The Donnas - Gold Medal @ Score! Music Magazine

	The Donnas - Gold Medal
	Location	MTV Hits
	Initial Impression	Nice Fleetwood Mac/Abba, 70's style cover art.
Notable Lyric	"I may not be a man, but you're not one either" - "It Takes One To Know One"
Factoid	Gold Medal was produced by Butch Walker of Marvelous 3 fame, who's also worked with Bowling for Soup, SR-71 and American Hi-Fi.
Serve With	Heart, Blondie, The Pretenders, Pat Benatar, Garbage and Le Tigre to give them inspiration.
Comments	I really, REALLY wanted to like this album. I wanted to rock out in my car (and hope "Motormouth" was nowhere to be seen), crush it to my chest in adoration and herald it to my friends as my new current fave. However, I seem unable to conjure that sort of enthusiasm about The Donnas 6th effort. Opener "I Don't Want to Know" screams Cheap Trick, but more so I 'm reminded of The Runaways and Damone. The girls are damned good at the pop radio format, no doubt, but that's the problem. The majority of the songs are more templates than genuine compositions; which would otherwise be acceptable given their age, but The Donnas are seasoned professionals and it 's time to for them to put the formulas away and find their own voices.
URL	www.thedonnas.com
Reviewer	Siren Cristy (11/04)