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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
They Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore, September 1, 2001
Ah...the Summer of '79. More than 25,000 punch-drunk baseball "fans" partake in the apocalyptic mayhem known as "Disco Demolition Night" at Chicago's Comiskey Park. Disco, the antithesis of rockers everywhere, dies a symbolic death in a fiery explosion that hot July evening. Meanwhile, the Knack's "My Sharona", a naughty, blistering ode to teenage sexuality, owns the # 1 spot atop the charts for weeks on end. Unbeknownst to anyone, the hands of time were cruelly ticking and the Knack's fifteen minutes were nearly over. Call it blind optimism, but we rampaging juveniles thought these guys would rule the universe forever.Yes, Capitol Records shamelessly cashed in on the Beatlesque qualities of this energetic L.A. quartet and yes, it was all so brutally calculated. But, who really cares? And more more importantly, who really cared in 1979 when the only two pop records that mattered were "Get the Knack" and Cheap Trick's "Live at Budokan" ? We ate this stuff up. And for good reason. It rocked. It tugged at our hearts and stroked our raging teenage hormones. And most of all, it shredded everything else in that homogenus gutter known as Top 40. It was part punk, part Liverpool and for that one glorious Summer it was all ours. "Sharona" and "Good Girls Don't" were mega-hits, but every tune on the LP (as we called them back then) is pure killer power pop. The guitars slammed, the drums were punchier than a drunk brawler in a Sunset Strip bar and the hooks were unforgetable. "Oh, Tara", "That's What the Little Girls Do" and "Lucinda" were all catchy enough to have charted. Heck, they even pulled off a dynamite Buddy Holly cover with the infectious "Heartbeat". Twenty years later, they're are plenty of gutsy, rockin' bands just like the Knack. Problem is, no one knows about them. Record companies won't touch 'em. No, they want serious stuff. You know, stuff like rap/metal, sappy singer songwriters and teenage creampuffs. Oh well, you can't beat 'em, so go ahead and get the Knack and rejoice in the pleasure that is/was rock-n-roll. They don't make them like this anymore!
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~ Cracker
~ The Cars
~ Supertramp
~ Cheap Trick
~ Bob Seger
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