Here's a simple fact, this album, contained at least 6 songs that received regular air play, Sharona, Good Girl's Don't, Selfish, Frustrated, Oh Tara and Heartbeat, who can do that anymore? just a tremendous debut album and a great band, Doug Fieger, thank you!
Every critic hates this album. Why? Because they had the nerve to pose like the holy Beatles in the album photos, even the Lennon pose of legs spread shoulder width by the singer! Sacrilege! I love this band. ShironnA # 1 song in 79!!
Wow. I totally remember tucking my leather tie into my shirt back in the early 80s. It wasn't fashion. It was just keeping your tie out of your food. 1979-1983 -- best five years EVER.
This is the band that made me learn to play and write music. Burton is seriously underrated as a player. His solo on My Sharona is as good as any ever recorded.
Spot on! Berton Averre inspired me so much, as an 11-year old who had just started learning guitar in 1979, the year "My Sharona" became a worldwide hit, and I remember spending so much time trying to study that unbelievable guitar solo, the needle of the record player going back and forth to the beginning of the break, instead of doing my secondary school homework. Too many good memories, that band was a vital part of my life in 1979-80....the second album, "But the little girls understand",another underrated gem....The Knack!!!!
Absolutely!! I've been playing drums since about three years before this album came out. And while the drumming of Bruce Gary is fucking top notch, It's the guitar playing of Burton Averre that blew my mind. I've been playing in bands all of these years and I can't believe how many times I've had to turn my guitar players onto the solo in My Sharona. It seems that because it was a "pop song" people didn't really listen to the nuts and bolts of it. That solo is one of the greatest ever composed.
Call it chicken delight But the flesh is on the bone and she ain't givin' you a bite. HA! I listened to these guys as a kid and loved 'em back then. I had no idea how suggestive some of the lyrics were. These guys kicked ass! Ohh I wanna hold you Ohh and bend and fold you Heh. My God!
Great song. Listen to Berton Averre rips on the leads and fills. Bruce Gary was a fantastic drummer and Prescott Niles on bass was solid. Add Doug Fieger and you had an exceptionally good band. "Get the Knack " = the summer of 1979.
Creativity, Delivery, and Energy, and Talent! This band was awesome! All their music is worth listening to and the tightness of this band was unmatched. The media started putting them in a catagory which did not recognize them for their musical talent and that was unfortunate. Thanks for the post!
From one "Knack fan" to another thank you for posting this great song. I love the Knack I have seen them a number of times since 1979, and have met them, very nice approachable guys. Certainly one of rocks most un-appreciated bands that certainly deserved much more respect from the powers that be in the rock world. RIP Bruce Gary.
I'll Never forget this coming out in 79 when I was 12/13 and taking it to our local skating ring to play. I think it's a Power Pop Masterpiece. Also the Greatest Teen Angst Sexual album EVER!
Michael Curry funny, my story is the same as yours. I was 12 and being a young rink rat, I knew all of the guards, they were all high school hockey players. my brother was 5 years older and a hockey player, so I had no problems bringing my records in to play, this being one of them. one guard would end up playing the records. I would walk right into the dj booth and give him my records. off of memory, some records would be the cars debut, van Halen I, II, dirty deeds, and the knack.
Brings back a fantastic time in my life. Not just The Knack. But also...Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Elvis Costello, Devo, The Boomtown Rats, Gary Numan, Blondie, Cheap Trick, The Ramones, The English Beat, The Specials, The Pretenders, Madness, The Cramps, The Buggles, Ian Dury, Split Enz, Joe "King" Carasco, The Untouchables, The Producers, The Vapors, Squeeze, Translator, The Motors, The Undertones, The Waitresses...oh, I've only got so much room!
This song Frustrated is almost as good as My Sharona and seriously underrated! Most of the meaning went over my fourteen year head when it was released, but what power and energy these guys had! RIP Doug...and thank you for giving us some of the best music of our time.
This was the last song on the Get The Knack debut album, and I can still remember having that feeling of, "oh man that's the last song" you really wanted to hear more. That is the true measure of a classic album! RIP Doug, and thank you for the music.
