Get The Knack
by The Knack
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Get The Knack is ranked as the best album by The Knack.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/09/2025 01:10 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,336 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 07:31 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2025 10:22 | Nikola | 173 | 86/100 |
| ! | 12/04/2024 16:51 | boppare | 2,863 | 78/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2024 20:46 | dougcummings | 2,027 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.0/100, a mean average of 67.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.
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VictorVale 06/01/2022 15:56 | #285905
Clássico do power pop!!
indieshins 09/30/2021 10:06 | #274459 | TOP COMMENT
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Nothing groundbreaking, but a fun and catchy record that is much, much more than My Sharona. The lyrical content is trite and honestly pretty sexist, but ignore that (which is fairly easy to do), and it's full of great tunes.
TheDude85 04/19/2019 21:07 | #235242
Sophomoric? Undoubtedly. Catchy as Hell? Hell, yes! Easily dismissed as only the idiot riff of "My Sharona" The Knack put together a near perfect combination of guitars, beats and adolescent frustration as an alt-pop confection. One of my favorites.
1 hit wonder..... move along........
My Sharona is a kick-ass single with one of the greatest octave hooks of all time, and it tricked a lot of people into buying an album that would have been a zero without that single. This thing is a mess. (And yes, I bought it when it came out and still have it in the SHAME section of my collection, hanging out with Naked Eyes and The Partridge Family.)
One of the greatest pop singles of all time in My Sharona, this band was very talented all around. Good Girls Don't, Your Number or Your Name, Oh Tara. Monster album at the time and it holds up well.
Romanelli 12/22/2013 21:05 | #98396 | TOP COMMENT
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Not session guys, so your entire premise is flawed. Raw, energetic rock & roll from a young, hungry band that was killed not by fans, but by the press. This album has as much energy as anything produced in the decade. Or the one after it.
Graeme2 12/22/2013 20:35 | #98389
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Romanelli 02/09/2011 19:07 | #18234 | TOP COMMENT
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People hate this band because they listen to the rock & roll press. The press hated them...and they killed them. Get The Knack is a very good album. Too bad we were all told it wasn't by writers who didn't like the fact that they were inaccessible to them. This is that next great Cheap Trick album that never came.
Good drummer-
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