Remember The Knack? They were promoted as gonna be bigger than The Beatles.
Yeah, how’d that work out?
Sure, it wasn’t the band’s fault. They were just musicians making music. The marketing at Capitol Records, though, kinda unintentionally sabotaged them. They had a handful of songs hit the charts, but only one really big hit. But it was big. Billboard declared it the Number One song of 1979.
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I do remember the parody of this song entitled “Ma, ma, my Scrotum!”
I think I feel a Weird Al parody coming on for tonight.
I always liked “Good Girls don’t”.
The editors and writers at Rolling Stone hated The Knack. I mean really, REALLY hated. I couldn’t understand the intense hatred at the time, but I now think that it was probably because The Knack was good.
The Beatles are my favorite band by far, but I wasn’t quite born yet when “I Want To Hold Your Hand” was released in the US, but if any song was that for me, it was “My Sharona”. I turned 15 the summer it came out. It was a game changer to everything that was on the radio at the time. Their first album is a must for anyone’s collection. The second album sounds like unused leftovers from their first album. The third album was better than the second but not quite as good as the first. Plenty of comback albums in the 90s-early 2000s. Doug Fieger, the lead singer passed away in 2010.
I’ve read that the main reason the press didn’t like them was because they didn’t do interviews.