Palo Alto, California's The Donnas started out as a fast pop punk outfit on Lookout! Records but transitioned into a Millennial female hard rock answer to Kiss, The Ramones and The Runaways. The bands' fifth album Spend The Night, was also their most successful charting at # 62 on Billboards Top 200 chart. The Donnas delight in deliciously trashy fun with kick-filled songs about hooking-up with randos, getting high on the pot marijuana, drinking beer - they actually reference Bud Dry on one song - (FYI Bud Dry was the beer equivalent of Mötley Crüe) - and general rock and roll partying.
Guitarist Allison Robertson channels Ace Frehley, Keith Richards and Angus Young with relative ease and singer Brett Anderson is always convincing in her convictions.
Highlight include "Take Me To The Backseat", "It's On The Rocks", "Pass It Around" and "You Wanna Get Me High". Spend The Night also contains the bands two biggest hits; "Take It Off" which charted at # 17 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and #31 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. "Who Invited You" charted on Billboards Hot Singles Sales chart. Both songs have been featured in a bunch of movies and television shows. "Too Bad About Your Girl" while never a commercially released single, had a promo video that received a ton of airplay on MTV at the time. The track "Big Rig" is a vinyl-only exclusive track.
The cover art features the girls ready to Spend The Night in a wood-paneled bedroom filled with all manner of 80's artifacts; Atari 2600 cartridges, a Colecovision game system, 8-Tracks cartridges on a CRT old-school monitor and Freddy Kruger are also present for the slumber party.
The album is unpretentious, trashy rock n roll fun.
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