Damn good band !!! They should have been much bigger than they were. I hope UA-cam will succeed in providing the outlet for them to receive the credit they are actually due.
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" ☺🎄☃🎅🏻
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.
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.
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!
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!!
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!
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.
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!
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 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!
*Last thing: in the Berton Averre interview linked with this video Averre said the Fieger used to refer to the former as his "next-door neighbor 2,000 miles away" because they grew up listening to the same music. Nice metaphor.
6 months~ There should be a comment every hours for these boys...Talent cubed! T3 The time was wrong. After the Beatles..I have the Knack and The Kinks....
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.
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.
@ATamandua ...and they seemed to put any pent-up emotion in their performances. (BTW, meant to say "(alcoholic) father" after Mr. Gary's name.) 5. Averre, Fieger, Fine and Ginsburg; sounds like a law firm but may have been the best. Jewish. band. ever. 6. This particular video looks most like the "Get the knack" back album cover. 7. I'd have loved to have heard the K cover the Raspberries "Go all the way", but with all their considerable musicianship I don't think they did 4-part harmony.
1. It's a pity this album had so many dirty words and suggestive lyrics, because the music was excellent. 2. In all the videos I've seen, no one has expressions like the late Mr. "Peter Pan" Fieger (how many actors has he been compared to on this thread?). 3. Note how Averre, apart from being a GREAT guitarist, is Fieger's singing foil on this song*. 4. Doug Fieger (brother) and the late Bruce Gary (brother) are said to have come from abusive backgrounds;
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.
SuperDachsund, you got that right. Same with several of their other songs. One last comment...on the final riffs which close out the song where the guitars go - DUM DUM DUM dadadadadadada DUMMMM...Mr. Niles had the luxury of hitting the final "DUMMMMM" just by sounding his "E" string, so as long as the note kept going he could do whatever he wanted. Here, he does that walk with his hands behind his back. On live videos he clapped or did a little dance waving his bass side-to-side. Cute.
@bibliotekarin ..LOL! I wish we had the chance to date back then! Anyway...the whole thing is written from a guys perspective..Now if you are telling me you were the one who was doing the "teasing", I'll buy that.
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
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.
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.
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.
@tigernut100 right on, brotha. I counsider get the Knack the greast Beatles album ever. That's how much i loved these guys. I play it all the way through at least 10X a year for 31 years running now. Hasn't been a better debut lp by ANY band since. Never will be either.
It was everywhere back then, or so it seemed. But that sticky bud permeated more than that overrated soul-destroyer. McCartney certainly knew that one.
What a band ! Doug, you are truly missed.
Brilliant album, Very underated. Rest In Peace Doug
This whole album was awesome. I would play it over and over, knew every song word for word
THE KNACK! I was there and feeling your music back in the day. RIP Doug.
Damn good band !!! They should have been much bigger than they were. I hope UA-cam will succeed in providing the outlet for them to receive the credit they are actually due.
Gentlemen, The Knack? Now your starting to shake some dust off the shelves. Thank you
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!
Karate kid on drums !! :D
. . . she'll tie it in a knot before she gives you any. c l a s s i c. he always has a smirk on his face. how can you knot love this group??
Dave Grohl sent me here ..... 🌺
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" ☺🎄☃🎅🏻
@@russgudz4220 🙌🤣
Me 2
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.
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.
this song fucking rocks plain and simple
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.
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!
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.
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!!!
Thank you Bruce Gary.
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...
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.
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!!!
The Knack, Blondie and The Cars....1978 Radio Punk Rock (We didn't call it New Wave yet)
I had forgotten how much this damn tune rocks. Lots of energy in the video too. RIP Doug!
Dave Grohl brought me here.
@9 I wouldn’t to that!..
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.
Very, Very, TALENTED group of musicians...😀😀😀😊😊☺☺😎😎
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.
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.
R.I.P. Doug
Wendy Kemler when doug die??????
ポップコン thank you.
Vine después de escuchar el cover que hizo Dave Grohl
R.I.P. Doug Feiger. Thank you for the music.
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.
This album was more than good. A fucking perfect pop record. One of my fucking favorites.
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.
great album, all hits, bruce gary is awesome on that record, it's sad he is gone. RIP bruce
Thanks for all the great tunes Doug!
Let's make sure the young power pop bands all have copies of "Get The Knack". This entire record is a pop masterpiece.
We miss Bruce and Doug terribly. R.I.P.
I love Niles's bass! It's super sexy and you can hear it!!!!!!
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!
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!!!
The autentic rock band !!!!
Funny how the Chipmunks covered 3 of their songs on Chipmunk Punk with all the raunchy lyrics!
*Last thing: in the Berton Averre interview linked with this video Averre said the Fieger used to refer to the former as his "next-door neighbor 2,000 miles away" because they grew up listening to the same music. Nice metaphor.
