BITCHIN’ - THE DONNAS
If it were 1987, “Bitchin’ ” would be a major label’s wet dream. It’d be supported with big-budget videos played endlessly on “Headbanger’s Ball,” and with it, the Donnas would score a key tour with Poison en route to their own headlining jaunt. It being 2007, the girls’ awesomely ridiculous Sunset Strip-era gang vocals and hammer on-laden soloing aren’t exactly going to deliver them the keys to Madison Square Garden. While superbly recorded and at times a hoot to crank (largely for the shameless rips of Kiss, Joan Jett and Def Leppard), “Bitchin”‘ is too light on hooks. Instead of three or four great potential singles, we get one in “Here for the Party” and a bunch that try really hard but ultimately fail to balance irony, nasty shredding and big choruses.
