Knack - Round Trip
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Artist: KnackEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-05-07
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Radiating Love
- Soul Kissin'
- Africa
- She Likes The Beat
- Just Wait And See
- We Are Waiting
- Boys Go Crazy
- Lil' Cals Big Mistake
- Sweet Dreams
- Another Lousy Day In Paradise
- Pay The Devil (Ooo Baby Ooo)
- Art War
- Go Away, Stay Away (bonus track)
- Lil' Cals Big Mistake (live) (bonus track)
- Art War (alternate mix)
- On The Beach (rehearsal)
- Pay The Devil (Ooo Baby Ooo) (demo) (bonus track)
Free Music Notes for Round Trip
Free Music Review: The Knack come full circle
Hit: 4 Stars
Everyone knows the story. Little band from Los Angeles explodes from nowhere and have huge hit. Hipsters immediately loathe them. Band engages in self-destructive behaviour and then releases second-rate follow-up album. Just as quickly as it novaed, it imploded. The Knack had become pariahs.
"Round Trip" was released a bit less than two years after "But the Little Girls Understand," and saw the band both licking its wounds and trying like mad to break away from the diminished expectations laid forth by the meteoric rise and just as dramatic fall. Mike Chapman was tossed aside in favor of producer Jack Douglas ("Double Fantasy" and "The Up Escalator"), and the album was more produced than the legendary $18,000 rapid-fire "Get the Knack." There was still plenty of readily identifiable sounds; both "Radiating Love" and "Just Wait and See" are Beatlesque, and "Boys Go Crazy" is cut from the same cloth as "Frustrated" and "Baby Talks Dirty."
The big revelations are the jazzy pop confection of "Africa" and "Lil Cal's Big Mistake." The later features a horn section and quick pass to Was (Not Was) (Fieger was a guest vocalist on ""Born to Laugh At Tornadoes") in the verse "Fagenson looked out of his window...Don swore he was singing..." Flo and Eddie sang, members Toto of jammed, there is even a verse in Hebrew on "We Are Waiting For You." "Art Wars" and "Sweet Dreams" experiment with sounds (backwards guitars and a rack-rap). There were touches of Steely Dan and country to make sure everyone knew that The Knack were no longer just a skinny-tie pop band. The first single, "Pay The Devil (Ooh Baby Ooh)" was in waltz time. "Round Trip" was a sophisticated effort and a big bid for respectability, and I really dug it back on its original release.
But the backlash was just too deep, and "Round Trip" quickly and quietly flopped. Doug Fieger and the late Bruce Gary were feuding so heavily that - along with the lack of success awarded "Round Trip" - the band broke up a few months later. This album didn't even make it to CD until this 2002 issue some 20 years later. I may be in a minority but I was thrilled to get this on CD. I like it more that the "Serious Fun" reunion, and "Round Trip" still rates spins in my library.
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