Round Trip (The Knack album)

Round Trip is the third studio album by power pop/new wave band the Knack, released by Capitol Records in 1981.

[4] The band broke up a few months after its release, with their label dropping them due to failed expectations.

[7] Critic David Fricke of Rolling Stone gave a generally positive review, commenting: Like Icarus in a skinny tie, the Knack flew too close to the sun and got burned real bad.

If the message of the first album was Get the Knack (or get lost) and the second LP insisted that the critics don't know...but the little girls understand, then the gist of Round Trip is, "We're sorry, give us another chance"...

"[13] Classic Rock History critic Skip Anderson rated "Boys Go Crazy" as the Knack's 8th best song and felt it should have been the lead single in the U.S. rather than "Pay the Devil".

[14] Record World called it "a straight-ahead rocker" in which "Doug Fieger's emphatic vocal rides a racehorse rhythm.