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{{Short description|1979 single by the Knack}}
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{{Infobox song
| name       = Good Girls Don't
| cover      = The Knack Good Girls Don't cover.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[The Knack]]
| album      = [[Get the Knack]]
| B-side     = Frustrated
| released   = August 1979
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Power pop]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vh1.com/news/57ydy3/20-essential-power-pop-tracks|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406180405/https://www.vh1.com/news/57ydy3/20-essential-power-pop-tracks|url-status=live|archive-date=April 6, 2023|title=Catchy, Loud and Proud: 20 Essential Power Pop Tracks That Will Be Stuck In Your Head Forever|last=Runtagh|first=Jordan|date=April 8, 2014|publisher=[[VH1]]|access-date=January 29, 2020}}</ref>|[[New wave music|new wave]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uw5pDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92|title=Listen to New Wave Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre|last=Perone|first=James E.|date=2018|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-4408-5969-4|page=92}}</ref>}}
| length     = 3:07
| label      = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]]
| writer     = [[Doug Fieger]]
| producer   = [[Mike Chapman]]
| prev_title = [[My Sharona]]
| prev_year  = 1979
| next_title = [[My Sharona|Let Me Out]]
| next_year  = 1979
}}
"'''Good Girls Don't'''" is a 1979 hit single written by [[Doug Fieger]] and released by the rock band [[The Knack]], off their album ''[[Get the Knack]].'' It was the follow-up to the group's [[List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1979 (U.S.)|number-one hit]] single, "[[My Sharona]]". "Good Girls Don't" was a No. 1 hit in Canada.<ref name=rpm>{{cite web|title=RPM 100 Singles|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6856a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6856a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6856a|date=November 10, 1979|publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]]|access-date=2012-06-07}}</ref> It reached #11 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], #10 in ''[[Record World]]'', and #11 in ''[[Cash Box]]'', as well as No. 66 on the United Kingdom chart.<ref name=uschart>{{cite web|title=Get the Knack singles|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/get-the-knack-r11107/charts-awards/billboard-single|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2011-09-15}}</ref><ref name=uk>{{cite web|title=Knack singles|url=http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/knack/|publisher=Official Charts Company|access-date=2011-09-15}}</ref> It also reached No. 20 in New Zealand.<ref name=nz>{{cite web|title=Good Girls Don't: New Zealand charts|url=https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Knack&titel=Good+Girls+Don%27t&cat=s|publisher=charts.nz|access-date=2011-10-09}}</ref> The song has since been covered by a number of artists, including [[The Chipmunks]], [[Ben Folds]], The Chubbies, and The McRackins.<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web|title=Good Girls Don't|url=http://www.allmusic.com/search/track/Good+Girls+Don%27t/order:default-asc|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2011-07-07|archive-date=June 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604014111/http://www.allmusic.com/search/track/Good+Girls+Don%27t/order:default-asc|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=punk>{{cite web|title=Chipmunk Punk|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/chipmunk-punk-r80719|author=Stone, D.|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2011-09-15}}</ref>
==Writing and recording==
Fieger originally wrote "Good Girls Don't" in 1972,<ref name=getting>{{cite video|title=Getting the Knack|people=McLaughlin, M. & Sharp, K.|publisher=Passport Productions|year=2004}}</ref><ref name=desert>{{cite news|title=The Knack is Back, This Time for Good|author=Iwasaki, S.|work=[[Deseret News]]|page=W4|date=August 21, 1998|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/647783/The-Knack-is-back---this-time-for-good.html?pg=all|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121131448/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/647783/The-Knack-is-back---this-time-for-good.html?pg=all|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 21, 2013|access-date=2012-04-18}}</ref> and claimed that he wrote the song with [[Johnny Cash]]'s voice in mind.<ref name=getting/> He had included it on three or four demos in various attempts to get a recording contract, including with The Knack.<ref name=getting/><ref name=desert/> It was also one of the first songs The Knack recorded. They had made a demo which included "Good Girls Don't" and "That's What the Little Girls Do" in 1978, despite which the band was turned down multiple times in their efforts to get their first record contract.<ref name=getting/><ref name=80s>{{cite book|title=Flashbacks to Happiness: Eighties Music Revisited|author=Michaels, R.|page=338|year=2005|publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-0-595-37007-8}}</ref> By the time The Knack was recording ''Get the Knack'', he was tired of the song and reluctant to record it, but was convinced by producer [[Mike Chapman]] to attempt one take.<ref name=getting/> That one take was used on the album.<ref name=getting/>
