Spend the Night (The Donnas album)

Occupation

• Vocals: Brett Anderson
• Electric Guitar: Allsion Robertson
• Bass: Maya Ford
• Drums: Torry Castellano

Spend the Night is the fifth studio album by the punk or hard rock band The Donnas. It was also the first to be released on a major label (Atlantic Records). In addition, it was the first CD that Billboard reached 200. In Europe, a version was released with a bonus track ("Big Rig " )

Singles

Single releases were "Take it Off", "Who invited You" and " Too Bad About Your Girl"

Style

"Spend the Night" sounds much harder than the previous albums, the pieces were rather simple. How to "Spend the Night" contains every song a guitar solo. Throughout contain the typical punk / hard rock instrumentation guitar, bass, drums.

Cover

On the cover of the four band members are seen in a wood-paneled, cluttered bedrooms, three of them lie or sit on the bed. Links above are in yellow at a slight angle to the band name, just below the album title. In the booklet, which is held in different yellow and orange tones, are more photos of the band included.

Success

The album reached number 62 in the U.S. Billboard 200

Reception

In laut.de which is the album rated negatively. A primary criticism that the songs are musically very varied. The style is characterized as " Dixie Chicks on electric guitar ." The conclusion of the review louder: "The Donnas but push yourself to an impressive 14 tracks and impressively show may be rock music in 2003 as boring. More than on the highway like that still work. Full speed ahead calls the drums through the whole album. Full speed into irrelevance call their song structures. In terms of wealth of variety there have these girls not so thick - at least because they are the Ramones still remained the same. "

A somewhat better criticism heard the CD at Plattentests.de who missed six out of ten: "With " Spend the night " put the four on their major debut an album that is nothing more than pleasing. [ ... ] Ultimately, it is the nonchalance and the punchy sound that makes some of the tracks to small hits. Because you forget to talk fast as average, the disc actually is. "

Markus Schleutermann of Rock Hard, however, praised the album, and was 8.5 out of ten points: " On second glance, the now adult ladies also give quite self-deprecating ( " I must have too many diet- cokes, I'm laughing at all your stupid jokes "). Musically they serve us playful presented Rock'n'Roll, the scores with much good humor, great solos and a lot more accurate hooks. [ ... ] For me, " Spend The Night" a prima Party plate, the rowdiness of Girlschool with the charm of Molly Ringwald ( " The Breakfast Club " ) links. "