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Which they just might...cuz this 2001 album chronicles the highs and lows of being on tour and on the prowl with songs like “40 Boys in 40 Nights.” It also captures the full emergence of Allison Robertson as a guitar goddess, joining Angus Young as an officiant at the marriage of Gibson and Marshall. It’s no wonder, then, that this album led to The Donnas’ signing with Atlantic...these women-no-longer-girls are ready for the major leagues. Includes an LP-sized insert (instead of the original’s CD booklet) featuring added band commentary. 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Production by Steve and Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross adds a little bite to the songs, but they’re already showing their teeth - the wannabe boyfriend putdowns are as ferocious (“A boston baked bean is the size of your head\/I heard you even wet your bed”) as they are funny, and the libidos are, um, a Mötley Crüe cover (“Too Fast for Love”), but The Donnas’ songs are better. Remastered for vinyl by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, and reissued complete with a 4-page insert featuring the original insert plus band commentary. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Real Gone Music","offers":[{"title":"LP - Purple","offer_id":50402301739339,"sku":"2143892","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Get_Skintight_16fcd8ff_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726539802"},{"product_id":"spend-the-night-expanded","title":"Spend the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeaturing the singles ‘Take It Off’ and ‘Who Invited You’, this expanded edition of features five bonus tracks; ‘Hyperactive’, ‘Rock 'N' Roll Machine’, ‘Mama's Boy’, ‘Play My Game’ and ‘Backstage’, the latter taken from the soundtrack to the remake of \u003cem\u003eFreaky Friday\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVocalist Brett Anderson, guitarist Allison Robertson, bassist Maya Ford and drummer Torry Castellano formed The Donnas in May 1993, adopting the respective stage names Donna A, Donna R, Donna F and Donna C, putting out their first, independently released album in 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking inspiration from the punky pop rock of the Ramones and The Runaways, mixed with the classic rock of Bachman-Turner Overdrive and KISS, by 2002, they had come to the attention of Atlantic Records, who proclaimed, “The Donnas spit out idiosyncratic pop-punk anthems of rock ‘n’ roll fantasy and teenage kicks with plenty of goofy putdowns and tough-attitude posturing, largely fuelled by their life on the road.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd if you were in any doubt, they were, \"Inspired by AC\/DC, the Sex Pistols and Madonna, Donna A’s lipstick-snarl vocals pummel Donna C’s and Donna F’s furious chug and Donna R’s early Guns n’ Roses guitar wall.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hne Recordings Ltd","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50413506330955,"sku":"2191515","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Clear with Canary and Pink Splatter","offer_id":56262806962507,"sku":"R9709-4813","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Screenshot_2024-03-22_at_15.04.21_da5aa122_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1726674360"},{"product_id":"message-from-the-donnas-the-early-singles","title":"Early Singles 1995-1999","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow, at last, with the full cooperation of the band, Real Gone Music releases the first- ever vinyl retrospective of their early days recordings for (mostly) the Lookout! label featuring 14 non- LP sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost all of these songs, from their first single \"High School Yum Yum,\" to their REO cover \"Keep On Loving You,\" haven't been on vinyl since their original release if at all; rare photos and memorabilia plus track-by track commentary and liner notes (on the enclosed insert) by all four band members make Early Singles 1995-1999 truly indispensable for Donnas fans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Real Gone Music","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50442021962059,"sku":"2174485","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Gold LP","offer_id":50442021339467,"sku":"2012367","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/418467231621_800_2f0c11c3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726990413"},{"product_id":"gold-medal","title":"Gold Medal","description":"\u003cp\u003eFamously formed in 8th grade for a school talent show, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Donnas\u003c\/strong\u003e began as a self-styled co-ed answer to \u003cem\u003eThe Ramones\u003c\/em\u003e, each member taking the first name of Donna (as opposed to the last name of Ramone), and playing gleefully unapologetic, pop-punk