The Knack - "Good Girls Don't" - Carnegie Hall, 1979

[@jayvonck3311]

Born in 1963! Man did I grow up with awesome bands

[@lynneufeld3175]

So was I! My brother had this album and Mum played this song LOL

[@speed6407]

I was born in 63 also I would play this album When I was in my room making out with one of the most attractive girls I Ever dated. She was 15 and wild . Great Memories!

[@jimroscovius]

Born in 1958. Perfect time!!

[@foto21]

I can't believe a band had this much balls to do this song and release it to the public. So honest and so dirty for a pop song. TBH, though, it's more the package it was delivered in than what he said. This made it on to AM radio. The other thing about the Knack is this record shared in the best production standards of the time (the late 70s, so ALL TIME). Clean but still rocking and punchy, with acres of headroom.

[@67Jazzmaster]

I remember playing this loud at home and my sister told my mom on me! lol.

[@LLcoolDel]

At least nobody died or was shot in the making of this song. THANK THE LORD!!!

[@whodude68]

Try listening to anything by Ted Nugent. Pushed the very limits of smut and perversion.

[@christopherschnieders4369]

great fun & now pretty tame by WAP standards

[@foto21]

That's a much less funny song though.@@christopherschnieders4369

[@branchmint2091]

I was at this concert! It was my first concert. I was 16.

[@Wilson.katie815]

Branch Mint what year was this

[@stuart5811]

I was 16 that year and saw the Cars perform. We were lucky

[@stuart5811]

lucky

[@philbrown1474]

@BC FOSTER You’re a true perv.

[@drumboogie66]

Hey that is a beautiful memory🎸👍

[@jamesgibson2981]

I was at work and out of nowhere "Good Girls Don't" pops into my head after not hearing the song for years!! "The Knack" is back!! Can't stop listening to em now!!

[@nmb5588]

Summer of '79 rocked. My Sharona was my fav!

[@just_lisa1931]

Same!!

[@taurbaby]

I remember hearing the dirty version on the radio....man, what a gem of a song and a fantastic video!!... subscribed!!

[@RXHoratio52]

74,000 views? Where is everybody? The Hottest band in 1979. In the world and they had incredible competition. Cars, Police, Kiss, Boston, etc;

[@gregwarren8591]

Love dougs facial expressions! RIP

[@markradzwion5547]

Dammit!! You know they were good when they sound as good live as in the studio!! I wore TWO 8-tracks of GET the KNACK out back in the day.

[@VirginiaBeach742]

Loved this whole album. Saw this tour, Romantics opened. Boston

[@Hammster69official]

...and best of all, it's the uncensored version! ^_^

[@stevetillcock7361]

It made a HUGE impression on me post high school. I have their first LP. Sadly the singer succumbed to throut cancer.

[@Papparratzi]

Brings back some great memories of those days. Later Doug had a band called Taking Chances, he would come by my home with a guy named Paul Greenwood for our partyramaganza. Rest In Peace ole bud, you did your thing like no one else

[@whodude68]

Brilliant tune done very tightly indeed! I hear The Who and The Sweet in this.

[@michellesupport89]

This song rocks!!! "And it feels real good" haha. Nice one Doug. RIP Doug Fieger. He and The Knack belong in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

[@tryithere]

Ummmm, they had two hits.

[@philbrown1474]

LOLOL ahead of Jethro Tull and Grand Funk??😂😂😂😂

[@VivaSepulchre]

Ever hear of the replacements? They deserve in first by far. The Knack lol

[@AppleMan531]

I was at this show. I was 2nd on line as we slept out overnight in front of Carnegie Hall for tickets.

[@JMarkJones]

Fall of 79, 71 Nova, senior in high school, eight track Get the Knack!

[@carlhicksjr8401]

Yeah, this IS one of my favorite songs from my admittedly misspent youth. Why do you ask, officer? 😁😆 RIP Doug. Jokes aside 'Get the Knack' is one of the five albums that encapsulates the 'Death to Disco' era for me.

[@gregoryyoung8819]

The Knack were so well rehearsed, that when they went into the recording studio, the only thing the producer had to do was to hit record. The band got it on the first few takes. They played and recorded as a band. Hard to find that today.

[@jakerock_]

fuckin BLAAZING! and that fancy ass country guitar throughout. Fantastic.