Doug left the world far too soon..
Been a fan since the SKY played around Detroit..
DOUG REMINDS ME OF MY FAVORITE DRUMMER GOD. THE ONE AND ONLY KEITH MOON!!. HE LOOKS LIKE KEITH'S YOUNGER BROTHER!!!.
My 3rd favoirte Knack song done perfectly!!! There's nothing Gay about it. These guys kicked ass back then!!!
6 months~ There should be a comment every hours for these boys...Talent cubed! T3
The time was wrong. After the Beatles..I have the Knack and The Kinks....
I became a drummer because that record!!
This was on the flip side of my Good Girls Don't 45. I think I still have it.
Ah, see, it's not just me. I always thought Feiger looked like John Ritter. I was 9 when this came out too. We got a lot in common.
Best concert ever, Seattle 1979!
Yeah, I always thought his solo was pretty darn good, too.....
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.
I can play this album anytime and not tire of it....and it's a helluva jam on the drums!
RIP, doug!! much love and thanks for your work, and its undue influence on my misspent youth.
She gonna take you by the hand...lead you to the promised land..
Great stuff
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.
oh my GAWD! my high school years wrapped up in 5 minutes.
The whole "Get the Knack" album is pure pop perfection. One of Kurt Cobain's favorite albums.
Yep...!!
@ATamandua ...and they seemed to put any pent-up emotion in their performances. (BTW, meant to say "(alcoholic) father" after Mr. Gary's name.) 5. Averre, Fieger, Fine and Ginsburg; sounds like a law firm but may have been the best. Jewish. band. ever. 6. This particular video looks most like the "Get the knack" back album cover. 7. I'd have loved to have heard the K cover the Raspberries "Go all the way", but with all their considerable musicianship I don't think they did 4-part harmony.
Great song and band. RIP Doug Fieger.
1. It's a pity this album had so many dirty words and suggestive lyrics, because the music was excellent. 2. In all the videos I've seen, no one has expressions like the late Mr. "Peter Pan" Fieger (how many actors has he been compared to on this thread?). 3. Note how Averre, apart from being a GREAT guitarist, is Fieger's singing foil on this song*. 4. Doug Fieger (brother) and the late Bruce Gary (brother) are said to have come from abusive backgrounds;
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.
@SunnBurn Those were the days, weren't they?
So ahead of their time.
Pop punk..
RIP Doug Fieger
SuperDachsund, you got that right. Same with several of their other songs.
One last comment...on the final riffs which close out the song where the guitars go - DUM DUM DUM dadadadadadada DUMMMM...Mr. Niles had the luxury of hitting the final "DUMMMMM" just by sounding his "E" string, so as long as the note kept going he could do whatever he wanted. Here, he does that walk with his hands behind his back. On live videos he clapped or did a little dance waving his bass side-to-side. Cute.
Bruce Grey is amazing
i love watching doug during the last 1:20 of this song. so much fun.
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
they were such a massive influence on nirvana
Damn! I wish I had that much testosterone!
You too?
Thank goodness it's slowing down. There's only so many times I can play this.
@@rickkstir Over forty years later and I still blast this album (well...CD) once or twice a year! :-D
@bibliotekarin ..LOL! I wish we had the chance to date back then! Anyway...the whole thing is written from a guys perspective..Now if you are telling me you were the one who was doing the "teasing", I'll buy that.
Vim depois de ouvir o couver do Dave Grohl
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
Anybody remember this one
Junior High....
Went to this Girls
House I Had a Crush On...
She just Bought this Album..
Great Video... I had never seen this before! Thanks for posting!
Banda.que.esplodiu.ano
79
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.
Listening to these guys in 2021, RIP Doug
Look at that...my god...
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.
still one of the best rock bands to make vinyl imo.
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.
Tricks out Cheap Trick like nobodies business...Mike Chapman +The Knack = Gold plated diapers baby!
Wwwoooouuuwwwd.....
@tigernut100 right on, brotha. I counsider get the Knack the greast Beatles album ever. That's how much i loved these guys. I play it all the way through at least 10X a year for 31 years running now. Hasn't been a better debut lp by ANY band since. Never will be either.
It was everywhere back then, or so it seemed. But that sticky bud permeated more than that overrated soul-destroyer. McCartney certainly knew that one.
LOVE THIS BAND XD
@Daveybassify You are absolutely right. All sorts of stuff goin on in these songs. Songs that hold up, what, over 30 years later?
The Knack rock! They are truly underrated, if you don't have Serious Fun get it, it's their hardest rocking album!
This was always my favorite song from
The Knack.
RIP Doug
Cupertino, Ca.
Doug is great!
Johnson Angela Martinez Christopher White Brian
Rip doug and bruce
does anyone elses cd copy of this song have the saying "watch out for flying concrete, please" at the end? i cant find any info on what the heck it is