#1247 The Knack - Get the Knack

This can't quite decide what it wants to be: broadly agreeable in a Thin Lizzy / Paul McCartney kind of way, or arch and new wave in an Elvis Costello kind of way. The result is a tease: rarely fun, rarely cool, riding the same basic chorus-hook too hard, with few surprises along the way. Except My Sharona, which is fun, cool, surprising, deservedly a hit, absolutely an outlier on this otherwise forgettable album 2.5/5