I remember in 1979 hearing this song after My Sharona,Good Girls Don't & She's So Selfish had already been getting air play. That morning I was like "oh man I gotta buy this album!" which I did that day and it has been an absolute favorite of mine since that day! The Get The Knack album cover is framed on my wall right now! RIP Doug, thank you for the music. Great talent, who will be missed.
Wow! A phenomenal and very cohesive Power Pop band! Criminally underrated and vilified! Maybe music historians will look back at The Knack, and give them the proper respect and adulation they so richly deserve.
I just did the same thing! Both versions are fantastic!! Now, I have to finally buy that Knack album after all these years....I guess it's just one of "These days" ☺🎄☃🎅🏻
I remember getting "Get The Knack" when it came out back in the day. I was about 11 or 12. All was well until my mother started listening to the lyrics. One day the record was gone. Thanks for the video!
Every Knack song's about blue balls, a fine thing to write about. This is very interesting music. You can hear all the instruments. All the cymbals. Even the bass. The fact the bass is a Rickenbacker and the guitar dudes have the most awesome hair ever just sends this song over the top.
Damn good band !!! They should have been much bigger than they were. I hope RUclips will succeed in providing the outlet for them to receive the credit they are actually due.
I've never heard a band better able to replicate their recordings live.better than these guys. Of course it was designed this way - they basically recorded the songs the exact same way they would play them in the clubs around LA. So what you hear on the record is exactly what you would hear live.
Holy Crap! Sixth grade...roller skating...freaking loved this song...knew it was perverted, used to do the whole "air guitar" thing during the entire song. Probably looked like the biggest dork on the planet...didn't give a shit! Great song...great post!
I was 10 when My Sharona was the opening song of a thriller tv series on the italian TV. That song thrilled me for a long time, but Get The Knack was my first rock LP anyway. The gorgeus girl on the cover visited a lot of my teenage dreams... ;) RIP Doug, great rocker, great voice!
Me gusta el rock de esta banda...es muy cool!!..mucha onda el ritmo y sus guitarras, aunque hayan sido solo un par de temas conocidos, fué muy buena banda...me gusta mucho su música...se nota que son de la vieja escuela!! banda de culto
XCLNT! I have this 45 ( this is the flip side to "My Sharona") one of my ALL time FAVES! thanx 4 sharing (now I have to pop the cd into my car cd player!) :)
Bruce Gary was a regular visitor to the Los Angeles Beatlefest Beatles conventions. Even had a chance to get his photo and talk with him at my last one in 2000. He sadly passed away a few years ago. He is the one that wrote their number one hit 'My Sharona'
I was 18,went to a party one night,stoned of course,in the fall of 79,walked in and this guy who owned the house where the party was had this "knack" album and started playin it,and i said,holy fuck,what is that?i thought it was a live band,lol.I went out the next day and bought the 8track,deafened myself"literally" listenin to it in my car via mindblower speakers .Here i am wearing hearing aids now but dont have no regrets .
Doug makes plenty of sounds in this song, but my favorite is the "whimper" at 3:17. It perfectly conveys the emotion of what "she" does to him. So awesome!
Great album that still sound fresh today. What was terrific about this LP was what the songs said...basically a no holds barred look at the trials and tribulations of teen romance/sex through the eyes of a horny teenage male...and it hit the nail on the head. Was 16 when this came out.Wish I could go back to that era.
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This whole album was awesome. I would play it over and over, knew every song word for word
Bruce Gary R.I.P. He was an awesome drummer.
I agree so underrated. Look what he did with Yiur number or your name The guy had a knack (no pun intended ) for creating great fills in every song.
I had forgotten how much this damn tune rocks. Lots of energy in the video too. RIP Doug!
What a band ! Doug, you are truly missed.
Here's a simple fact, this album, contained at least 6 songs that received regular air play, Sharona, Good Girl's Don't, Selfish, Frustrated,
Oh Tara and Heartbeat, who can do that anymore? just a tremendous debut album and a great band, Doug Fieger, thank you!
Every critic hates this album. Why? Because they had the nerve to pose like the holy Beatles in the album photos, even the Lennon pose of legs spread shoulder width by the singer! Sacrilege! I love this band. ShironnA # 1 song in 79!!
Musically it’s a great album, but it’s not very good lyrically.