==Lyrics and music==
"Good Girls Don't" begins with Fieger playing the [[harmonica]], in a part which authors Michael Uslan and Bruce Solomon liken to [[The Beatles]]' song "[[I Should Have Known Better]]."<ref name=clark>{{cite book|title=Dick Clark's The First 25 Years of Rock & Roll|author1=Uslan, M.|author2=Solomon, B.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dickclarksfirst20000usla/page/444 444–445]|year=1983|publisher=Greenwich House|isbn=0517415976|url=https://archive.org/details/dickclarksfirst20000usla/page/444}}</ref>  The lyrics, such as the refrain "She'll be telling you 'good girls don't but I do,'" were considered misogynistic by some critics. However, Joyce Canaan of the [[Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies]] wrote that this line succinctly captures the transformation of teenage girls' representations of their sexual practices; while they want to be seen as "good girls", even good girls may engage in practices not corresponding to established<!--& since when are the standards "established by males"?--> moral standards.<ref>{{cite book|title=Symbolizing America|url=https://archive.org/details/symbolizingameri00vare|url-access=registration|author=Canaan, J.|chapter=Why a ‘Slut’ is a ‘Slut’: Cautionary Tales of American Middle-Class Teenage Girls’ Morality|pages=[https://archive.org/details/symbolizingameri00vare/page/199 199], 208|editor=Varenne, H.|year=1986|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-9603-9}}</ref> Fieger has stated that "All we were doing in songs like the naughty 'Good Girls Don't' was reflecting the way 14-year-old boys feel. And there's a little 14-year-old boy in all of us. I think that's why the record did so well."<ref>{{cite news|title=After years of taking flak, the Knack is back and on the attack|author=Milano, B.|newspaper=[[Boston Herald]]|url-access=subscription|via=[[HighBeam Research]]|date=September 2, 1998|access-date=2012-09-15|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-56352886.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111044944/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-56352886.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 11, 2013}}</ref> Other lyrics that created controversy included the lines:
"And she makes you want to scream; wishing you could get inside her pants" (this line was re-recorded as "wishing she was givin' you a chance" on the "clean" single release),<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Don't Knock the Knack|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theknack/articles/story/5920790/dont_knock_the_knack|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103105537/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theknack/articles/story/5920790/dont_knock_the_knack|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 3, 2007|author=Tarnow, N.|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=July 14, 1998|access-date=2008-10-04}}</ref> and:
:And it's a teenage sadness
:Everyone has got to taste.
:An in-between age madness
:That you know you can't erase
:Til she's sitting on your face (and it hurts!).
The "clean" single edit also changed this last line to "when she puts you in your place", which led to criticism this changed the meaning of the song.<ref>{{cite book|title=45 RPM: the history, heroes, & villains of a pop music revolution|author1=Dawson, J.  |author2=Propes, S.|page=153|year=2003|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-0-87930-757-8}}</ref> ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' critic Doug Brod claimed that another song from ''Get the Knack'', "That's What the Little Girls Do" was the Knack's own answer to "Good Girls Don't".<ref>{{cite news|title=Power Pop|author=Brod, D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neDQuF47lxQC&q=%22that%27s+what+the+little+girls+do%22+knack&pg=PA119|work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|page=119|date=October 2004|access-date=2012-04-15}}</ref>
Like some other [[power pop]] songs, such as [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]]'s "[[Hanging on the Telephone]]" and "[[Sunday Girl]]", as well as [[The Beatles]]' "[[Please Please Me (song)|Please Please Me]]" and "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]", the drumming pattern of "Good Girls Don't" employs a [[Beat (music)#Backbeat|double backbeat]] rhythm.<ref name=wave>{{cite book|title=Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s|author=Cateforis, C.|pages=140–141|year=2011|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=978-0-472-03470-3}}</ref>
