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The Donnas Turn 21

EMAILPRINTby The Donnas

The Donnas reviews
71
7.0 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 15 critic reviews
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Based on 7 votes
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Album Info

Label: Lookout!

Release Date: 23 January 2001

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Rock, Pop

Summary

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

91

Entertainment Weekly

Armed with guitar-driven ditties as tight as their leather pants and lyrics sharper than those of artists twice their age, the newly legal pop-punk saviors dole out another dose of Ramones-style dope. [1/19/2001, p.86]

90

Splendid

It is infectious in the best and most viral sense of the word -- the songs get under your skin and thrash around.

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80

Magnet

They've tempered the cheerleader quality of their vocals, and the breakneck pace has slowed down just enough for you to discover that, somewhere along the line, they learned to play and sing. [#48, p.85]

80

Alternative Press

Their strongest and most distinctive effort to date. [#151, p.71]

80

Village Voice

A punk-rock attitude and metal licks are all that are necessary for these four chicks to show the world what they want. Turn 21 is way heavier than the bubble-yum power-chord punch-punk they started out with—you know, the kind of three-minute tunes that came so easily when you were rehearsing after school for your first big show. But when they want to, the Donnas can still pull it all out and go Mano.

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70

Neumu.net

The Bay Area punk-rockers mix early Ramones with '80s metal.

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70

New Musical Express

The Donnas are utterly convincing...

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70

Sonicnet

While they've evolved into a band that can actually, like, play more than a handful of chords, they wisely stick with what they know best -- trim, fast-paced, crunch-guitar-filled songs about sex and partying.

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60

Spin

The sound misses the arenarific pump of 1999's Redd Kross-produced Get Skintight, and with that album's move from junk-punk to semi-pro metal now complete, the talent gap in the group has started to glare. [2/2001, p.108]

60

Q Magazine

The Donnas have reached the legal drinking age in their native California, even if their foxy glam/punk-rock remains fixated on teenage preoccupations...

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60

Rolling Stone

The quartet's fourth album is interchangeable with its third, maintaining the pop polish that made Get Skintight (1999) a sugar-buzz classic

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60

All Music Guide

Face it, if The Donnas Turn 21 sounded as shamelessly sexy as the lyrics and tarted-up images, it'd be a hell of a little rock & roll record. Instead, this inspires feelings of guilt instead of guilty pleasure.

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60

Wall of Sound

The Donnas do what they do just fine, but, four albums into their career, you can't help but want to see a little bit of growth in place of arrested development.

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49

Pitchfork

Every song drips with bawdy attempts at sexually shocking the listener. But just as Vince Neil screaming "girls, girls, girls" and name-checking strip bars is unlikely to whip a woman into a frenzy of amour, the Donnas attempt to titillate and fail miserably.

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38

Spin Cycle

Like the group's previous records, "Turn 21" sticks to a formula based in familiarity—so familiar that one questions the value of this recording.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Fred Z gave it a 10:
I really enjoy the type of music on The Donnas CD. Its fast paced and slightly hard rock.

Lisa M gave it an 8:
Okay so the lyrics are a little if-y and kinda generic but it's the absolute best girl power chick music awesome shit ever!! I LOVE it.

SLEDGEHAMMER gave it a 0:
pure trash to te max. our society is in a world of hurt with bands like this.

Ann Dred gave it a 1:
Although its very cool that girls show power, the lyrics of this cd are...less than deep. And their live preformance??? Don't even ask.

Johannes M gave it a 10:
It's the best motherfucking CD I have seen in a damn long time...

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