are finally
garnering the mainstream success they acted as if they never cared
about (mainly by playing along as MTV darlings and frolicking
with the cast of the reality series "Surf Girls"), and
they did score a bit of a hit earlier in the year with the not-so-subtle
"Take It Off." It is perky song, but not far from the
back seat, party-hard lingo the girls have been banging out for
some time now.
The
former musical comparisons to the Ramones have now been replaced
with licks that closely resemble early KISS (Dressed To Kill/Destroyer
era) and Anderson does at times come off as a Paul Stanley wanna
be (that is…if Stanley were a female). Though the lyrical
atmosphere is still sexually charged, due in part to the fact
that bassist Maya Ford is the main songwriter, her subject matter
is getting a bit stale (e.g. boy crazy and horny). But Stay
The Night is still fun and the girls do have some valid aptitude
(especially Robertson and her infectious power chords). However,
the Donna's may suffer if the narrowness of the lyrics is not
expanded in the future.
But,
who knows? The overwhelming sexual innuendoes in KISS songs never
hurt their career.
26-Jul-2003
9:25 AM
If you
liked Spend the Night...
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| Tracklist:
1.
It's on the Rocks
2. Take It Off
3. Who Invited You
4. All Messed Up
5. Dirty Denim
6. You Wanna Get Me High
7. I Don't Care (So There)
8. Pass It Around
9. Too Bad About Your Girl
10. Not the One
11. Please Don't Tease
12. Take Me to the Backseat
13. 5 O'Clock in the Morning
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