==Critical reception==
Critic Chris Woodstra of [[AllMusic]] retrospectively described the song as an "unforgettable hit".<ref>{{cite web|title=Get The Knack|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/get-the-knack-r11107|author=Woodstra, C.|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2011-07-07}}</ref> [[Robert Hilburn]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' called it the highlight of ''Get the Knack'' and suggested had similar flavor to early songs by [[The Sweet|Sweet]].<ref name=la>{{cite news|title=Knack Being Compared to The Beatles by Capitol|author=[[Robert Hilburn|Hilburn, R.]]|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IoEgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YKcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4598,2983019&dq=your-number-or-your-name&hl=en|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124132907/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IoEgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YKcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4598,2983019&dq=your-number-or-your-name&hl=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 24, 2013|date=June 20, 1979|page=1|work=[[Anchorage Daily News]]|access-date=2012-04-26}}</ref> Critic [[Greil Marcus]] described the song as a "smutty little Beatles imitation".<ref>{{cite book|title=Ranters & crowd pleasers: punk in pop music, 1977-92|author=Marcus, G.|page=83|year=1994|publisher=Anchor Books|isbn=978-0-385-41721-1}}</ref> Author John Borack described the song as "a mean pop tune", noting too that in the song lead singer and songwriter Fieger comes off "like a leering, sexist twit with hormones a-raging."<ref name=borack>{{cite book|title=Shake some action: the ultimate power pop guide|author=Borack, J.|page=60|year=2007|publisher=[[Not Lame Recordings]]|isbn=978-0-9797714-0-8}}</ref> ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' described the song as "a cleverly worded, youth-oriented melodic rocker" and referred to the song's "hearty harmonica" part and Beatle-esque [[Harmony|harmonies]], noting that "the music is delivered in tight little notes at top speed."<ref>{{cite news|title=Top Single Picks|newspaper=Billboard|access-date=2020-07-08|date=September 1, 1979|page=65|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1979/Billboard%201979-09-01.pdf}}</ref><ref name=billboard>{{cite magazine|title=Closeup: Get The Knack|author=Nusser, D.|magazine=Billboard |date=July 28, 1979|pages=52, 66|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCQEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22maybe+tonight%22+knack&pg=PT107|access-date=2011-07-14}}</ref> ''[[Cash Box]]'' said that it is "in the same quick, slick mode of immensely infectious pop-rock geared directly to the teenage market both musically and lyrically" as "[[My Sharona]]."<ref name=cb>{{cite news|title=CashBox Singles Reviews|date=September 1, 1979|page=7|newspaper=Cash Box|accessdate=2022-01-01|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1979/CB-1979-09-01.pdf}}</ref>  ''[[Record World]]'' said that "The [[hook (music)|hook]] is right for teen rockers."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=September 8, 1979|accessdate=2023-02-11|title=Hits of the Week|page=1|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/79/RW-1979-09-08.pdf}}</ref>
''[[Audio (magazine)|Audio]]'' described the song as "irresistible".<ref name=audio/> Wayne Wadhams, David Nathan and Susan Gedutis Lindsay described the song as a "well written pop tune" and note that the music is prettier than "My Sharona" and contains harmonies similar to those in songs by [[The Searchers (band)|The Searchers]] and [[The Hollies]].<ref name=hits>{{cite book|title=Inside the Hits|author1=Wadhams, W.|author2=Nathan, D.|author3=Lindsay, S.|name-list-style=amp|pages=467–468|year=2001|publisher=Berklee Press|isbn=978-0-634-01430-7}}</ref>  However, they also go on to note that the lyric "portrays a character more doggedly bent on sex than naturally aroused" and represents a "leering, postpubescent sales pitch by a dirty young man."<ref name=hits/>  J. J. Syrja of ''The Seguin Gazette'' said that with this song the Knack "[struck] pure teenage delirium."<ref>{{cite news|title=Plenty of Power Sometimes...|author=Syrja, J.J.|newspaper=The Seguin Gazette|access-date=2017-04-03|date=August 23, 1979|page=43|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/9590748/?terms=%22she%27s%2Bso%2Bselfish%22%2Bknack|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Other critics regarded the song as "derivative" and "sexist".<ref>{{cite news|title=CMJ Top 25: The Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time|author=Weingarten, C.|page=12|newspaper=CMJ New Music Report|date=January 6, 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|author=Larkin, C.|page=1392|year=1992|publisher=Guinness|isbn=978-1-882267-02-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Virgin encyclopedia of 70s music|author=Larkin, C.|page=221|year=2002|edition=3|publisher=Virgin|isbn=978-1-85227-947-9}}</ref>
