The Best of the Knack [Original recording remastered]

The Knack | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 17, 1999)
• Original Release Date: November 2, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: EMI-Capitol Special Markets
• ASIN: B00001IVML
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,013 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. My Sharona

2. Your Number or Your Name

3. Baby Talks Dirty

4. That's What the Little Girls Do

5. Can't Put a Price on Love

6. Good Girls Don't

7. Pay the Devil (Ooo, Baby, Ooo)

8. Don't Look Back

9. Boys Go Crazy

10. How Can Love Hurt So Much

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great place to visit..., November 2, 2000

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This review is from: The Best of the Knack (Audio CD)

If you want to have one Knack collection and don't want to spend a lot, this is a very good retrospective. Of course, "My Sharona" and "Good Girls Don't" are here, along with a few neglected classics ("You're Number or Your Name") and some harder to find songs such as the Springsteen penned "Don't Look Back". If you want just one album by this band, then it really should be "Get the Knack", but this is the best of the three or four career retrospectives.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting retrospective, February 10, 2001

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eveoflove (North York, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of the Knack (Audio CD)

Made in USA in 1999, Serial# 72435-20581-2-9, Playing Time 35:18

This CD is part of EMI's "10 Best Series", which consists of putting what the record company deems to be the 10 best tracks from the artist.

This compilation features tracks up to their 3rd album, "Round Trip", plus 1 song (Don't Look Back) left in the vaults until the "Retrospective" album issued back in 1992.

THE KNACK, mostly known for "My Sharona", make basic but catchy music; I'd call it "Fun Rock": straight ahead, unpretentious melodies, that make you want to "get up and dance". The sad part is that the CD only lasts 35 minutes, their writing style consisting of 3-minute songs.

If you've got other retrospectives, you'll probably pass up on this; but if you don't, it's a good place to get exposed to their songwriting skills.

5.0 out of 5 stars Get all the Knack you want!, June 21, 2011

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Mehaudy S. Roberto (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of the Knack (Audio CD)

A very good compilation of a band that could have done much more in the history of rock. Unfortunately, they disbanded, but the outcome left by far deserves an opportunity.