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The Knack - Get The Knack [Mp3 320 kbps] TNT Village
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Get The Knack is the debut album by The Knack, released in June 1979. The album went platinum (one million units sold) in just two months and spent five weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The lead single from the album, "My Sharona", was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and #1 on Billboard's Top Pop Singles of 1979 year end chart. The LP also featured the second single "Good Girls Don't" which peaked at #11 on The Billboard Hot 100 chart. Other cuts that received significant airplay on AOR radio were: "(She's So) Selfish" and "Frustrated", and a cover version of the Buddy Holly song "Heartbeat".
The album was recorded in two weeks at a cost of just $18,000 and became an instant success, thanks in part to an intense promotional campaign by Capitol Records. It sold two million copies in the United States and six million worldwide. The Knack's image was largely influenced by The Beatles. The album cover imitates The Beatles' first Capitol LP Meet the Beatles! and the back cover photo depicts a scene very close to a shot from The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night. To complete the Beatle imagery, the 1960s Capitol rainbow label adorned the LP.
The album presented a raw energetic sound with fast cuts from song to song that helped establish the new wave trend. It also featured uncensored lyrics in a time before warning labels. While the album was extremely popular, there was also an intense negative backlash spearheaded by the "Knuke the Knack" campaign in response to the controversial messages (at the time) in the album's songs. When the album was released on CD in the 1990s, lyrics on the song '(She's So) Selfish' were significantly altered, with lines like "coming from the quaalude scene" changed to "...lame'o scene". The album was re-released on CD in 2002 as a remastered version true to the original vinyl release, and included bonus demo tracks of 'My Sharona' and 'That's What The Little Girls Do', as well as a rehearsal track of 'Maybe Tonight'.
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1. Let Me Out (D. Fieger – B. Averre)
2. Your Number Or Your Name (D. Fieger – B. Averre)
3. Oh Tara (D. Fieger)
4. (She’s So) Selfish (D. Fieger – B. Averre)
5. Maybe Tonight (D. Fieger)
6. Good Girls Don’t (D. Fieger)
7. My Sharona (D. Fieger – B. Averre)
8. Heartbeat (B. Montgomery – N. Petty)
9. Siamese Twins (The Monkey and Me) (D. Fieger – B. Averre)
10. Lucinda (D. Fieger – B. Averre)
11. That’s What The Little Girls Do (D. Fieger)
12. Frustrated (D. Fieger – B. Averre)
Bonus Track
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