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# Music Appreciation - My Sharona
- URL: https://www.sweatyspice.com/music-appreciation-my-sharona/
- Published: 2024-06-02T12:04:49.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-02T12:04:49.000Z
- Description: Burned out in radio air play, the full version by The Knack is a sleeper, and a killer tune in retrospect.
- Author: Geoff Anderson

Since my audience *seems* to lean *seasoned[1](#footnote-1)*, I suspect you have some memory of this song when it captured the airplay in the late 70’s and early 80’s. It seemed to be on every station multiple times a day. 

Literally it was *everywhere*.

But the radio mix was shortened from the album recording, and what hit the cutting-room floor was one of the best pop-*ish* solos ever recorded[2](#footnote-2). 

I never owned the album, but I heard it so often that I was completely burned out on the song. Classic radio overplaying.

Then, probably 5 or so years ago, one of the music people I followed on Twitter brought my attention to the full song. [Tracii Guns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracii%5FGuns?ref=sweatyspice.com), the axe-slinger for the 80’s metal band LA Guns, pointed out the kick ass nature of this sleeper solo, so I gave it a good listen.

And HOLY SHIT, it is a smoking solo. First, the framework of the song is a catchy beat, tight playing of all instruments, and it is well structured. Second, the solo is well architected, it builds in tempo and intensity, before third, it just goes off.

Give it a listen and wait for the lead break starting at about 2:40, and it just builds until the song closes at near 5 minutes.

Lemme know what you think.

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1. Yeah, that is a euphemism for “skewing older” - sue me. [↩](#footnote-anchor-1 "Jump back to footnote 1 in the text.")
2. That is a bold statement, but I believe it is justified.

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