the knack Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/the-knack/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 18:55:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 The Sunset Bombers “Sunset Bombers” https://vinylfromthevault.com/the-sunset-bombers-sunset-bombers-1978-ariola/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-sunset-bombers-sunset-bombers-1978-ariola Thu, 23 May 2019 19:11:18 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/the-sunset-bombers-sunset-bombers-1978-ariola/ The Sunset Bombers “Sunset Bombers” 1978. Ariola Records. Hard-rocking and high-energy with a glammy garage punk sound that predates that revival rage of the 90′s and early 2000′s by a good 20 years. Sunset Bombers was a one-off album project propelled by Doug Fieger, bassist and vocalist for The Sunset Bombers and soon-to-be member of the The [...]

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]]> The Sunset Bombers “Sunset Bombers” 1978. Ariola Records. Hard-rocking and high-energy with a glammy garage punk sound that predates that revival rage of the 90′s and early 2000′s by a good 20 years. Sunset Bombers was a one-off album project propelled by Doug Fieger, bassist and vocalist for The Sunset Bombers and soon-to-be member of the The Knack of “My Sharona” fame (1979). Fieger is from the Detroit area and the music of The Sunset Bombers has the same rough edge as fellow Detroit rockers MC5 and The Stooges but with a nod to good-time partying à la The New York Dolls. On The Sunset Bombers is a blistering bass-heavy cover of “Gimme Some Lovin’” as well as covering The Trogg’s “I Can’t Control Myself.” Also particularly good is “Let’s Drive Tonight” (such an infectious bass/guitar hook on this one!), “Gutter’s Paradise” and “Drag Queen.”

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]]> 10315 The Knack “My Sharona” https://vinylfromthevault.com/the-knack-my-sharona-1-on-the-us-charts-this/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-knack-my-sharona-1-on-the-us-charts-this Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:24:31 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3924 The Knack “My Sharona” #1 on the US charts this week in 1979. 45 rpm. B-side “Let Me Out.” “My Sharona” was the debut single by The Knack, an infectious power-pop/early new wave song about guitarist Berton Averre’s girlfriend, Sharona, who appears on this mocked-up photo of the single’s picture sleeve. “My Sharona” spent 6 weeks at #1 [...]

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]]> The Knack “My Sharona” #1 on the US charts this week in 1979. 45 rpm. B-side “Let Me Out.” “My Sharona” was the debut single by The Knack, an infectious power-pop/early new wave song about guitarist Berton Averre’s girlfriend, Sharona, who appears on this mocked-up photo of the single’s picture sleeve.

“My Sharona” spent 6 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and also reached #1 in Canada and Australia. It re-entered the charts in 1994 after appearing on the Reality Bites soundtrack in probably one of the best scenes from the movie. It has also been parodied/re many times over the years, most notably by Weird Al Yankovic’s “My Bologna” and Dead Kennedy’s “Pull My Strings” (chorus: “My Payola”).

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