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August 3, 2000

This Day in Rock

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July 16, 1998

Don't Knock The Knack

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Don't Knock The Knack

Sharona may be gone, but she isn't forgotten
May 12, 1998

The Knack Is Back

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The Knack have a lot to answer for, and they know it. Only someone with an incredibly short memory could forget the trumped-up Beatlemania of their 1979 debut album, Get the Knack, and their arrogant stonewalling of the media. Such strategy merely reinforced the suspicion that the runaway success of...

2002 RS: 3of 5 Stars

But The Little Girls Understand

1980

Get The Knack

1979

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Knack fans will forever contend that their band suffered unduly and irreparably from a critical backlash that followed the group's first album. Less strident lovers of power-pop argue that the group never had much in 'em beyond their mega-hit "My Sharona," and their catalogue bears that out.

Early detractors had a barrel of reasons for hating the Knack: Their lyrics were sexist (though they were...

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