This is the fourth leftover from the marathon! We have been trying hard to get the fifth and final song through copyright, but we are not sure if it will ever make it through. Thanks!

@penelopehornswaggle102

Ай бұрын

Love your reactions ❤🔥 Please check out Cook with Fire by Heart. Original recording sounds live but I read that it isn't live, and the live one on KZread sounds TERRIBLE. The song is 🔥 🔥!!!! You will thank me after😊😊😊

@penelopehornswaggle102

Ай бұрын

What word did you think it was? I'm lost duh😂😮😂

One of the most underrated rock solos of all time. This dude could play with anyone

@Willie_McBride

Ай бұрын

100% agree. Solo is PURE FILTH. And doesn’t get anywhere near the recognition it deserves.

If someone wrote a song like this today it’d never make it on the radio and that is a damn shame. Thank God there was some good music made before people started taking themselves too seriously.

@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra

Ай бұрын

...The only reason it "wouldn't make it on the radio" [if such a thing, still, EXISTED!] is 'cause: It's too GOOD! 👍👍 ...I mean: I don't recall ANYONE bringing-up, even, the POTENTIAL of a relationship that Feiger had with a girl, AT THE TIME, AT ALL (MAYBE in California where "gossip is stock-in-trade,"🙄 but: it was NEVER mentioned, AT ALL, elsewhere! ...until (at MINIMUM!) decades later!!!)!!!! ...Nowadays there are voluminous amounts of [so-called!] "artists" **cough-cough** who wrote lyrics about "if you don't prefer anal, g.t.f.o." and other such shit. "Lurid" doesn't even BEGIN to cover it! Openly "rapey" **ahem--ahem!!!!** "culture" and assertions/attitudes are EXPECTED and celebrated!! ...so: your idea that "this song would never make it on the radio" (if such a thing, even, EXISTED, anymore!) is, likely, from an older, more appropriate sensibility and an unfamiliarity with the openly, lewd, stupid, pointless shit that passes as "lyrical content" in the current day & age! ...or from someone who did not grow-up knowing anything better/less intolerably stupid and aggressive🤦) which (despicably and, actually, sadly!) masquerades as/under the fallacy of: 'expressive freedom' 🤦🙄, nowadays...🙄🙄) No, seriously!!

Sharona was one of 4 "Knackettes". The girls followed them to all their shows and Doug fell in love with Sharona and the rest is history.

@Anniearchy

Ай бұрын

Yes...but Doug died!!

You can't hate this song. It won't let you. And I do LOVE the guitar solo.

@TheFairyintheFishBowl

Ай бұрын

Great comment!

@TrailerBob

Ай бұрын

It's one of my favourite solos.

@Willie_McBride

Ай бұрын

For a while I believed that I was the only one who understood how EPIC the guitar solo is.

Huge hit back then. Constantly on the radio.

@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra

Ай бұрын

Nearly HOURLY, in 1980!! 🤘🤘

One of the greatest power pop albums ever.

@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra

Ай бұрын

Indeed!

Insane guitar solo and drums... To the beginning at last! I LOVE THIS SONG!

It is definitely one of the greatest guitar solos EVER! Note perfect. Just amazingly written and played.

@humphreygruntwhistle3946

Ай бұрын

It sure is. Always been my favorite part of this song.

@TrailerBob

Ай бұрын

And it does everything I love in a solo. Everything.

@ms8742

Ай бұрын

@@TrailerBob Yes, it's epic.

That part near the end of the solo when the guitar descends with the tom roll omg it gets me every time. Listening to this song makes me feel like a pinball on an extended play. I swear it's dangerous to play when driving it just takes over.

"I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind" WTF!!

Glad you guys touched on the guitar solo. I’ve been saying this is one of the most underrated and unappreciated solos for 40 years. Well thought out and well played and fit perfectly with the song.

It's not like he was a geezer, he was 26-27, she was 17, inappropriate and all, but she turned legal in a year, and was his girlfriend, in the end it's NBD.