Very, Very, TALENTED group of musicians...😀😀😀😊😊☺☺😎😎
Wow. I totally remember tucking my leather tie into my shirt back in the early 80s. It wasn't fashion. It was just keeping your tie out of your food. 1979-1983 -- best five years EVER.
Agreed!!!
This is the band that made me learn to play and write music. Burton is seriously underrated as a player. His solo on My Sharona is as good as any ever recorded.
So very true, amazing guitarist!
The uncut album version is one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.
agreed. the album version is nothing short of blistering.
Spot on! Berton Averre inspired me so much, as an 11-year old who had just started learning guitar in 1979, the year "My Sharona" became a worldwide hit, and I remember spending so much time trying to study that unbelievable guitar solo, the needle of the record player going back and forth to the beginning of the break, instead of doing my secondary school homework. Too many good memories, that band was a vital part of my life in 1979-80....the second album, "But the little girls understand",another underrated gem....The Knack!!!!
Absolutely!! I've been playing drums since about three years before this album came out. And while the drumming of Bruce Gary is fucking top notch, It's the guitar playing of Burton Averre that blew my mind. I've been playing in bands all of these years and I can't believe how many times I've had to turn my guitar players onto the solo in My Sharona. It seems that because it was a "pop song" people didn't really listen to the nuts and bolts of it. That solo is one of the greatest ever composed.
R.I.P. Doug Feiger. Thank you for the music.
Call it chicken delight
But the flesh is on the bone and she ain't givin' you a bite.
HA!
I listened to these guys as a kid and loved 'em back then. I had no idea how suggestive some of the lyrics were. These guys kicked ass!
Ohh I wanna hold you
Ohh and bend and fold you
Heh. My God!
Same!! I used to rollerskate around in my basement listening to this at 8 years old!! But I still think they’re a very underrated band overall!!!
great album, all hits, bruce gary is awesome on that record, it's sad he is gone. RIP bruce
Great song. Listen to Berton Averre rips on the leads and fills. Bruce Gary was a fantastic drummer and Prescott Niles on bass was solid. Add Doug Fieger and you had an exceptionally good band.
"Get the Knack " = the summer of 1979.
Thank you Bruce Gary.
this song fucking rocks plain and simple
Creativity, Delivery, and Energy, and Talent! This band was awesome! All their music is worth listening to and the tightness of this band was unmatched. The media started putting them in a catagory which did not recognize them for their musical talent and that was unfortunate. Thanks for the post!
The autentic rock band !!!!
Thanks for all the great tunes Doug!
From one "Knack fan" to another thank you for posting this great song. I love the Knack I have seen them a number of times since 1979, and have met them, very nice approachable guys. Certainly one of rocks most un-appreciated bands that certainly deserved much more respect from the powers that be in the rock world. RIP Bruce Gary.
I'll Never forget this coming out in 79 when I was 12/13 and taking it to our local skating ring to play. I think it's a Power Pop Masterpiece. Also the Greatest Teen Angst Sexual album EVER!
Michael Curry funny, my story is the same as yours. I was 12 and being a young rink rat, I knew all of the guards, they were all high school hockey players. my brother was 5 years older and a hockey player, so I had no problems bringing my records in to play, this being one of them. one guard would end up playing the records. I would walk right into the dj booth and give him my records. off of memory, some records would be the cars debut, van Halen I, II, dirty deeds, and the knack.
Brings back a fantastic time in my life. Not just The Knack. But also...Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Elvis Costello, Devo, The Boomtown Rats, Gary Numan, Blondie, Cheap Trick, The Ramones, The English Beat, The Specials, The Pretenders, Madness, The Cramps, The Buggles, Ian Dury, Split Enz, Joe "King" Carasco, The Untouchables, The Producers, The Vapors, Squeeze, Translator, The Motors, The Undertones, The Waitresses...oh, I've only got so much room!
Don’t forget about Donnie Iris.
Haters suck it. Awesome song. So sorry to hear of Doug's passing saw them for the last time around 7 years back and was still awesome.
This album was more than good. A fucking perfect pop record. One of my fucking favorites.
We miss Bruce and Doug terribly. R.I.P.
