C/D: "My Sharona"

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The guitar solo on this song rules.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 29 July 2004 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link

It took years of hearing this, or at least the classic first couple minutes, before I realized that there was a guitar solo at the end. That solo sounds really out of place to me now, but that's because I was so used to the initial hook on it's own.

Classic hook.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link

(Clem Burke vs Bruce Gary) vs ("Good Girls Don't" vs "Uncontrollable Urge") vs ("(She's So) Selfish vs. (You're So) Physical")

― dave q, Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link

hah, I listened to Uncontrollable Urge five times yesterday... yep.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link

This song is the bane of my existence.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I think "Welfare Mothers" is a Devo parody (xpost Derrick)

― dave q, Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, and BC Lotto Corp. turned it into a lottery ad.

big big BIG big BIG, (big) big big BIG big BIG, (big) big big BIG big BIG, BIG big BIG BIG... etc.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 29 July 2004 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks for bringing that back into my consciousness, derrick

― Symplistic (shmuel), Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Classic, except when it's in a film with that bloke that can never quite grow a mustache.

― mzui, Thursday, 29 July 2004 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link

so epic. amazing

― Markusj (Mark Jasper), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:09 (nineteen years ago) link

my bologna.. has a first name

― reo, Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I despised it then; it merely bores me now.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i love it

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 29 July 2004 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Complete classic. Sorry, it's just a fact.

Rewritten by Killing Joke and re-titled "Tension," it became even finer.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

oh I remember that one. B-side, wasn't it? Empire song?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Worst use of "My Sharona": Everlast's first record (pre-House of Pain) on "I Got the Knack"

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link

The b-side to "Follow the Leaders" originally, if I'm not mistaken.

http://studio-c.co.uk/killingjoke/KJ4P.JPG

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

~Oh yeah. The two singles I bought at the time.

It was Brilliant, the other one, yeah?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I believe so....or was it "Chop Chop"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

That was the single after "Follow the leader" i'm fairly certain...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

So so sick of this song = dud.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Jerry Casale is on record as saying that Devo's "Girl U Want" was a direct rip of "My Sharona".

TS: "My Sharona" v. "Girl U Want."

― mike a, Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Great track, but the guitar solo middle-8 almost ruins it - it's a completely different song (and not in a good way)

Also, without this song, no "It's Tricky", no "No Good Advice" and no Nirvana: "We're basically Black Sabbath molesting The Knack" said Cobain - I think.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Jerry Casale is on record as saying that Devo's "Girl U Want" was a direct rip of "My Sharona".

TS: "My Sharona" v. "Girl U Want."

Wow...that's a thread all its own, Mike.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Classic and classic again for the legacy it's left.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 29 July 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

doo-doo da-da doo da doo da doo-doo da bah-um-doo da-da doo da dan-da-dan-dan

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Fucking classic pop song. I love the way he sings all sleazy and breathy in the verses.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I will go so far as to make the daring statement that if you hate this song, you hate fun.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

First song I ever learned on bass. And then distorted the bass to all hell and did a death metal cover with some friends. It was fun.

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 29 July 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

we just had an acoustic guitar and an organ and we discovered the bass line was just note--> up one octave same note -> down again etc. and we liked "whats that running down your thigh SHARONA?!!!"

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 29 July 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

"whats that running down your thigh SHARONA?!!!"

Err...isn't it feel a sense of victory runnin' up the length of my thigh, Sharona!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Total classic! Belongs in the Pantheon of great rock songs. True story;

The first time I heard the song was on the radio, whatever year it was (1978?) and the DJ flipped out and played it three times in a row, back to back to back. This was on some Hartford, CT station.

― Davlo (Davlo), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Great song--great album. The solo is fine. Perhaps the person who didn't remember it having one heard the radio edit? (Well, I assume it's a radio edit--it's a jukebox 45 that I have).

I like the reference to it on the Nash Kato record (which was really good...)

― John 2, Friday, 30 July 2004 02:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess it's a classic, kinda undeniable. But I'm sick of the fucking song.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 30 July 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Hardly their best moment. "Good Girls Don't" was classy though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

thread

Would you be willing to share with us how you/you guys came up with the first lead break changes in “My Sharona” @Averre13 ? It’s a wicked change/movement. Kind of Who-like, but more jangly. Just came up on my radio. Thanks
— Joe Pernice (@JPernicious) November 11, 2020

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link

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