[@brucelevy7049]

An underrated genius, Saw him in a pre-Knack band called the Sunset Bombers. Great song . . .

[@thomasbrennan5286]

This eas my favorite version

[@matthewchild]

Great song by an incredible live band.

[@scottjackson1420]

Outstanding guitarist and drummer.

[@MattSyversonthePaperbackRocker]

Lead guitarist is amazing.

[@marilouclaytor4443]

He does lots more than carry his part. He holds his own with a great vocalist!

[@BryanHagerla]

Oh yeah!!! I had this album on vinyl man!!! I remember when Sharona came out; kept hearing it on the radio like 10x a day, then I finally figured out the group/album after buying a Greg Khin record by mistake!!!

[@1dawnf]

greg kihn is good too

[@NotAFanAnymore]

So fucken tight. Amazing band. Brilliant musicians. Bless em. What happened

[@marccresta5660]

Yes !! The uncut real F--king lyrics...Yes !!!

[@Hammster69official]

I always love to hear the uncensored version! ^_^

[@donaldfewell9929]

sensorship sucks

[@focusedmessagemarketing958]

GET THE KNACK-In 2019 and beyond.

[@studeitcher5505]

Man, I really miss the awesome seventies.....GREAT stuff

[@tonyfriend7413]

I don't! don't look back.

[@crapple009]

Mom always confused The Knack with Cheap Trick. Bless her!

[@markrush5013]

they were amazing! insanely good songs!

[@thomasbrennan5286]

This was the year I graduated

[@user-jt9sv6ib2u]

such an underrated band ....great musos!

[@MrBizzarobrian]

Seen them on their first tour.One of thee best shows I`ve seen.

[@LittleDragon2000]

Real power pop with real lyric. FAB!

[@mtrask3970]

The Knack, kicking ass and sounding alot like the Kinks....

[@99kr89]

knackの中で一番のれる曲たね！ 最高❗ 俺、武道館に行ったよ❗❗

[@mikecollins1288]

Wow, what a powerful memory. - Thanks

[@johnsmith-cv1lp]

15 year old and my GF and i would thrash Get The Knack 1979 no better song .. when hormones r raging .wed dance and sing along with this

[@MrRlwiley]

these guys were good.

[@acmecompany]

Good stuff! When music was a art.

[@LLcoolDel]

A GREAT ALBUM IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT WHO CARES.

[@MikeBrown-ty9wk]

This was what I live for I really miss the KNACK MR POSTIVE SPEAKS...MIKE BRWN BOBBI'S LITTKE BROTHER

[@LittleDragon2000]

And very popular in colleges too

[@Paleoman]

RIP Doug Fieger . Sadly gone way too soon.

[@tryithere]

So was the drummer. Even earlier.

[@paleoman8854]

@@tryithere what happened with him?

[@tryithere]

@@paleoman8854 Drum stick through the eye. J/K cancer.

[@glen6945]

ohhhh yeah

[@dynjarren7523]

The Knack played Carnegie Hall? That’s a high point for any band to play that venue along with Madison Square Garden. And yet they are not in the HOF because the damn critics painted them as phony Beatles or posers because they wore suits. Ridiculous! That first album sold millions and on that tour they were the number one hottest rock band in the world for a year! Okay, later everything collapsed but that’s due to the bad press they got! They belong in the HOF!

[@scottsansone9343]

Thank you

[@tryithere]

They had two songs.

[@Bevity]

tryithere But that's the point. They should have had more songs but they were up against it.

[@markradzwion5547]

@@tryithere You're outta your mind. Oh Tara, Maybe tonight, My Sharon, Thats what the little girls do, Your number or your name, Shes so Selfish, Lucinda, Frustrated, Heartbeat. You should actually listen to these guys before you pop off like a dummy.

[@tryithere]

@@markradzwion5547 I should have said "Two good songs."

[@boataxe4605]

Cool! A hit song about having your face sat upon ! 😛

[@dahur]

Sound great live..!

[@lonlevinholler74]

The original lyrics!

[@johnschurchill3331]

Unfairly maligned but a really good power pop band.

[@foto21]

I think history is proving good to them, but you're right, they were derided for years, although they did dig their own grave a bit with song choices.

[@gs8388]

Who knew Wolowitz from Big Bang Theory was once in a band? Seriously, great song from that era.

