The DonnasBest The Donnas Albums Ranked
4.9
Avg Score
7
Opinions
7
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 7 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated The Donnas's catalog across 7 albums from 7 opinions, with an overall average of 4.9/10. The top-rated The Donnas album is The Donnas Turn 21 (2001) with a 4.9/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Gold Medal and Spend the Night. The discography on Wavelength spans 2001 to 2007.
Gold Medal
“On their sixth album, The Donnas go for the sometimes dreaded "mature" approach by emphasizing craft, dropping their "Donna" tags in favor of their given names, and extending their track lengths.”
The Donnas Turn 21
“The Donnas have always been a better gimmick than a band. When they broke onto the scene, they had all kinds of *Spin*-worthy selling points: they were teenage girls still in high school; they all wore the same t-shirts, emblazoned in busty 3-D with their "Donna initials"; and they played music that was always able to be succinctly summarized as "band *x* meets band *y*." People fawned over the Do”
Bitchin'
“The eighth (!) album from the veteran punk band offers plenty of indicators that it would hearld the return of the fun and bratty Donnas of years past. Instead, it sounds like a half-hearted compromise between what the group was and what the group wants to become.”
Spend the Night
“Reviewing music by all-female groups can be a bit of a tightrope walk, especially for male writers. Criticism is often misconstrued, and the mere mention that a group is comprised solely of women can generate an insatiable barrage of hateful e-mails-- ask any writer who's ever tackled a Sleater-Kinney album. I wanted to approach The Donnas without making the obvious "[70s metal group] fronted by [”
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