Why Oh Why Oh Why

Did The Knack choose to record Nick Lowe's I Knew The Bride? I finally got a copy of the 1979 release Get The Knack, which is a pretty solid album. Unfortunately I listened to the bonus tracks.

Dave Edmund's recorded it in 77 so did Status Quo. But why did The Knack have to do it? Sure they were of the same old school almost punk style that Nick wrote for, but when they got their hot little hands on that number they really just massacred it.

I guess that's why it was just a rehearsal cut that didn't make an album until much later when record companies scrambled to find any bonus material they could.

This is one bonus track I could live without though. I've listened to it several times this morning hoping that I would change my mind.

Nope.

Its a combination of it being played just a bit too fast and the lead singer's voice just not doing it justice.

Avoid this song, if you like Nick or Dave, for I fear you'll end up angry like I am right now.

Bizarre Cover Song

OMG! That was pretty much what I said when I heard Enuff Z'Nuff's cover of Tears Of A Clown.

It was so bizarre that I listened to it more times than anyone should have to listen to any given song that they are undecided about. It's like a gory accident, you just keep coming back to it.

But back in the day, when I was known to listen to bands like Poison and Def Leppard (OK, I still listen to Da Leps on ocassion) this was another band I liked, mostly because I liked that they took a bit of the 60's psychedelicness and ran with it in their sound.

I've always had a fondness for the 60's. Bet you haven't guessed that, right?

New Thing and Fly High Michele were 2 songs I really liked. I think it helped that Rick Nielson and Robin Zander from Cheap Trick appeared on their first album.

But back to the song in question, it's just so...so...so...indescribable that you'll just have to listen to it yourself. That way you can be left with that same feeling of shock, awe, disgust or perhaps its just that WTF feeling of a song that's definitely not supposed to sound this way.