Editing Get the Knack (section)

==Release and reception==
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AllmusicReview">{{cite web|last=Woodstra|first=Chris|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/get-the-knack-mw0000203259|title=Get the Knack – The Knack|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=November 3, 2020}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Nelson|first=Chris|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|chapter=The Knack|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/462 462–63]}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Smash Hits]]''
|rev3score = 5/10<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Starr|first=Red|title=Albums|magazine=[[Smash Hits]]|volume=1|issue=18|date=August 9–22, 1979|page=25}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
|rev4score = B−<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv9-79.php|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide|work=[[The Village Voice]]|date=September 3, 1979|accessdate=July 3, 2011}}</ref>
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''Get the Knack'' was released in June 1979 and became an immediate success, thanks in part to an intense promotional campaign by Capitol Records. The Knack's image was largely influenced by [[the Beatles]]. The album cover imitates the Beatles' first Capitol LP, ''[[Meet the Beatles!]]'', and the back cover photo depicts a scene from the Beatles' film ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]''. To complete the Beatle imagery, the 1960s Capitol rainbow label adorned the LP, a detail the band had written into its contract. The album obtained a gold [[RIAA certification|certification]] from the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA) in just 13 days, becoming Capitol Records' fastest selling debut LP since ''Meet the Beatles!'' in 1964. In August, the album reached number one on the ''Billboard'' 200, where it remained for five weeks, and was certified platinum by the RIAA for one million copies sold. The lead single, "My Sharona", also met with immediate success, becoming Capitol's fastest selling debut single since the Beatles' "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" and staying at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for six weeks.<ref name=atkinson>{{cite magazine|last=Atkinson|first=Terry|title=The Knack: yesterday...and today|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=October 18, 1979|pages=32, 35–37}}</ref>

A backlash against the Knack's overnight success formed among critics who found the band's image too contrived and their attitude too brash. [[San Francisco]] [[conceptual art]]ist Hugh Brown, who had designed [[the Clash]]'s ''[[Give 'Em Enough Rope]]'' album cover, started a "Knuke the Knack" campaign complete with T-shirts, buttons and bumper stickers. Some music writers began to criticize the band for what they perceived as arrogance, hype and a [[misogyny|misogynist]] attitude expressed in their songs.<ref name=hilburn>{{cite news|last=Hilburn|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Hilburn|title=A Knack on the Door for L.A. Rock|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 29, 1979|page=L1}}</ref><ref name=dissent>{{cite news|last=McKenna|first=Kristine|author-link=Kristine McKenna|title=Knack: A Dissenting View|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 29, 1979|page=L64}}</ref> The band's refusal to do interviews was also viewed negatively by the music press. One entertainment weekly, ''[[Cleveland Scene|Scene]]'' magazine, refused to publish a review of the Knack's concert in [[Cleveland]] due to what it called "attempts at censorship" by the band's management.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ed|title=Live Wire|work=[[Cleveland Scene|Scene]]|date=October 11–17, 1979}}</ref>

[[Robert Christgau]] of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' was critical of the album's misogynistic themes and remarked that if the Knack "felt this way about girls when they were unknowns, I shudder to think how they're reacting to groupies." However, Christgau countered critics who had dismissed the band on "purely technical terms", arguing that "if they're less engaging musically than, say, [[the Scruffs]], they have a lot more pop and power going for them than, say, [[the Real Kids]]."<ref name="Christgau"/> ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' critic Dick Nusser was particularly complimentary of tracks such as "Let Me Out", "Maybe Tonight" and "That's What the Little Girls Do", while noting that the pleading song "Oh Tara" indicates that the Knack "aren't strict girl haters."<ref name=billboard>{{cite magazine|last=Nusser|first=Dick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT107|title=The Knack: Get the Knack|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|volume=91|issue=30|date=July 28, 1979|accessdate=July 14, 2011|pages=52, 66}}</ref>