paeans to adolescent alienation and hedonism from a decidedly female perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut by the time of 2004’s \u003cem\u003eGold Medal\u003c\/em\u003e, their sixth album and second for the major label Atlantic, the group has clearly—dare we say it? - matured. With the notable exception of the single (and career highlight) \"\u003cem\u003eFall Behind Me\u003c\/em\u003e,\" \u003cem\u003eGold Medal\u003c\/em\u003e marks a move away from the Donnas’ harder\/faster ethos towards a more polished (acoustic guitars…whaaat?) pop sound veering towards ‘70s psychedelia under the helm of Avril Lavigne producer Butch Walker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd you can tell it from the album’s graphics, which flash vintage, Peter Max-esque squiggles on the front cover and feature a faux black light poster inside (which we have reproduced for this reissue along with the original printed inner sleeve). The result was an album that lead vocalist Brett Anderson a.k.a Donna A. deems her favorite, and one that stands as probably the band’s crowning artistic achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Real Gone Music","offers":[{"title":"Gold | LP","offer_id":50448770466123,"sku":"1091031","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Gold","offer_id":50982973833547,"sku":"2236465","price":47.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7ee749e8-9572-4dd7-aec0-657b5c35487a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727095706"},{"product_id":"spend-the-night-2","title":"Spend the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eReissue of The Donnas’ major label debut for the Atlantic label, where they went after recording a quartet of classics for Lookout! 2002’s\u003ci\u003e Spend the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNight\u003c\/i\u003e was by far the band’s most popular album, hitting 62 on the Billboard charts, but it wasn’t just the major label distribution mojo that upped the sales. This record doesn’t have a dud on it, and boasts such Donnas devastators as “Who Invited You,” “Take It Off,” “You Wanna Get Me High,” and “Pass It Around.” Indeed, with one killer hook after another, the big mystery about this record is, why didn’t it make them superstars? 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Owing no small debt\nto the Ramones (all the way down\nto their sharing of “anonymous”\nnames), the girls gleefully turn the\nsex, drugs, and rock and roll dials\nup to 11, except this time it’s the\nfemales that are looking for some\naction (“I wanna huff all night” and\n“I’m gonna get in his pants tonight” are two representative lyrical lines). And\nfor our Real Gone reissue of this classic, you are getting The Donnas raw and\nunfiltered...that’s right, Real Gone Music actually scored the original quarter-inch 2-track\nmaster tape to the album, so you’re getting an all-analog version of this punk-\nrock masterpiece. 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Stylus reckoned that The Donnas were, \"\u003cstrong\u003eincapable of playing in anything but the key of badass\u003c\/strong\u003e,\" while Rolling Stone reckoned that the band's \"\u003cstrong\u003ewailing on solos that would make AC\/DC's Angus Young proud\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCD3 completes all of the recordings released by the quartet between 2002 and 2005 and adds raucous live sets recorded in Boston in 2003 plus three tracks recorded for XFM, along with the single B-sides ‘Hyperactive’, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Machine’, ‘Mama's Boy’, ‘Play My Game’ and ‘Done With You’, plus acoustic versions of ‘Fall Behind Me’ and ‘Don’t Break Me Down’. 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Now, by popular demand, and after years of pursuing the rights, we are thrilled to announce that we are releasing their last studio album, \u003cem\u003eBitchin’,\u003c\/em\u003e in an expanded, newly annotated, and newly remastered edition! This 2007 release was put out by The Donnas’ own Purple Feather label, and marks a return to the girls’ glam metal and punk roots after the classic rock leanings of Gold Medal…they’ve escaped the major label machine, and are ready to have a good time! Singalong songs like “What Do I Have to Do” and “Don’t Wait Up for Me” have definitely entered The Donnas’ canon, and tunes like “Save Me” confirm that this band’s ability to set a hook in a chorus remains unabated. For this first-ever reissue, we’ve rounded up an entire side of bonus tracks, including the two songs (“Randi” and a cover of “Safety Dance”) that were only available on the vinyl release, a track (“New Kid in School”) that was previously available only as a download, two outtakes (“We Own the Night” and “She’s Out of Control”) that showed up on the Greatest Hits Vol. 16 comp, and a track that only came out in Japan (“Can’t Keep It a Secret”). 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