When this came out in '79 it was at the time when New Wave songs were first beginning to make it onto the mainstream rock stations. This was a track that both the classic rockers and the New Wavers liked. And yes, the guitar solo is killer. By the way, the single version left out a large section of the guitar solo.

I was 21 when this record came out. A great song. Pomp up the volume! 🎶🎶🎶👍

Tighter, Tighter by Alive and Kickin from 1970! GREAT CLASSIC

❤This is on my "Sombody has a case of the Mondays" playlist along with Love Shack by B-52's works everytime🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️

Their next hit was "Good Girls Don't" which reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is also a "dirty minded" song. "And she makes you want to scream; wishing you could get inside her pants" (this line was re-recorded as "wishing she was givin' you a chance" on the "clean" single release): And it's a teenage sadness Everyone has got to taste. An in-between age madness That you know you can't erase Til she's sitting on your face (and it hurts!). The "clean" single edit also changed this last line to "when she puts you in your place."

@NoCanDu

Ай бұрын

They should react to that one! I LOVE that tune!

@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra

Ай бұрын

That song PALES in comparison (and over the past 4-5 decades has NEVER "grown on me." ) "Good Girls Don't" is (musically!) terrible [whether in comparison or on-it's-own!].

My brother used to sing "My Scrotum!"

This went to #1 for 6 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 starting in August 1979.

I have been incessantly listening to The Knack's third album, "Round Trip". It's both round, and a trip, hence the title. I CANNOT STOP LISTENING TO IT! I originally bot it in 1981. Do a reaction to "Another Lousy Day in Paradise". DO IT!

I NEEDED this today, Thank You. This song just puts you in a great mood.❤

This brings me back to the summer right before I started high school. I have this on a playlist and I listen to it at least once a week.

The Knack actually had another hit -- "Good Girls Don't". And all their songs and albums are excellent

@NoCanDu

Ай бұрын

React to this, please! So good!

Weird Al's parody is called My Bolona.

Suggestion 'Anyway You Want It" live in Houston. A different Journey than you have seen!!!!

Wow i did not realize it was a naughty song. I guess i never paid attention to the lyrics. I know there is a lot of parodys! It brings me back to my neighborhood in Chicago area, listening to it as a very little kid when the older neighbors played this on their radios playing "Kick the Can" or "tag". Fun song and so simple!

Bruce Gary [the band's drummer], RARELY gets his deserved accolades! (perhaps among other musicians 🤷) ...but he is a monster player, in fact. As much as Fieger & Averre were "the song-writing team" (for the most part); the core reason for the band's tightness, rapid-fire energy & overall quality, were (the rock rhythm section of): Drummer, Bruce Gary and Bassist, Prescott Niles. Bruce DID have the advantage of being the only member born & bred in N.Y.C. 😋🤘🤘 ...but y'know.... 🤷🤪 -The entire Get The Knack album is, top-to-bottom, worthwhile! "Lucinda" is one of my most favorite "unknown" (to MOST people) cuts! 🤘🤘 ...Get The Knack and Round Trip are necessary albums in the collection of anyone who: really likes music from this period; any pop-radio-leaning, melodic rock fan, any new wave fan and any fan of the brief fart of a "movement" which often is, now, "historicalized" as "California Power-Pop" or "the Power-Pop movement of the late '70s & early '80s" (in the U.S., that ONLY existed in Cali.!). Anyhow: underappreciated, excellent albums! 🤘🤘

@Coowallsky

Ай бұрын

Many fellow drummers said Bruce had the fastest right foot in the business.

@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra

Ай бұрын

@@Coowallsky 🤘🤘

That solo!! 🔥

This whole album is fire. The opener "Let Me Out" was the b-side to this song, and arguably as good or better. Drummer Bruce Gary was a beast behind the kit.

What a brilliant track this is and ALLWAYS will be.

