IT’S YOUR WEDNESDAY K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

Good girls don't/but boy oh boy, this band did. And HOW.  Nobody...I mean NOBODY saw this record coming back in 1979. The album was recorded in just two weeks at a cost of only $18,000, the single was "My Sharona" and both hit the charts and ripped #$#@ up. You gotta understand, this was the height of disco and singer/songwriter boredom (your mileage may vary) and up to the top of those very same charts climbs this raucous, live sounding vaguely lascivious record, from a band stealing, image wise,  left right and center from sacred cows, the Beatles.

And then the backlash came whipping to the forefront. HOW DARE THEY? WHO DOES THIS "THE KNACK" THINK THEY ARE? HARUMPH! HARUMPH! There was even a "Knuke the Knack" campaign.

Which is all load of donkey nerts, cos the record, in fact, kicks arse! No less than Kurt Cobain listed it in his top fifty albums of all time.

The funny thing is, record company tools immediately went out and sign every "power pop" band they could dig up, thus giving birth to the "skinny tie" phase of the new wave boom. Which is ironic, cos nobody on the Knack album cover is in fact wearing a tie.

The Knack managed one more hit before heading out to Has Been island, a song that got all the way up to number 11 on the Billboard chart thing, no mean feat, and that there tune is your-

-K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

P.S: wanna learn more about that "My Sharona" song and how it conquered the world?  OF COURSE YOU DO!