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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 20 Ratings

  • Summary: American's favorite high school rockers have graduated and grown up, resulting in this, their fifth (and most mature) album to date.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. Alternative Press
    90
    A great party record, pop-metal to a splendid degree. [Jan 2003, p.84]
  2. Q Magazine
    80
    Their best yet. [May 2003, p.102]
  3. Blender
    80
    They're like the best party band at the best party you can imagine. [#11, p.130]
  4. Their songs, which at best have the dumb-fun appeal of a Joan Jett hit and at worst are forgettably rote, aren't laments or tirades but empowered commands.
  5. If this disc has a weakness, it's in the somewhat "samey" feel of a couple of the songs, but at just under 40 minutes it's no biggie.
  6. Uncut
    70
    Spend The Night emerges as the dumb-riffed album Courtney Love tried to make with Celebrity Skin. [May 2003, p.94]
  7. Make no mistake, Spend the Night defies any post-liberation role reversal debate: The album, both musically and lyrically, is so one-dimensional, it would be equally vapid at the hands of either sex.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. garys
    Dec 6, 2002
    10
    The donnas are a great band that bring punk rock back to the way it was
  2. JoanneG
    Apr 18, 2005
    10
    This is a must for every rock n roll lover. It will surly be a classic. Buy it!!
  3. MissKitten
    Dec 7, 2002
    10
    The Donnas keep getting better and better. They now sound like a true 70's rock band. More Kiss than The Ramones.
  4. Lestat
    Apr 30, 2003
    10
    Best cd i ever bought.. classic rock is back..
  5. MikeD
    May 1, 2003
    10
    T he Donnas Have Come Along Way,And Now It's Their Time To Shine!!"Go Bret A."No More Boy Bands There's To Many Now. Let The Girls T he Donnas Have Come Along Way,And Now It's Their Time To Shine!!"Go Bret A."No More Boy Bands There's To Many Now. Let The Girls "Rock-Out" Now.Remember Guy's "Lita Ford" Huh.? The Donnas Deliver Pure Hard Rock-n-Roll The Needs To Come Back To Main Stream "Rock" Spend The Night Album Proves This That They Can And Will Deliver What Has Been Missing For Some Time Long Over Due. Good Old "Rock-n-Roll" Collapse
  6. frankv
    Nov 13, 2002
    9
    Spend The Night is Rock and roll at it's best. Fun album fast and short.
  7. RedP
    Nov 14, 2002
    2
    Get their old records. This one is trying too hard; a real disappointment

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