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From Jersey It Came! The Smithereens Anthology
''From Jersey It Came! The Smithereens Anthology'' is a two-disc, career-spanning compilation album by the Smithereens, released in 2004. It features most of the band's singles, as well as album and EP tracks, non-album B-sides and a handful of rarities. Overview The album contains 39 songs spanning 1980 to 1999, and includes five previously unreleased tracks: a 1980 demo of "Elaine"; the surf rock instrumental, "Back to Balboa"; a 1987 live recording of "White Castle Blues"; an alternate mix of "Cut Flowers"; and a 1992 demo of "Love is Gone". Also included are an alternate mix of "Everything I Have Is Blue", which was only released as a promotional single; two B-sides, "One After 909" and an instrumental mix of "If You Want the Sun to Shine"; and The Smithereens' version of "Downbound Train", originally recorded for the Bruce Springsteen tribute album, ''One Step Up/Two Steps Back: The Songs of Bruce Springsteen''. Track listing Adapted from the album's liner notes. All tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Smithereens
The Smithereens are an American rock band from Carteret, New Jersey, United States. The group formed in 1980 with members Pat DiNizio (vocals & guitar), Jim Babjak (guitar & vocals), Mike Mesaros (bass guitar & vocals), and Dennis Diken (drums & percussion). This original lineup continued until 2006, when Mesaros left the band and Severo Jornacion took over on bass guitar until Mesaros' return in 2016. After DiNizio died in 2017, the band continued performing live shows as a trio (Babjak, Mesaros and Diken) with various guest vocalists. The band are perhaps best known for a string of hits in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, including "Only a Memory", " A Girl Like You" and " Too Much Passion". The Smithereens have collaborated with numerous musicians, both in the studio (Belinda Carlisle, Julian Lennon, Lou Reed, Suzanne Vega) and live (Graham Parker and The Kinks). The band's name comes from a Yosemite Sam catchphrase, "Varmint, I'm a-gonna blow you to smithereens!" Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Diken
Dennis Diken (born February 25, 1957) is an American drummer, DJ, author, music historian, and founding member of the band the Smithereens, which he formed in 1980 with Pat DiNizio, Jim Babjak, and Mike Mesaros in Carteret, New Jersey. Besides playing with the Smithereens, Diken is a fill-in DJ on WFMU as well as a liner notes author and reissue project researcher. As a musician, Diken has recorded or toured with, among others, Ronnie Spector, Dave Davies, Nancy Sinatra, Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las and Ben E. King, and worked with musicians such as Dave Amels and R. Stevie Moore. Diken graduated from Carteret High School in 1975, together with Jim Babjak. Career Diken has been a constant member of the Smithereens since 1980 but has also worked as a session drummer since the 1980s. He toured with former Shangri-La Mary Weiss in the late 2000s and has since 2014 toured with former Kinks guitarist Dave Davies' solo band. On December 18, 2015 during Dave Davies’ concert at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only A Memory
"Only a Memory" is a song by the American alternative rock group The Smithereens. It is the first single released in support of their second album ''Green Thoughts''. Background "Only a Memory" started life during a soundcheck in Madrid on the ''Especially for You'' European tour in January 1987. Luckily for frontman Pat DiNizio, the band's roadie was there with his pocket tape recorder when he came up with the intro riff. DiNizio recalled, " eheard me scream "Chopper, tape this!!" I would have never remembered it otherwise." Release "Only a Memory" was released as the first single from the band's sophomore album, ''Green Thoughts''. The single was the band's most commercially successful single release to that point, topping the US Mainstream Rock Charts and becoming the first Smithereens song to hit the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 92. In popular culture On May 18, 2010, the song was made available to download in the Rock Band digital store. The song also appeared in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Thoughts
''Green Thoughts'' is the second studio album by the Smithereens, released in March 1988 by Enigma/Capitol Records.Green Thoughts . Officialsmithereens.com. Retrieved on 27 December 2018. The single, "Only a Memory", reached No. 92 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and topped the chart in 1988. Background The Smithereens had toured from May 1986 to September 1987 in support of their debut album, 1986's '' |
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by Delaware Bay and the state of Delaware. At , New Jersey is the fifth-smallest state in land area; but with close to 9.3 million residents, it ranks 11th in population and first in population density. The state capital is Trenton, and the most populous city is Newark. With the exception of Warren County, all of the state's 21 counties lie within the combined statistical areas of New York City or Philadelphia. New Jersey was first inhabited by Native Americans for at least 2,800 years, with the Lenape being the dominant group when Europeans arrived in the early 17th century. Dutch and Swedish colonists founded the first European settlements in the state. The British later seized control o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asbury Park
