The Donnas “The Donnas” 1997/2023. Reissue, “natural w/black swirl” vinyl, Real Gone Music. The Donnas is the all-girl punk band’s debut LP, very much in the spirit of the Ramones: 60’s pop inspired, short and snappy with occasional overt references to juvenile drug use (“Huff All Night” and “Everybody’s Smoking Cheeba“) and simple counting (on “We Don’t Go” they count to two vs the Ramones more complex counting to four). Add in a hearty dose of The Runaways and you get an album that is fun, a bit silly but super-hard rocking. I believe The Donnas were all still in or just finishing high school when they recorded the album; according to Wiki they took off a week their senior year to tour in Japan. My top tracks off The Donnas are the opener “Hey, I’m Gonna Be Your Girl, the aforementioned “Huff All Night,” “Teenage Runaway,” “Friday Fun” and the sole cover on the record, “Drive In,” written by Beach Boys’ Ben Wilson. While it’s a must-have in the evolution of punk, especially for all-women bands, the LP does get repetitive, with a lot of the songs sounding almost identical.