Vitality 'Wet'
The Retriever, December 4, 1979, Pase 9 Knack c ' aptur~sBeatle sound, vitality By Julie Thompson that the emphasis on teenage love prevalent ill the early 1960's has shifted to Since their success in the Los Angeles one on teenage sex. With its seductive, club circuit in 1978,IThe Knack has set the pounding beat and blunt lyrics, "Selfish" musical world on its ear. The four is but a segment of the thematic thread musicianr" Doug Fieger, Berton Verre, running throughout the disc including Bruce Gap , and Prescott Niles, have such cuts as "Frustrated" and "Good Girls indeed been compared time and again with Don't." the 'Beatles, and justifiably so considering their concert stop at Carnegie Hall in New Although infectious, racey beal and York last month. The concert created a fervor quite reminiscent of those early, clamorous vocals seem to be the Knack's , heady days of Beatlemania, Get the Knack, speciality, the group proves themselves their debut album, only further warrants masters also of a more subdued style in "Maybe Tonight," the only mellow cut of the call for enthusiasm over this newly formed quartet. In their attempt to reinsti the album. Fieger's voice artfully weaves throughout this lazily tuneful track, tute the values brought to rock and roll by peaking with the refraining crescendo and the Beades, The Knack has produced an sliding easily back to an idle momentum. album brimmin~ with vitality. Aside from "My Sharona" and "Good Considering the success of this first Girls ,Don't," the two renown singles album, no doubt the music-enthusiastic released to date, Gel the Knack harbors a public, in hopes of unraveling the mystery collection of cuts that could each undoubt of the Knack phenomenom, is waiting , "{he Knack edly attain number one status as singles, with bated breath for a second release.
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