[@laceyunderall22]

I think he looks very much like Jack Tripper/ John Ritter.

[@getyerkix]

RIP Doug...

[@bosem1082]

RIP the drummer Bruce Gary too...

[@gregoryyoung8819]

Many people wrote the Knack off as a one hit wonder. So untrue.

[@javasol09]

Awesome live version. Fieger reminds me of a cross between John Lennon and Christopher Lee. Charismatic but spooky.

[@davidcthompson6621]

I remember when the boys were fired for spitting sunflower shells on the floor of my ex-brother in law's bar floor In Quatz Hill, CA. Before they had an album.

[@moistmike4150]

Loved the stuff that Knack released - very good quality pop/rock. Though I've always thought Feiger looked totally creepy.

[@pingpong2456]

They played their songs very fast which you don't see much anymore

[@slide4180]

+Ping Pong And they play real instruments and sing and write their own songs - which you don't see much anymore!

[@DMV66]

👌🏼😍🤩👍🏼👏👏👏👏

[@jayanxiety]

For a very brief moment, these guys were being hyped as the "second coming" of The Beatles. Their debut album sold millions in short time. Though as fast as their meteoric rise was, their fall was even swifter. Bad press about the band's alleged "standoffish" attitude towards interviewers and fans turned things sour, as did rumors of lead singer, Doug Feiger's supposed "hatred" towards women (due to the lyrics of a number of the band's songs) and backlash against their fast rise to fame were just a few factors in the subsequent poor sales of followup releases.

[@ddrissel]

Sad. I never really knew what happened to this band. I bought their debut album soon after it came out in 1979 when I was a senior in college. I loved it! I had left progressive rock and disco mostly behind, as I was entering my new wave and punk phase with bands like the Knack!

[@daveinmilwaukee]

@@ddrissel @ Big Dave . . . Greetings from one Dave to another! We're probably about the same age . . . old! I was also starting my senior year in college in Fall '79. Get the Knack was the hottest new album and seemed to be blasting out of every stereo and jukebox on campus. These guys were a hell of a lot of fun and had such a bright, fresh, and exciting new sound. The Knack, The Cars, Cheap Trick, Boston, Billy Joel, Pat Benatar, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, etc . . . what a great time to be a music fan!

[@foto21]

I think what really did it was their early hits were light but amazing power pop, and they just couldn't match them fast enough. I think they rotated towards something wildly different and it didn't catch fire. Standards for bands in the 1970s were very high, and it was easy to fault these guys compared to all the 'serious' music out there. Today, they'd have no competition!

[@perpetualgrin5804]

They look like they were really enjoying themselves😅.

[@daveblakney6787]

i think that's lester bangs standing stage side

[@Wilson.katie815]

Such funny lyrics

[@prdiver64]

Very underappreciated and apparently poorly managed, yet, they still turned out some iconic music in a very crowded '80s Punk scene

[@l.bailey4791]

Knack

[@kenaudette3360]

The lead singer looks exactly like Pete Townshend from The Who.

[@dizbang3073]

let's hear it for lust!

[@oriolesfan61]

The dirty version

[@slide4180]

Put a curly wig on Daniel Tosh and you've got Berton Averre.

[@tryithere]

They were such a flash in the pan. It must have been incredible for them while they were flashing.

[@mylesjs5326]

It looks like Adam Samberg on guitar.

[@paulenedougherty1423]

Anthem of randy teenagers everywhere

[@donaldfewell772]

@crapple009: interesting. Maybe she had a mental mashup of "good Girls don't" and "surrender". My father knew and liked two Beatles' songs, "Michelle" and "Yesterday". My mother would've glazed over if one mentioned the Beatles. They loved classical music most of all.

[@1dawnf]

i think theyre more punk, and rock.. then cheap trck, who to me always reminds me ov=f a cover band, and I love them..

[@camcoop25]

Great power pop, but the lyrics are pretty much high school pervy stuff

[@boataxe4605]

And what's wrong with that?????

[@johnsmith-cv1lp]

Nothing pervy about it .Exactly how it was back then . Know many girls exactly like what hes singing about

[@stabbedwestward725]

omg. this dude looks like chevy chase XD

[@waveblast2]

wish they panned the audience when he spouted those irreverent lyrics, haa