They had another song (good girls don't) that reached #11 in the US

Ooooo that bass!

Yes! You guys did it 😊. What a great song. Now I would LOVE for you guys to do some Billy Squire “My kinda lover”. Thanks guys your great and I love the channel! 😊👍🏻😘

Doug Feiger's brother Geoff was Dr. Kevorkian's attorney,

Definitely one of the best solos you will ever hear.

This song was playing on my 8trac in my 1969 dodge coronet when I wrapped it around a tree. I had it through the 90’s blood still covering it but played until I lost it in storage

@paulrosenberg4227

Ай бұрын

i had the sameDodge ..my first car...aquamarine metal blue. my 8 track had Abraxas and Wheels of Fire

Such an awesome riff….many hijo hop artists have sampled it many times over. Such a classic 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

Spot on. Killer song and the solo just takes it to the next level. Top shelf!

This was so much fun to dance to!

This sonng is sooooo dirty. Loved it from the time it was released.

Such fun!!!! 🎶🎶🎶🎶

Great song & great guitar solo! Thanks for sharing!

I've heard this song a thousand times, but never the longer version. I didn't realize what great musicians they were. BTW, Doug Feiger was a guest singer on some songs by Was (Not Was), another band you should have a listen to.

If you want to check out Sharona her picture is on the cover of the single. ❤

This is a great song. And, it has a surprisingly good guitar solo towards the end. Great reaction!!

The guitar solo in this song cooks

We made up words a lot to songs back in the day😂 ours for this one was “ My Scrotum”😂

@karmakat77

Ай бұрын

Ours was I atola😂

@Coowallsky

Ай бұрын

My Big Bona!

@firstnamelastname8060

Ай бұрын

Cheech and Chong did it first.

@heatherturner6955

Ай бұрын

​@@karmakat77 That is what Steve Dahl did in Chicago back in the day

​​A great guitar solo is one that fits the groove perfectly. It is not about your speed, your study of scales or your awesome distortion pedal. This is a great guitar solo.

@stephenreiner1523

Ай бұрын

Give it up wwoooh. Hot little wench.

Wow, the end was explosive ! It does get you moving . Yeah, kinda dirty like you said. Some times you can't hear the lyrics real good. And that can make it a little easier to block it out. Up to you.

I've been hearing My Sharona for 45 years and never really paid attention to the lyrics because the music was so fire. I just sloughed it off as a song about young love but one line in particular is highly questionable morally and possibly legally. Great melody and energy though and the guitar work throughout - lead, rhythm and bass - is outstanding especially the solo. Perhaps the best example of a massive hit song with a great melody but misunderstood lyrics is Every Breath You Take by The Police. It's not a love song but a stalker/controlling song. Not only that but I maintain Sting more than borrowed words and theme, intentionally or not, for Every You Breath You Take from Led Zeppelin's D'Yer Mak'er from 10 years earlier.

This is a textbook example of an unexpected different song contained within a song. The entire song of verse and chorus is consistent and integrated throughout. Straightforward. Direct, uncomplicated sections and production. Then, out of the blue, a monster guitar solo that the listener does not see coming blows your head off and then, flip the switch and we're back to the rest of the song. It's like they had My Sharona pretty much ready to record but it lacked that certain...something. On the side, the guitarist had this crazy solo thing he'd been working on, but it didn't really fit what the band was doing. So the band said, "Eff it! Just stick it in there, as is, near the end of the song. We'll do a short transition in and out, and we're done!" Honestly, I wish they had written a song that sounded a lot more like the solo. The rest of the song is just a little too...basic for my tastes. A number of songs have surprise moments where an entirely different song breaks out for a few bars, but this one takes the cake.

