I’m not ashamed to say that I have owned and enjoyed the first three Knack albums GET THE KNACK, BUT THE LITTLE GIRLS UNDERSTAND, and ROUND TRIP….The bottom line for me is they wrote a number of catchy early Beatles songs with middle 8's etc. and they were a fun listen.
I never thought much of the backlash against them….The Knack were overhyped in a marketing campaign that ultimately proved disastrous to their career but they were not manufactured in the boy band sense….They did write their own songs.
The NUKE THE KNACK people, the people who burned records and all that were generally those who liked "classic " rock not necessarily people who listened to new wave and punk.
And while their record company tapped into the power pop scene which had been burbling under the surface in the late 70's (kind of the way Nirvana's did with punk in the early 90's), their appearance signaled the beginning of guitar oriented pop music once again as British bands such as Squeeze and XTC had not caught on yet in the US.
They made satisfying power pop and The Knack prove what I've always believed that using any phase of The Beatles career as a taking off point for your own music is a good thing....
Their best album was probably their first….
And I always liked these two songs….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksjid13iWLg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LjsOoO0VdM
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