I was born in 63 also I would play this album When I was in my room making out with one of the most attractive girls I Ever dated. She was 15 and wild . Great Memories!
I can't believe a band had this much balls to do this song and release it to the public. So honest and so dirty for a pop song. TBH, though, it's more the package it was delivered in than what he said. This made it on to AM radio. The other thing about the Knack is this record shared in the best production standards of the time (the late 70s, so ALL TIME). Clean but still rocking and punchy, with acres of headroom.
I was at work and out of nowhere "Good Girls Don't" pops into my head after not hearing the song for years!! "The Knack" is back!! Can't stop listening to em now!!
The Knack were so well rehearsed, that when they went into the recording studio, the only thing the producer had to do was to hit record. The band got it on the first few takes. They played and recorded as a band. Hard to find that today.
Brings back some great memories of those days. Later Doug had a band called Taking Chances, he would come by my home with a guy named Paul Greenwood for our partyramaganza. Rest In Peace ole bud, you did your thing like no one else
Yeah, this IS one of my favorite songs from my admittedly misspent youth. Why do you ask, officer? 😁😆 RIP Doug. Jokes aside 'Get the Knack' is one of the five albums that encapsulates the 'Death to Disco' era for me.
Oh yeah!!! I had this album on vinyl man!!! I remember when Sharona came out; kept hearing it on the radio like 10x a day, then I finally figured out the group/album after buying a Greg Khin record by mistake!!!
The Knack played Carnegie Hall? That’s a high point for any band to play that venue along with Madison Square Garden. And yet they are not in the HOF because the damn critics painted them as phony Beatles or posers because they wore suits. Ridiculous! That first album sold millions and on that tour they were the number one hottest rock band in the world for a year! Okay, later everything collapsed but that’s due to the bad press they got! They belong in the HOF!
@@tryithere You're outta your mind. Oh Tara, Maybe tonight, My Sharon, Thats what the little girls do, Your number or your name, Shes so Selfish, Lucinda, Frustrated, Heartbeat. You should actually listen to these guys before you pop off like a dummy.
I remember when the boys were fired for spitting sunflower shells on the floor of my ex-brother in law's bar floor In Quatz Hill, CA. Before they had an album.
For a very brief moment, these guys were being hyped as the "second coming" of The Beatles. Their debut album sold millions in short time. Though as fast as their meteoric rise was, their fall was even swifter. Bad press about the band's alleged "standoffish" attitude towards interviewers and fans turned things sour, as did rumors of lead singer, Doug Feiger's supposed "hatred" towards women (due to the lyrics of a number of the band's songs) and backlash against their fast rise to fame were just a few factors in the subsequent poor sales of followup releases.
Sad. I never really knew what happened to this band. I bought their debut album soon after it came out in 1979 when I was a senior in college. I loved it! I had left progressive rock and disco mostly behind, as I was entering my new wave and punk phase with bands like the Knack!
@@ddrissel @ Big Dave . . . Greetings from one Dave to another! We're probably about the same age . . . old! I was also starting my senior year in college in Fall '79. Get the Knack was the hottest new album and seemed to be blasting out of every stereo and jukebox on campus. These guys were a hell of a lot of fun and had such a bright, fresh, and exciting new sound. The Knack, The Cars, Cheap Trick, Boston, Billy Joel, Pat Benatar, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, etc . . . what a great time to be a music fan!
I think what really did it was their early hits were light but amazing power pop, and they just couldn't match them fast enough. I think they rotated towards something wildly different and it didn't catch fire. Standards for bands in the 1970s were very high, and it was easy to fault these guys compared to all the 'serious' music out there. Today, they'd have no competition!
@crapple009: interesting. Maybe she had a mental mashup of "good Girls don't" and "surrender". My father knew and liked two Beatles' songs, "Michelle" and "Yesterday". My mother would've glazed over if one mentioned the Beatles. They loved classical music most of all.
Born in 1963! Man did I grow up with awesome bands
So was I! My brother had this album and Mum played this song LOL
I was born in 63 also I would play this album When I was in my room making out with one of the most attractive girls I Ever dated. She was 15 and wild . Great Memories!
Born in 1958. Perfect time!!
I can't believe a band had this much balls to do this song and release it to the public. So honest and so dirty for a pop song. TBH, though, it's more the package it was delivered in than what he said. This made it on to AM radio. The other thing about the Knack is this record shared in the best production standards of the time (the late 70s, so ALL TIME). Clean but still rocking and punchy, with acres of headroom.
I remember playing this loud at home and my sister told my mom on me! lol.
At least nobody died or was shot in the making of this song. THANK THE LORD!!!