==Chart performance==
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===Weekly charts===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Chart (1979)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
|align="left"|Canada ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' [[Canadian Singles Chart|Top Singles]]<ref name=rpm/>
|align="center"|1
|-
|align="left"|New Zealand Singles Chart<ref name=nz/>
|align="center"|20
|-
|align="left"|UK Singles Chart<ref name=uk/>
|align="center"|66
|-
|U.S. [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref name=uschart/>
|align="center"|11
|-
|U.S. [[Cash Box (magazine)|''Cash Box'']] Top 100<ref>[http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19791110.html Cash Box Top 100 Singles, November 10, 1979]</ref>
|align="center"|11
|}
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===Year-end charts===
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|-
!Chart (1979)
! style="text-align:center;"|Rank
|-
|Canada <ref>{{cite magazine|title= 1979 Top 200 Singles |volume= 32 |issue= 13 |date= December 22, 1979 |magazine= [[RPM (magazine)|RPM]] |publisher= [[Library and Archives Canada]] |access-date= March 3, 2018 |url= http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6855a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6855a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6855a}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|33
|-
|U.S. ''Cash Box'' <ref>[http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/1979YESP.html Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 29, 1979]</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|83
|-
|U.S. ([[Joel Whitburn]]'s ''Pop Annual'')<ref>{{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |date=1999 |title=Pop Annual |location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |publisher=Record Research Inc. |isbn=0-89820-142-X}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|83
|-
|}
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==Other appearances==
"Good Girls Don't" was also released on The Knack's compilation albums ''The Retrospective: The Best of the Knack'' (1992), ''The Very Best of The Knack'' (1998) and ''Best of The Knack'' (1999).<ref name=allmusic/> The band made a music video of the song as well.<ref name=videos>{{cite web|title=The Knack Music Videos|date=December 13, 2011 |url=http://www.theknack.com/media/official-videos/|publisher=The Knack|access-date=2012-04-18}}</ref> A live version also appears on the 2002 live album and DVD ''Live from the Rock 'N' Roll Funhouse'' and on the 2012 live CD ''Havin' a Rave Up'', taken from a 1978 concert in Los Angeles.<ref name=allmusic/><ref name=rave>{{cite web|title=Havin' a Rave-Up! Live In Los Angeles, 1978|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/havin-a-rave-up-live-in-los-angeles-1978-r2459977|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=2012-04-24}}</ref> It was part of the [[Carnegie Hall]] concert that was released on [[Laserdisc]].<ref name=allmusic/> It was also included on a number of multiband compilation albums, such as ''Greatest Hits of the 70's'' and ''Party Starter: 80s Mix''.<ref name=allmusic/>
=="Frustrated"==
"Frustrated", written by Fieger and Knack guitarist [[Berton Averre]], was the [[A-side and B-side|B-side]] of "Good Girls Don't". Like a number of songs on ''Get the Knack'', such as "My Sharona", "Frustrated" was inspired by [[Doug Fieger|Fieger]]'s [[girlfriend]] [[Sharona Alperin]], and reflected Fieger's real life frustration at the fact that he had a crush on her, but she was keeping him at arm's length (they eventually had a relationship).<ref name=getting/> Lyrics include lines such as "She'll make you weak, out of breath and feeling close to death."<ref name=billboard/> Jack Lloyd of [[Knight Ridder]] described it as a song of teen-age woe.<ref name=lloyd>{{cite news|title=The Knack: Custom Made Music for Teens Made Them the New Superstars|work=[[The Evening Independent]]|author=Lloyd, J.|date=October 20, 1979|page=37|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yrdaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IFkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4263,1796085&dq=berton-averre&hl=en|access-date=2012-04-18}}</ref>  The Knack also included "Frustrated" on the live [[DVD]] ''On Stage at World Cafe Live'' released in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=On Stage at World Cafe Live|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/on-stage-at-world-cafe-live-r1059365|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2012-04-16}}</ref> Although not released as an A-side, the band made a promotional music video of the song.<ref name=videos/>