Asbury Park () is a beachfront city located on the Jersey Shore in Monmouth County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 15,188QuickFacts Asbury Park city, New Jersey . Accessed June 13, 2022. a decrease from 16,116 in 2010, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stone Pony
The Stone Pony is a New Jersey music venue in Asbury Park, New Jersey known for launching the careers of many New Jersey music legends, including Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, and Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. DeMasters, Karen (December 16, 2001). City Revival May Imperil Stone Pony. ''New York Times''. Retrieved December 19, 2010. The club opened in 1973. History 
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Behind The Wall Of Sleep (The Smithereens Song)
"Behind the Wall of Sleep" is a song by the American alternative rock group The Smithereens, released in 1986. It is the second single released in support of their debut album ''Especially for You''. Background Lead singer Pat DiNizio wrote the lyrics to the song on the back of a cocktail napkin on a flight home from Boston to New York City. The Smithereens had shared a bill with the Boston band The Bristols, whose bassist Kim Ernst had caught DiNizio's attention. DiNizio: "My crush on her led me to write that on a very hung-over morning after a party in Boston." The lyrics include references to 1960s model Jean Shrimpton ("She had hair like Jeannie Shrimpton back in 1965") and Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman ("She held a bass guitar and she was playing in a band/And she stood just like Bill Wyman/Now I am her biggest fan"). At the time, DiNizio didn't give a lot of thought to the pop imagery in the lyrics, but it "seemed to create a certain interest later on", he said in 1995. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In A Lonely Place (song)
"In a Lonely Place" is a song by the American alternative rock group The Smithereens, released in 1986. It is the third single released in support of their debut album '' Especially for You''. It features Suzanne Vega on background vocals, as well as guest musicians Frank Christian on acoustic guitar and Jeffrey Berman on vibraphone. Background The song takes its title from the 1950 film noir ''In a Lonely Place'', starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, and its pre-chorus lyrics are largely adapted from key lines of dialogue in the film; at one point, Bogart's character says, "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me," while in the film's climactic scene, Grahame's character says, "Yesterday, this would've meant so much to us. Now it doesn't matter... it doesn't matter at all." The relevant lyrics are: "I was born the day I met you/Lived a while when you loved me/Died a little when we broke apart//Yesterday, it woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strangers When We Meet (The Smithereens Song)
"Strangers When We Meet" is a song by the American alternative rock group The Smithereens, released as a European-only single in 1987. It is the fourth single released in support of their debut album ''Especially for You''. Background According to songwriter Pat DiNizio, the song was his attempt to rewrite the Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby", "but in the end it turned into something else altogether", he said. The title was taken from the 1960 film of the same name and the lyrics were directly inspired by the plot. Written in 1984, the song was considered by the band as the main "pop hit single" candidate on the album. Release In Europe, "Strangers When We Meet" was released as the fourth single from the band's debut album ''Especially for You''. The single reached number 21 on the UK Indie Charts. Formats and track listing ;UK 7" single (Enig 3) #"Strangers When We Meet" (Pat DiNizio) – 3:35 #" The Seeker" (Pete Townshend) – 3:08 ;UK 12" single (Enig 31) #"Strang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Especially For You (The Smithereens Album)
''Especially for You'' is the first full-length album from New Jersey-based rock band The Smithereens, released in July 1986 by Enigma Records.''Especially for You'' Officialsmithereens.com. Retrieved on November 20, 2018. The album is notable for the hit "", which has been featured in multiple movie and TV productions. Producer Don Dixon's co-production work on 's '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood And Roses (song)
"Blood and Roses" is a song by the American alternative rock group The Smithereens. It is the first single released in support of their debut album ''Especially for You''. Background DiNizio explained of the song's origin, "I was walking home from my job as soundman at NYC's legendary Folk City nightclub through the freezing rain at about four in the morning when the bass line came to me, the chords and melody came later built around the bass part." Lyrically, the song is about a girl DiNizio knew in highschool, who took her own life. The title was taken from a short story of the same name by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, a literary hero of DiNizio's. "I found out years later that ''Blood and Roses'' was also the title of an obscure early 1960s horror film directed by Roger Vadim", DiNizio said. Release "Blood and Roses" was released as the first single from the band's debut album, ''Especially for You''. The single reached number 14 on the US Mainstream Rock Charts as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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