Try listening to anything by Ted Nugent. Pushed the very limits of smut and perversion.
great fun & now pretty tame by WAP standards
That's a much less funny song though.@@christopherschnieders4369
I was at this concert! It was my first concert. I was 16.
Branch Mint what year was this
I was 16 that year and saw the Cars perform. We were lucky
lucky
@BC FOSTER You’re a true perv.
Hey that is a beautiful memory🎸👍
Summer of '79 rocked. My Sharona was my fav!
Same!!
Loved this whole album. Saw this tour, Romantics opened. Boston
Si, the Romantics, muy buenos, también de este mismo estilo, Power Pop
This song rocks!!! "And it feels real good" haha. Nice one Doug. RIP Doug Fieger. He and The Knack belong in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Ummmm, they had two hits.
LOLOL ahead of Jethro Tull and Grand Funk??😂😂😂😂
Ever hear of the replacements? They deserve in first by far. The Knack lol
I was at work and out of nowhere "Good Girls Don't" pops into my head after not hearing the song for years!! "The Knack" is back!! Can't stop listening to em now!!
The Knack were so well rehearsed, that when they went into the recording studio, the only thing the producer had to do was to hit record. The band got it on the first few takes. They played and recorded as a band. Hard to find that today.
Dammit!! You know they were good when they sound as good live as in the studio!! I wore TWO 8-tracks of GET the KNACK out back in the day.
Love dougs facial expressions! RIP
Fall of 79, 71 Nova, senior in high school, eight track Get the Knack!
74,000 views? Where is everybody? The Hottest band in 1979. In the world and they had incredible competition. Cars, Police, Kiss, Boston, etc;
...and best of all, it's the uncensored version! ^_^
fuckin BLAAZING! and that fancy ass country guitar throughout. Fantastic.
It made a HUGE impression on me post high school. I have their first LP. Sadly the singer succumbed to throut cancer.
I remember hearing the dirty version on the radio....man, what a gem of a song and a fantastic video!!... subscribed!!
What Happened? These Guy were Great Live! At least they got to the Top! 1979/80 New Wave was After Disco
One of my “desert island classics” for sure!
Brings back some great memories of those days. Later Doug had a band called Taking Chances, he would come by my home with a guy named Paul Greenwood for our partyramaganza.
Rest In Peace ole bud, you did your thing like no one else
Lead guitarist is amazing.
He does lots more than carry his part. He holds his own with a great vocalist!
I was at this show. I was 2nd on line as we slept out overnight in front of Carnegie Hall for tickets.
Awesome 🎉
Yeah, this IS one of my favorite songs from my admittedly misspent youth. Why do you ask, officer? 😁😆
RIP Doug. Jokes aside 'Get the Knack' is one of the five albums that encapsulates the 'Death to Disco' era for me.
So fucken tight. Amazing band. Brilliant musicians. Bless em. What happened
Oh yeah!!! I had this album on vinyl man!!! I remember when Sharona came out; kept hearing it on the radio like 10x a day, then I finally figured out the group/album after buying a Greg Khin record by mistake!!!
greg kihn is good too
I always love to hear the uncensored version! ^_^
sensorship sucks
This was the year I graduated
GET THE KNACK-In 2019 and beyond.
Outstanding guitarist and drummer.
This eas my favorite version
Yes !! The uncut real F--king lyrics...Yes !!!
An underrated genius, Saw him in a pre-Knack band called the Sunset Bombers. Great song . . .
Man, I really miss the awesome seventies.....GREAT stuff
I don't! don't look back.
Oh the memories. Early 80's at the 7th street entry.. So much fun..
such an underrated band ....great musos!
Brilliant tune done very tightly indeed! I hear The Who and The Sweet in this.
Great song by an incredible live band.
Real power pop with real lyric. FAB!
they were amazing! insanely good songs!
Mom always confused The Knack with Cheap Trick. Bless her!
Seen them on their first tour.One of thee best shows I`ve seen.
Awesome live version. Fieger reminds me of a cross between John Lennon and Christopher Lee. Charismatic but spooky.
15 year old and my GF and i would thrash Get The Knack 1979 no better song .. when hormones r raging .wed dance and sing along with this
Wow, what a powerful memory. - Thanks
This was what I live for I really miss the KNACK MR POSTIVE SPEAKS...MIKE BRWN BOBBI'S LITTKE BROTHER
Good stuff! When music was a art.
And very popular in colleges too
knackの中で一番のれる曲たね！ 最高❗
俺、武道館に行ったよ❗❗
A GREAT ALBUM IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT WHO CARES.
RIP Doug Fieger . Sadly gone way too soon.
So was the drummer. Even earlier.
@@tryithere
what happened with him?
@@paleoman8854 Drum stick through the eye. J/K cancer.
ohhhh yeah
these guys were good.