''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' described "Frustrated" as "[[The Rolling Stones]]' answer to Sharona", and called it one of the album's "best tracks".<ref name=billboard/><ref>{{cite magazine|title=First Time Around|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IiUEAAAAMBAJ&q=billboard+%22get+the+knack%22&pg=PT85|date=June 16, 1979|magazine=Billboard|page=82|access-date=2012-04-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Get the Knack|url=http://www.superseventies.com/spknack.html|publisher=superseventies.com|access-date=2012-04-18}}</ref>  Ken Tucker of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' called "Frustrated" a "neck breaker" and considered the song an "artfully veiled metaphor for their leader's professional ambitions", which describes Fieger as "an ingenious overreacher just now closing in on his real goal of securing power by whipping up a pop-rock treat that'll have kids begging to rot their minds on it."<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Get the Knack|author=Tucker, K.|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=August 9, 1979}}</ref> Ira Robbins and Michael Sandlin of ''[[Trouser Press]]'' described the song as a "tight guitar pop" song which described women as "prick-teases".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Knack|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=knack|work=[[Trouser Press]]|author1=Robbins, I.|author1-link=|author2=Sandlin, M.|name-list-style=amp|access-date=2012-04-14}}</ref> Author John Borack described "Frustrated" like "Good Girls Don't" as a "mean pop tune" in which Fieger comes off "like a leering, sexist twit with hormones a-raging."<ref name=borack/> Pete Bishop of the ''[[Pittsburgh Press]]'' claimed that "Frustrated" "lean(s) towards bubblegum".<ref>{{cite news|title=Wings Putting On Fans?|author=Bishop, P.|work=[[Pittsburgh Press]]|page=84|date=July 14, 1979|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3GgdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H1wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3928,5541893&dq=your-number-or-your-name&hl=en|access-date=2012-04-26}}</ref> Critic S. Victor Aaron of ''Something Else!'' praised  the song's "huge backbeat", "lively bass line" and "thick slab of guitar riffs" as well as Fieger's "impishly sung lyrics".<ref name=something>{{cite web|title=Deep Cuts: The Knack – "Frustrated" (1979)|url=http://somethingelsereviews.com/2009/10/24/deep-cuts-the-knack-frustrated-1979/|date=October 24, 2009|author=Aaron, S.V.|access-date=2012-04-14|publisher=somethingelsereviews.com}}</ref> Aaron summed up "Frustrated" as a "perfect danceable tough rocker for any party" and noted that it got significant airplay on [[Album-oriented rock|AOR]] radio stations.<ref name=something/>  ''[[Audio (magazine)|Audio]]'' magazine called it a "basher" with "plenty of style".<ref name=audio>{{cite news|title=Get the Knack: The Knack|newspaper=Audio|page=104|year=1979}}</ref>  Tina Maples of the ''[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]'' praised its "[[hook (music)|hooky]] effervescence".<ref>{{cite news|title=resurrected by film, the Knack can't move beyond 'My Sharona'|newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]|author=Maples, T.|date=June 2, 1994|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MWSB&p_theme=mwsb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB8286236654796&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=2013-11-02}}</ref> Charla Wasel of ''[[The Evening Independent]]'' described it as a song "with which we can all relate."<ref>{{cite news|title=Concert Connection|newspaper=[[The Evening Independent]]|author=Wasel, C.|page=10-D|date=September 29, 1979|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DGJQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7VgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4677,3861182&dq=shes+so+selfish+knack&hl=en|access-date=2013-11-02}}</ref>  The Knack [[Bass guitar|bassist]] [[Prescott Niles]] described the song as "catchy" and noted that it was "a big crowd favorite".<ref name=getting/>
Like "Good Girls Don't" and "My Sharona", "Frustrated" was covered by the Chipmunks on their album ''[[Chipmunk Punk]]''.<ref name=punk/> The Chipmunks' version incorporates an excerpt from the Rolling Stones' song "[[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction]]".<ref name=punk/>  [[Dave Grohl]] and [[Greg Kurstin]] covered “Frustrated” for their “[[Hanukkah Sessions]]” in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|title=Watch Dave Grohl And Greg Kurstin Cover The Knack's 'Frustrated'|date=December 18, 2020 |url=https://societyofrock.com/watch-dave-grohl-and-greg-kurstin-cover-the-knacks-frustrated/|publisher=Society of Rock|accessdate=2022-05-23}}</ref>
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