This song Frustrated is almost as good as My Sharona and seriously underrated! Most of the meaning went over my fourteen year head when it was released, but what power and energy these guys had! RIP Doug...and thank you for giving us some of the best music of our time.
This was the last song on the Get The Knack debut album, and I can still remember having that feeling of, "oh man that's the last song" you really wanted to hear more. That is the true measure of a classic album! RIP Doug, and thank you for the music.
I can play this album anytime and not tire of it....and it's a helluva jam on the drums!
This has been one of my main Themes for the past two painful years. Praying to finally see the end of the storm very soon.
Best concert ever, Seattle 1979!
RIP, doug!! much love and thanks for your work, and its undue influence on my misspent youth.
Great song and band. RIP Doug Fieger.
Brilliant album, Very underated. Rest In Peace Doug
I remember in 1979 hearing this song after My Sharona,Good Girls Don't & She's So Selfish had already been getting air play. That morning I was like "oh man I gotta buy this album!" which I did that day and it has been an absolute favorite of mine since that day! The Get The Knack album cover is framed on my wall right now! RIP Doug, thank you for the music. Great talent, who will be missed.
Wow! A phenomenal and very cohesive Power Pop band! Criminally underrated and vilified! Maybe music historians will look back at The Knack, and give them the proper respect and adulation they so richly deserve.
The best of the 80’s for sure! What a ROCKEN band!!!
The Knack, Blondie and The Cars....1978 Radio Punk Rock (We didn't call it New Wave yet)
Loved Dave Grohl’s cover so I had to check out the original.
Same, lol. What a great song! Loved Dave’s version too. 🤘🏻👍🏻
Same!!
I just did the same thing!
Both versions are fantastic!!
Now, I have to finally buy that Knack album after all these years....I guess it's just one of "These days" ☺🎄☃🎅🏻
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Me 2
THE KNACK! I was there and feeling your music back in the day. RIP Doug.
I remember getting "Get The Knack" when it came out back in the day. I was about 11 or 12. All was well until my mother started listening to the lyrics. One day the record was gone.
Thanks for the video!
lol
That’s so funny! 🤣😂
Double Frustration
She probably kept it for herself!!!
R.I.P. Doug
Wendy Kemler when doug die??????
ポップコン thank you.
Listening to these guys in 2021, RIP Doug
Huge fan of the KNACK... never thought they were a one hit wonder... enjoyed the first whole LP. Still listen to it all the time.
liveclassictunes not a one hit wonder
They’re a two hit wonder
This was always my favorite song from
The Knack.
RIP Doug
Cupertino, Ca.
This was on the flip side of my Good Girls Don't 45. I think I still have it.
Freakin champions What a great band!
Every Knack song's about blue balls, a fine thing to write about. This is very interesting music. You can hear all the instruments. All the cymbals. Even the bass. The fact the bass is a Rickenbacker and the guitar dudes have the most awesome hair ever just sends this song over the top.
b/c they're written about desire ... from a teenage boys mind.
Teen angst at its finest.
Wish when I was listening to this in 1979, I was hearing something really special, man, what talent!!!
Love this style of music.
Bruce Grey is amazing
RIP, Doug Fieger!
This was always my favorite track off the lp.
Grew up listening to this band. What a great era for ROCK!
So ahead of their time.
Pop punk..
word. still in regular rotation here!
My parents bought me this album for Christmas....i was 11....lol.
I played it constantly. I still have it.
Have it on regular rotation on spotify!
My 3rd favoirte Knack song done perfectly!!! There's nothing Gay about it. These guys kicked ass back then!!!
I can't believe I'm a 37yo. guitarist/music fan, and just now discovered these guys!!! Other than my sherona, I'd never heard the rest...WOW :D
Damn good band !!! They should have been much bigger than they were. I hope RUclips will succeed in providing the outlet for them to receive the credit they are actually due.
i love watching doug during the last 1:20 of this song. so much fun.
Great 80's band loved them then Love them now!
I had this album, and specifically remember this song. R.I.P. Doug Fieger
I've never heard a band better able to replicate their recordings live.better than these guys. Of course it was designed this way - they basically recorded the songs the exact same way they would play them in the clubs around LA. So what you hear on the record is exactly what you would hear live.
Their BEST Song!!!
Doug, My Rockstar!