Who knew Wolowitz from Big Bang Theory was once in a band? Seriously, great song from that era.
I think he looks very much like Jack Tripper/ John Ritter.
The Knack played Carnegie Hall? That’s a high point for any band to play that venue along with Madison Square Garden. And yet they are not in the HOF because the damn critics painted them as phony Beatles or posers because they wore suits. Ridiculous! That first album sold millions and on that tour they were the number one hottest rock band in the world for a year! Okay, later everything collapsed but that’s due to the bad press they got! They belong in the HOF!
Thank you
They had two songs.
tryithere But that's the point. They should have had more songs but they were up against it.
@@tryithere You're outta your mind. Oh Tara, Maybe tonight, My Sharon, Thats what the little girls do, Your number or your name, Shes so Selfish, Lucinda, Frustrated, Heartbeat. You should actually listen to these guys before you pop off like a dummy.
@@markradzwion5547 I should have said "Two good songs."
Unfairly maligned but a really good power pop band.
I think history is proving good to them, but you're right, they were derided for years, although they did dig their own grave a bit with song choices.
Sound great live..!
Doug Fieger - the younger brother of lawyer Jeffrey Feiger, who gained notoriety as the attorney for "assisted suicide" doctor Jack Kevorkian.
Loved the stuff that Knack released - very good quality pop/rock. Though I've always thought Feiger looked totally creepy.
They played their songs very fast which you don't see much anymore
+Ping Pong And they play real instruments and sing and write their own songs - which you don't see much anymore!
Many people wrote the Knack off as a one hit wonder. So untrue.
The original lyrics!
I remember when the boys were fired for spitting sunflower shells on the floor of my ex-brother in law's bar floor In Quatz Hill, CA. Before they had an album.
Cool! A hit song about having your face sat upon ! 😛
i think that's lester bangs standing stage side
RIP Doug...
RIP the drummer Bruce Gary too...
👌🏼😍🤩👍🏼👏👏👏👏
Such funny lyrics
Very underappreciated and apparently poorly managed, yet, they still turned out some iconic music in a very crowded '80s Punk scene
They look like they were really enjoying themselves😅.
For a very brief moment, these guys were being hyped as the "second coming" of The Beatles. Their debut album sold millions in short time. Though as fast as their meteoric rise was, their fall was even swifter. Bad press about the band's alleged "standoffish" attitude towards interviewers and fans turned things sour, as did rumors of lead singer, Doug Feiger's supposed "hatred" towards women (due to the lyrics of a number of the band's songs) and backlash against their fast rise to fame were just a few factors in the subsequent poor sales of followup releases.
Sad. I never really knew what happened to this band. I bought their debut album soon after it came out in 1979 when I was a senior in college. I loved it! I had left progressive rock and disco mostly behind, as I was entering my new wave and punk phase with bands like the Knack!
@@ddrissel @ Big Dave . . . Greetings from one Dave to another! We're probably about the same age . . . old! I was also starting my senior year in college in Fall '79. Get the Knack was the hottest new album and seemed to be blasting out of every stereo and jukebox on campus. These guys were a hell of a lot of fun and had such a bright, fresh, and exciting new sound. The Knack, The Cars, Cheap Trick, Boston, Billy Joel, Pat Benatar, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, etc . . . what a great time to be a music fan!
I think what really did it was their early hits were light but amazing power pop, and they just couldn't match them fast enough. I think they rotated towards something wildly different and it didn't catch fire. Standards for bands in the 1970s were very high, and it was easy to fault these guys compared to all the 'serious' music out there. Today, they'd have no competition!
@crapple009: interesting. Maybe she had a mental mashup of "good Girls don't" and "surrender".
My father knew and liked two Beatles' songs, "Michelle" and "Yesterday". My mother would've glazed over if one mentioned the Beatles. They loved classical music most of all.
i think theyre more punk, and rock.. then cheap trck, who to me always reminds me ov=f a cover band, and I love them..
this one is easily as good as the beatles and gets extra points for snarkiness...
Knack
The lead singer looks exactly like Pete Townshend from The Who.
They were such a flash in the pan. It must have been incredible for them while they were flashing.
The dirty version
It looks like Adam Samberg on guitar.
Put a curly wig on Daniel Tosh and you've got Berton Averre.
These little bastards had a quite a sound
let's hear it for lust!
Great power pop, but the lyrics are pretty much high school pervy stuff
And what's wrong with that?????
Nothing pervy about it .Exactly how it was back then . Know many girls exactly like what hes singing about
omg. this dude looks like chevy chase XD
Anthem of randy teenagers everywhere
wish they panned the audience when he spouted those irreverent lyrics, haa