Every Knack song starts off with a bang. “Let Me Out”. “Pop is Dead”.So, why does the final Fieger/Averre album start off sounding like a rejected track from a Squeeze album?Sure the song picks up after a bit, but it’s lazy, beachcomber atitude and dumb lyrics make me wonder why Continue Reading
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Listening Post – The Knack – Zoom
The Knack – Zoom – 1998 Let’s get this out there. I love love love the opening track, “Pop is Dead”, an infectious, snarky, reflective commentary on the state of pop culture wrapped up in a perfect 3:48 confection.Terry Bozzio’s drums emulate Bruce Gary’s flourishy fills that I adored on that Continue Reading
Listening Post – The Knack – Serious Fun
The Knack – Serious Fun – 1991 The first thing you notice about the reunion album by The Knack, recorded 10 years after they broke up, is just how…generic it sounds.With Don Was’s hands on the dials the album has a certain crunch to it but that doesn’t help, it Continue Reading
Listening Post – The Knack – Round Trip
After falling on their face with their follow up to their smash debut, Fieger, Averre and the band picked themselves off the self-congratulatory floor, tossed Mike Chapman out for Jack Douglas and pumped out Round Trip, their 3rd album and the last before they would break up for a while. Continue Reading
Listening Post – The Knack – …But the Little Girls Understand.
The Knack – …But the Little Girls Understand. – 1980 Hey! That’s THE Sharona on the cover of the follow up to their massive debut album! I wonder if this album will have anything near as good as that track!! The first half of that sentence I’m pretty sure no Continue Reading
Listening Post – The Knack – Get the Knack
I love just about every Knack track I’ve ever heard. But, truly, that isn’t that many. Never did a band soar so high so fast and crash that much faster than this Power Pop quartet. Let’s go back and listen shall we?The Knack – Get The Knack – 1979 Yeah, Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – The Show Must Go On
Well, here we are. The last song (proper) of the Queen catalog. Yes, they released another album, a patchwork of older stuff, re-edits and demo redux, but this was the last album that the four agreed to. Freddie died the day after it was released, I believe. So, I’m not Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Bijou
I had a friend who had this album on Vinyl. In the early 90s I didn’t know anyone who still listened to, let alone bought, vinyl. And he said that this song was highly truncated on black plastic. He missed out. It’s a pretty nice piece. The whole point of Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – The Hitman
After the debacle os singing an ode to his CAT, Freddie started and Brian finished a rousing rocker ala “I Want it All”. It’s all riffage and muscle and meat. When he died, I figured the song was some descriptor of the disease, but now, 22 years later, I think Continue Reading
Queen for a Day – Delilah
The dying lead singer wrote a song for his cat. The drummer didn’t want to include it on the album because it’s well, a song about a cat. The singer pleaded. It’s on the album. It’s a song about a cat. It’s so much a song about a cat that Continue Reading