Holy Crap! Sixth grade...roller skating...freaking loved this song...knew it was perverted, used to do the whole "air guitar" thing during the entire song. Probably looked like the biggest dork on the planet...didn't give a shit!
Great song...great post!
oh my GAWD! my high school years wrapped up in 5 minutes.
LOVE THIS BAND XD
I forgot about this song! Thanks!!
Great Video... I had never seen this before! Thanks for posting!
Never was there ever an American band that sounded so British invasion as these guys do.
That's a great remark. Greetings from Great Britain.
Smithereens I'd add to that list...
I love Niles's bass! It's super sexy and you can hear it!!!!!!
simply the best...
I love this. I remember getting this LP for my 12th birthday in 1979.
I was 10 when My Sharona was the opening song of a thriller tv series on the italian TV. That song thrilled me for a long time, but Get The Knack was my first rock LP anyway.
The gorgeus girl on the cover visited a lot of my teenage dreams... ;)
RIP Doug, great rocker, great voice!
Doug left the world far too soon..
Been a fan since the SKY played around Detroit..
Me gusta el rock de esta banda...es muy cool!!..mucha onda el ritmo y sus guitarras, aunque hayan sido solo un par de temas conocidos, fué muy buena banda...me gusta mucho su música...se nota que son de la vieja escuela!! banda de culto
She gonna take you by the hand...lead you to the promised land..
Great stuff
Super awesome bad ass!!!!!!
They did a fantastic version of Heartbeat by Buddy Holly
I totally agree great song after My Sharona
They nicked the arrangement from Humble Pie.
Junior High....
Went to this Girls
House I Had a Crush On...
She just Bought this Album..
Doug is great!
I became a drummer because that record!!
god damn excellent song.
Let's make sure the young power pop bands all have copies of "Get The Knack". This entire record is a pop masterpiece.
XCLNT! I have this 45 ( this is the flip side to "My Sharona") one of my ALL time FAVES!
thanx 4 sharing (now I have to pop the cd into my car cd player!)
:)
Gentlemen, The Knack? Now your starting to shake some dust off the shelves. Thank you
Bruce Gary was a regular visitor to the Los Angeles Beatlefest Beatles conventions. Even had a chance to get his photo and talk with him at my last one in 2000. He sadly passed away a few years ago. He is the one that wrote their number one hit 'My Sharona'
Randy R One hit wonder if all you listen to is AM/FM or MTV/MM GARBAGE and think your a J'ay of some sort , LMFAO.
i made a mistake. I believe it was Doug that died
That's sad. Do have photo of Doug at Beatlefest 2000. Also selling the tour book from back in 79
+Randy R Bruce Gary and Doug Fieger both died from Aids given to them by Gary Glitter.
JoJoGunn I find that hard to believe . However now don't have time to look it up.
I was 18,went to a party one night,stoned of course,in the fall of 79,walked in and this guy who owned the house where the party was had this "knack" album and started playin it,and i said,holy fuck,what is that?i thought it was a live band,lol.I went out the next day and bought the 8track,deafened myself"literally" listenin to it in my car via mindblower speakers .Here i am wearing hearing aids now but dont have no regrets .
RIP Doug Fieger
Este disco es increibleee
Get the Knack was a great album.
Still diggin the tunes
Takes me back to my high school days
Doug makes plenty of sounds in this song, but my favorite is the "whimper" at 3:17. It perfectly conveys the emotion of what "she" does to him.
So awesome!
what a great video...
Great album that still sound fresh today.
What was terrific about this LP was what the songs said...basically a no holds barred look at the trials and tribulations of teen romance/sex through the eyes of a horny teenage male...and it hit the nail on the head. Was 16 when this came out.Wish I could go back to that era.
Underrated!!!!!!!!!!
The whole "Get the Knack" album is pure pop perfection. One of Kurt Cobain's favorite albums.
Yep...!!
EXCELLENT
One unbelievable album
What a fucking great band The Knack were!
1979 White Pine Apts. Lawrence Township NJ. GOOD TIMES!!!
I first heard this on Hong Kong TV in 1984. I liked it then. I like it now!
SO TIGHT!!
I love the set, the exact shot used on the back of the Get the Knack album cover. Very cool.