A friend told me in 1979 It's the Knack! Haha

I hope y’all listened to the album version or will have missed out on a greeeeeeeaaaaatttttttt guitar solo

Now listen to Weird Al's "My bologna"

Classic hit guys!! Love the review. Looking forward to the next reaction!🤘🔥

All right!!! Nary a pop song more potent than this vibe! I know you guys have never heard of K-Tel Records. but my brother & I used to roller skate in our basement listening to them...akin to a Spotify playlist nowadays..but this was on one of it's greatest hits of 1979 records! Check them out!

The Knack's follow-up hit "Good Girls Don't" reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. It's pretty catchy, too, but nothing compares to "My Sharona."

@monkeysuncle2816

Ай бұрын

She's your adolescent dream, Schoolboy stuff, a sticky sweet romance. And she makes you want to scream, Wishing you could get inside her pants. So, you fantasize away. And while you're squeezing her, you thought you heard her saying... "Good girls don't, Good girls don't, Good girls don't, but I do."

I had this on 8 track. Love the guitar solo

My favorite Knack song is "Good girls don't" Kinda dirty but very catchy!

can't wait.. gonna be good!!

if you google what "Sharona" looked like back in the day then you will totally get this song.

Fire

Love this song!

*This band had another really good song called GOOD GIRLS DON'T.*

@monkeysuncle2816

Ай бұрын

BUT *I* do...

Give it up? Never.

Nick the rock star ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️

this was always a fun song

❤Ben video chicos 😃

brilliant a classic

I always felt this song was somehow connected to Phil Collins’ “Sussudio”…..

I know I'm showing my age, but whenever I hear this I think of that movie Reality Bites

This song reminds me of cheech!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

My Scrotum...lol

what's still to come the one hit wonder reactions? black betty by ram jam, one night in bangkok by murray head, relax by frankie goes to hollywood ???

As others have stated, The Knack was not quite a one hit wonder. Good Girls Don't made it pretty high on the charts too. My Sharona is definitely on every top list.

AWESOME!!! Classic - Great pick!!!! From roughly the same era (one is late 70's, the other early 80's) I'd think you guys would like "Jeopardy" by The Greg Kihn Band. I know a lot of us would enjoy you reacting to it! 🫶 🎵🎧🎹🎷🎸🥁🎶

@laurakali6522

Ай бұрын

And then do Weird Al’s version.

@Chiari_Queen_T

Ай бұрын

​@@laurakali6522Lol.... yassssss!!!!👍

Nick! Please tell me what word you thought it was when you were a kid. In the comments, I've seen "bologna"...."scrotum". I have to know. Thanks, Buddy.

I appreciate that you included this in the marathon but this is not really a one hit wonder. Good Girls Don't was also a hit from this phenomenal debut record which is one of the finest debuts ever. Along the lines of Boston, The Cars and Van Halen and Foreigner from the same era.

❤❤❤

Good Girls Don't is a KILLER TUNE!

@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra

Ай бұрын

Definitely ISN'T.

@imtallpaul

Ай бұрын

@@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra I say it IS! ... Infinity....

@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra

Ай бұрын

@@imtallpaul Hilarious. 🤪🙄 Know anything about song-writing?? I thought so. The question isn't whether "you like it" or "think it's good" ...it's whether it is, actually, well-written (even if in a style some would find pedantic, boring, useless, et al.).

@imtallpaul

Ай бұрын

@@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra You tell me... You'll just have to guess. Have I written many song? Have I written sketches for comedians? Have I been in a band? Have I won awards for my art work? Have I booked bands and comedians for Harrah's Casino and Holiday Inns? Good Girls Don't is an excellent pop rock song. I'm sorry your intellect is getting in the way of enjoyment. I saw The Knack live in 00 when they were considered an oldies band. Doug Fieger RIP was singing. Awesome show.. Have a rockin' night

With this song, resistance is futile. It just grabs you and take you for a ride. And while you're free to be as modest and self-effacing as you like, Nick, you're obviously very bright. (We can't, of course, account for your 10 year-old self. Just kidding.😆)

This was NOT their only hit Good Girls Don’t got a lot of airplay and a very cool song

WE USED TO SAY ' MY MY MY MYYYY CORONA! 😊THERE WERE LOTSAAAA TOYOTA CORONA'S ON THE ROAD BACK THEN GUYS! 👍

@Coowallsky

Ай бұрын

Corolla?

