The Knack-"My Sharona"

[Joe1240]

This song was one of the biggest hits in 1979. The song spent 6 weeks at #1 on Billboard. Rock Critics at the time throught this band would become the Next Beatles but that didn't happen. The Band is currently a 70s One Hit Wonder. The song was the biggest selling single of 1979.

[jimmy74747]

Great song. It had a resurgence in the mid-90's when it appeared on the Reality Bites soundtrack.

[Hervard]

Joe1240 said:

This song was one of the biggest hits in 1979. The song spent 6 weeks at #1 on Billboard.

[Deleted]

I can't stand it.

[mst3k]

I love it!

I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind...

[Hervard]

Chicago DJ Steve Dahl did a parody of this song, called "Ayatollah". It was so cool; one cool part is the fact that he shortened that long instrumental bridge in the middle of the song to just fifteen seconds or so.

Ooh you got a real nice beard
A real nice beard
You know it really catches my AYATOLLAH!

[stevie nice]

The album "Get The Knack," that this is taken from, is actually really good, if u can get past the fact that they look like members of Monty Python posing as the Beatles (the Rutles.) "Your Number or Your Name," "Frustrated" and "She's So Selfish" are IMHO first rate power pop stuff. and "Good Girls Don't" was another top 10 from here.

The chick on the 45 sleeve was cute, with tight white tshirt and nipples poking thru, b4 that became common place, (Farrah, and Bonnie Franklin were early champions of this look.)

We used to sit around wondering whether long version would get played on top 40 outfit which would occassionally play the longer guitar solo, and then would get upset when the short edit was the one used. curses, foiled again...

[stevie nice]

I also like the carbon copy ripoff of this song by them, "Baby Talks Dirty." Good use of reworking your own material.

[mst3k]

Chad said:

The chick on the 45 sleeve was cute, with tight white tshirt and nipples poking thru, b4 that became common place, (Farrah, and Bonnie Franklin were early champions of this look.)

Bonnie Franklin = the mom on "One Day At A Time"?

[stevie nice]

mst3k said:

Bonnie Franklin = the mom on "One Day At A Time"? 

yeah, she wasn't very good looking but u couldn't deny the nipples that she sported in most of the EPs.

[tico]

It got overplayed.

[NORTHCOAST]

Never liked it. 

[strong4PMB!]

I like "My Bologna" better! :)

[reception]

KQMQ plays it a lot. Here's a full clip.

[NORTHCOAST]

I went to a 25th Wedding Anniversary party this weekend and they played all music from that era including My Sharona. Today on the radio they played a spoof called My Menorah.

[Chato]

A perfect piece of Power-Pop.

[disman00911]

Was overplayed on classic hits radio but I don't mind it now and then.

my sharona.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2JtsVumFA

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Classic.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#201 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: The swaggering power-pop banger that muscled into the top 40 with enough force to end up the Hot 100’s top song of 1979 — a year otherwise completely dominated by disco.

These Words: “My Sharona” is certainly one for the Couldn’t Get Away With That Today file, both due to the implied lewdness (“Running down the length of my thighs, Sharona”) and creepiness (“I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind”) of its lyrics — but for its time, it was the perfect meeting of rock edginess and pop songcraft.

Hollywood Nights: Unlike Lisa Loeb’s runaway hit, “My Sharona” was actually featured pre-credits in 1994 Gen-X dramedy Reality Bites — with the main characters dancing along to it in a gas station store — as well as on the soundtrack, and even subsequently re-charted on the Hot 100, hitting No. 91.