|  | |  | | enlarge | | | | additional info of The Knack Get The Knack | | 1.Let Me Out
2.Your Number Or Your Name
3.Oh Tara
4.(She's So) Selfish
5.Maybe Tonight
6.Good Girls Don't
7.My Sharona
8.Heartbeat
9.Siamese Twins (The Monkey & Me)
10.Lucinda
11.That's What The Little Girls Do
12.Frustrated
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One of the Most Instantly Successful and Highest-Selling Debut Albums in History: The Knack's Attitudinal Get the Knack Loaded With Power Pop, Catchy Hooks, Keen Melodies, and "My Sharona" Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Strictly Limited to 2000 Numbered Copies
Most everyone knows The Knack's Get the Knack because of the ubiquitous smash "My Sharona," a contagious hit that still plays countless times everyday on radio stations nationwide. But the appeal and significance of the Los Angeles quartet's 1979 debut extend far beyond the career-making single. Loaded with tight power pop, hummable hooks, blunt lyrics, and precision playing, the controversy-igniting Get the Knack resonates with an ageless freshness that's influenced everyone from Kurt Cobain to modern indie artists such as the Mountain Goats. [...more...]
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... The lead single "My Sharona" became Capitol's fastest selling debut single since the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks. The follow-up single "Good Girls Don't" [...] | | | |
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... Aided by tongue-in-cheek marketing, a sly cover-art reference to the Beatles' Meet the Beatles, and Mack Truck-sized refrains that stick in your head for hours, Get the Knack went gold in days and, to date, has sold more than five million copies. The meteoric rise didn't sit well with detractors committed to ripping apart the band for its perceived arrogance [...] | | | |  | LP | |
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