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The Knack - Normal As the Next Guy Audio CD

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The Knack Band: The Knack
Title: Normal As the Next Guy
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Release Date: 2001-09-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Girls 2: Disillusion Town 3: Girl I Never Lied to You 4: Normal as the Next Guy 5: Spiritual Pursuit 6: It's Not Me 7: One Day at a Time 8: Seven Days of Heaven 9: Dance of Romance 10: Reason to Live 11: World of My Own 12: Man on the Beach

Got the Knack, then lost them
Doug must be back on drugs again. Horrible album cover, and the music is even worse. Not one song on this collection is memorable, singable, or any damned good. Are these guys the ones who did My Sharona? Wonder who wrote Sharona for them? This album blows. They should have hung it up after Serious Fun.


A few good songs surrounded by CRAP!
Les Girls
Terrible. 1. What a bad way to get this CD off to a start!

2. Disillusion Town
Quality Knack!

3. Girl I Never Lied To You
Decent Pop track.

4. Normal As The Next Guy
Total Junk!

5. Spiritual Pursuit
What a load of CRAP! What were they thinking? A joke? Who cares!

6. It's Not Me
Decent Pop.

7. One Day At A Time
This is a classic Knack tune but they already released this way back on "Serious Fun" and THAT version was better! I guess they were at a loss for material for this release?

8. Seven Days Of Romance
Actually the title is "Seven Days Of Heaven" and it's a great Knack pop song!

9. Dance Of Romance
Horrible, Horrible CRAP!

10. Reason To Live
Doug should have not gone for the high notes in this tune (his range is not what it once was) but this is a very moving and powerful song!

11. A World Of My Own
Decent Knack tune. . . but you can take it or leave it.

12. The Man On The Beach
Great "beach boys" style tune but could have been produced to offer a more "expanded" sound. The limited production leaves it far short of beach boys territory.

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This was a great chance for the Knack to make some waves (they had a deal with Image to release this CD and a DVD at the same time). They totally dropped the ball and delivered this MESS. There's some good Knack tunes on this disk but only a Knack fan will want to wade through the junk to find them.

-JM.


Revisited after 4 years and it still stinks
Here is a copy of that review:
What Happened To This Band?, October 11, 2001
I was excited to get this record as The Knack have always been a true force in power pop and one of my favorite bands. I wrote a review of this CD in 2001. This is why I feel so bad about this review. Something went terribly wrong with this recording. The songs are third rate, the production is way off, The drums or lack there of are totally amateurish. There's even a horrible Beach Boys tribute song included. Doug is no Brian Wilson!! Don't get this Knack. .
(2005)
Being a true Knack fan I was so excited to hear it. I couldn't believe my ears. What a miserable boring album. Just the other day I decided to give it another listen thinking I would be open minded. Guess what? It still stinks. .


Must have
Excellent album , a must have for Knack fans! I just recieved it for Christmas, you wont be disappointed!Check out the album 61/49 great also.


The good, the bad and the ugly
Worth owning for a Knack fan. . but this disc is not without some real duds. I think the Knack should have taken a little longer to put this CD together (they even re-used/re-recorded a previous song - "one step at a time").

You won't want to miss "reason to live", "man on the beach", "disillusion town", "world of my own" and "seven days of heaven".

Unfortunately "normal as the next guy" is quite aweful and "spiritual pursuit" will leave you asking "what were they thinking" ??? Eeven if that track is a joke it has no place here. Finally "les girls" sure gets this CD off to the wrong start. . .

At any rate, worth owning for the good - and you can skip over the bad and ugly.


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