Song #344: "I Want Ya"--The Knack (1980)

The flaming-hot, but short-lived star rockers of the turn of the decade are back with another entry, this time from the much-less successful second LP, "But The Little Girls Understand".

As my all-time favorite television show is "The Flintstones", the back end of The Knack's career reminds me of the episode where Fred becomes this out-of-nowhere teen idol rock star named "Hi-Fye". Thanks to his hit, "Rockin' Bird", Fred ends up on a seemingly never-ending tour from town to town, that is, until Wilma and Betty devise a plan to end it all and get back home. (Hint: it has to do with a geometric shape that wasn't considered cool back in the Kennedy years....)

Well, The Knack last a little, but not much longer than a 30-minute episode of a television show.

Today's song never was a single, but, as cut two of the album, received immediate attention once I had bought my copy. Basic Knack formula here, and, even though the second album fails woefully by comparison to "Get The Knack" in most cuts, this song and "The Hard Way", hold up well, and, in my opinion, could've been on the first LP and held their own easily.

The rest of the album?  Oh, boy, how the mighty fell as quickly as they rose. More on that meteoric rise later on down the road.  :)