"Rock 'n' Roll Machine"

The Donnas
(Lookout!, 1998)

The Ramones reborn as Mötley Crüe-loving teenage Valley girls smokin' cheeba, dodging curfew, looking for some quick 'n' easy satisfaction, ditching class at Rock and Roll High School, and pissing on a new decade's worth of sacred cows. Dig Donna A's delivery: snotty, indifferent, shouting down the car radio in the parking lot. Just as priceless: the girl-group-era historical correctness of its being ghostwritten by a thirtysomething-year-old guy.

-- Carly Carioli