@Chiari_Queen_T

Ай бұрын

Um, yea, I thought you were talking about a beer until you said Toyota and on the road. Bob, I'm quite sure you're friends were singing about beer and you were confused. I don't think ANYONE registered a Corona at DMV. (of course there's the anatomy meaning of Corona as well! - STILL never one registered at DMV!) Corona works better than Corolla, both because Corona rhymes, and nobody brags about their Corolla! 😆

No different than Winger's hit song, She's only Seventeen. Great tune, but a creepy.

" I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind " ?!? Slightly raunchy lyrics. Good beat, though.

@Willie_McBride

Ай бұрын

Close enough to be misheard as ‘other kind’, which gives them Plausible Deniability. I mean I was 13 when this song came out. So a few of the risqué lyrics & innuendos were lost on us… Didn’t take long to figure it out though. One thing that seems to go frequently unnoticed, and I’m writing mid video, I didn’t watch the whole thing yet, so I don’t know if the fellas are listening to the radio version or the album version but the guitar solo near the end of this song is straight up fucking FILTHY!

Check out this same group and their song "Good Girls Don't". I always wondered if it is the sequel or a different girl. Much more explicit lyrics. They really were not a one hit wonder.

Earworm

Disappointed that Me and Mrs Jones by Billy Paul didn’t make your one-hit wonder marathon. Maybe next time…😢

@ViewsFromThe502

Ай бұрын

Peep the pinned comment 🫠

@Coowallsky

Ай бұрын

Others have posted it successfully.

@elainemarsh3477

Ай бұрын

@@ViewsFromThe502 Interesting...many have reacted to it on KZread...I wonder what the issue is?!

The tastiest guitarist 🎸 /artist that ever lived ( RIP) . Tommy Bolin- Poat Toastee (1976) Minds will be blown!

@lisalisa13

Ай бұрын

Or his song Homeward Strut. Both so good.

@williamweiss6128

Ай бұрын

Busting Out For Rosie....

@jgsrhythm100

Ай бұрын

@@williamweiss6128 Woohoo! Crisp & toasty

@jgsrhythm100

Ай бұрын

@@lisalisa13 Jeff Pocaro(Toto)on drums!!

@jgsrhythm100

Ай бұрын

@lisalisa13 Homeward Strut is a great follow up. It's an instrumental so would show only one side of his talent.. Of course love ❤️ Homeward Strut. Thinking Post Toasty has both vocals, amazing arrangements, and playing. It's the best introduction to show what he's all about.

The guitar solo is KEY to this song. Sadly left out of this version.

Please tell me these have heard this song before!

The Knack is NOT a one-hit wonder. Check out Good Girls Don't, which was a very big hit. At least it was in Canada.

I actually thought that this song was about a kind of car [a Sharona definitely sounds like a vehicle!]. ...Yes, later, I got the album and read or understood the lyrics and ...changed my mind 😛 ...but still. (C'mon!! People in California, EASILY, love their cars more than their significant others! - or: at least as MUCH! 😛!)

*The pedophile anthem!!!!* Still one of my favorite solos ever!!!!! Not technically a one hit wonder cuz they had one other hit. however it's on the same album so....... The other was Good Girls Don't kzread.info/dash/bejne/hIdst7OGl7DRn84.html Put it in as honorable mention lol I think you guys would really dig it. ✌Peace✌

~ 😂😂

This wasn’t a 1 hit wonder. Other big hit from them (The Knack) was “Good Girls Don’t” from this same album “Get The Knack”.

And when you react to moxie sail on sail away get ready to pause it so you can put it on your playlist

My Scrotum

If you are even a casual guitar player start with the rythym.