Blown to Smithereens: Best of The Smithereens

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Blown to Smithereens: Best of The Smithereens
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Greatest hits album by
The Smithereens
ReleasedApril 4, 1995 [1]
RecordedOctober 1982 – June 1994
Genre Rock
Length61:00
Label Capitol Records
Producer Alan Betrock, Don Dixon, Ed Stasium, Ron Fair, Bennett Kaufman
The Smithereens chronology
A Date with The Smithereens
(1994)		Blown to Smithereens: Best of The Smithereens
(1995)		 Attack of The Smithereens
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Entertainment Weekly B+ [3]

Blown to Smithereens: Best of The Smithereens is the first compilation album by The Smithereens, released April 4, 1995, by Capitol Records. It features the band's best-known songs and radio hits from 1983's Beauty and Sadness EP to the 1994 album, A Date with The Smithereens . [2] The album also includes a cover of The Outsiders 1966 hit, "Time Won't Let Me", recorded for the film Timecop and released as a single in August 1994. [4]

Contents

Blown to Smithereens has sold 188,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. [5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat DiNizio, except "Time Won't Let Me" by Chet Kelley and Tom King

No.TitleOriginal releaseLength
1."Beauty and Sadness" Beauty and Sadness EP, 19833:28
2."Strangers When We Meet" Especially for You , 19863:48
3."Blood and Roses"Especially for You3:36
4."In a Lonely Place"Especially for You4:11
5."Behind the Wall of Sleep"Especially for You3:24
6."Only a Memory" Green Thoughts , 19883:44
7."House We Used to Live In"Green Thoughts4:02
8."Drown in My Own Tears"Green Thoughts3:10
9."A Girl Like You" 11 , 19894:41
10."Blue Period"112:55
11."Blues Before and After"113:16
12."Yesterday Girl"113:27
13."Top of the Pops" Blow Up , 19914:32
14."Too Much Passion"Blow Up4:31
15."Miles from Nowhere" A Date with The Smithereens , 19944:21
16."Time Won't Let Me" (from the Motion Picture Timecop )Non-album single, 19943:45

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes [6] and Discogs.com. [7]

The Smithereens

for track information see individual albums

"Time Won't Let Me" personnel
Production

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References

  1. ↑ "Blown To Smithereens: The Best Of The Smithereens". Officialsmithereens.com. Retrieved on 17 February 2018.
  2. 1 2 Demalon, Tom. "Blown to Smithereens: Best of The Smithereens - review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  3. ↑ Mirkin, Steven (13 October 1995). "Blown to Smithereens: The Best of the Smithereens - Review". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  4. ↑ Blown to Smithereens: Best of the Smithereens (CD liner notes). The Smithereens. Capitol Records. 1995.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  5. ↑ Shevory, Kristina (8 June 2008). "When the Mosh Pit Is Your Sofa". The New York Times . Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  6. ↑ Blown to Smithereens: Best of the Smithereens (CD liner notes). The Smithereens. Capitol Records. 1995.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. ↑ "The Smithereens – Time Won't Let Me (From The Motion Picture "Timecop")". Discogs.com. Retrieved on 17 February 2018.
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