''From Jersey It Came! The Smithereens Anthology'' is a two-disc, career-spanning

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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, "

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" and an instrumental mix of "If You Want the Sun to Shine"; and The Smithereens' version of "

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", originally recorded for the

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tribute album, ''One Step Up/Two Steps Back: The Songs of Bruce Springsteen''.

Track listing

Adapted from the album's liner notes. All tracks written by Pat DiNizio, except where noted.

Disc one

# "Girls About Town" — 2:53 #*from '' Girls About Town'' EP (1980) # "Back to Balboa" (

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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 ...

, DiNizio, Mike Mesaros) — 1:58 #*previously unreleased; recorded summer 1982 at Rock Bite Studio,

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# "Much Too Much" (Diken, DiNizio)— 2:24 #*from '' Beauty and Sadness'' EP (1983); 1988 remix by Ed Stasium # "Beauty and Sadness" — 3:24 #*from ''Beauty and Sadness'' EP (1983); 1988 remix by Ed Stasium # " Blood and Roses" — 3:35 #*from ''

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'' (1986) # " Strangers When We Meet" — 3:45 #*from ''Especially for You'' (1986) # "

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" — 4:04 #*from ''Especially for You'' (1986) # " Behind the Wall of Sleep" — 3:24 #*from ''Especially for You'' (1986) # "White Castle Blues" (Live) (Babjak, Robert Banta) — 7:42 #*previously unreleased; recorded live May 22, 1987 at The Stone Pony, Asbury Park,

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; album version originally released as bonus track from ''Especially for You'' (1986) # "Cigarette" — 2:27 #*from ''Especially for You'' (1986) # "Crazy Mixed-Up Kid" — 2:07 #*from ''Especially for You'' (1986) # "Time and Time Again" — 3:06 #*from ''Especially for You'' (1986) # "Something New" — 1:56 #*from ''

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" — 3:12 #*from ''Green Thoughts'' (1988) # "Especially for You'" (Babjak, DiNizio) — 3:07 #*from ''Green Thoughts'' (1988) # " House We Used to Live In" — 4:03 #*from ''Green Thoughts'' (1988) # "Elaine" (1980 Demo) — 3:00 #*previously unreleased; recorded early 1980 at Odyssey Studio,

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# "Elaine" — 2:33 #*from ''Green Thoughts'' (1988) # "

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" (1991); recorded during the ''Green Thoughts'' sessions, December 1987

Disc two

# " A Girl Like You" — 4:42 #*from '' 11'' (1989) # " Blues Before and After" — 3:15 #*from ''11'' (1989) # " Blue Period" — 2:57 #*from '' 11'' (1989) # "

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" — 3:27 #*from ''11'' (1989) # "Cut Flowers" (Honeys Mix) (Babjak, DiNizio) — 3:00 #*previously unreleased; alternate mix – album version from ''11'' (1989) # "Baby Be Good" — 3:20 #*from ''11'' (1989) # "Now and Then" (Babjak) — 3:50 #*from '' Blow Up'' (1991) # " Too Much Passion" — 4:35 #*from ''Blow Up'' (1991) # " Tell Me When Did Things Go So Wrong" — 2:22 #*from ''Blow Up'' (1991) # "If You Want the Sun to Shine" (Instrumental) (DiNizio,

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) — 5:50 #*B-side to "Too Much Passion" (1992); album version from ''Blow Up'' (1991) # "

" — 4:32 #*from ''Blow Up'' (1991) # "Evening Dress" — 3:12 #*from ''Blow Up'' (1991) # " Miles from Nowhere" — 4:18 #*from '' A Date with The Smithereens'' (1994) # "Love is Gone" (Babjak Studio Demo) (Babjak) — 3:38 #*previously unreleased; recorded December 1992 at Trax East Recording Studio, South River, New Jersey; album version from ''A Date with The Smithereens'' (1994) # "Everything I Have Is Blue" (Guitar Mix) — 4:21 #*promotional single (1994); remix by

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; album version from ''A Date with The Smithereens'' (1994) # "She's Got a Way" (Babjak, Diken, DiNizio, Mesaros, Danny Tate) — 3:24 #*from '' God Save The Smithereens'' (1999) # "

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Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. ;The Smithereens * Pat DiNizio – lead vocals, guitar *

– guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (Disc one, track 9; disc two, track 14) *

– drums, percussion, backing vocals *Mike Mesaros – bass, backing vocals ;Additional musicians *

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– Hammond organ and piano (Disc one, track 6) *Jeffrey Berman – vibraphone (Disc one, track 7) * Frank Christian – acoustic guitar (Disc one, track 7) *

Suzanne Vega Suzanne Nadine Vega ( Peck; born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter best known for her folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans almost 40 years. She came to prominence in the mid-1980s, releasing four singles that entered the ...

– vocals (Disc one, track 7) *Joe Kernich – piano (Disc one, track 8) *Kenny Margolis – keyboards, piano, organ, accordion, harpsichord * Don Dixon – piano, guitar, percussion, backing vocals * Marti Jones – backing vocals (Disc one, track 13) * Steve Berlin – saxophone (Disc one, track 17) * Maria Vidal – backing vocals (Disc two, track 1) *Michael Hamilton – guitar, keyboards, Mellotron * Belinda Carlisle – vocals (Disc two, track 3) *Gerri Sutyak – cello (Disc two, track 3) * Ed Stasium – backing vocals, percussion * The Honeys – backing vocals (Disc two, tracks 5, 6) * The Cowsills – backing vocals (Disc two, track 7) *Diana Graselli – backing vocals (Disc two, tracks 8, 11) * Alex Acuña – percussion (Disc two, track 8) *Sid Paige, Joel Derouin, Berj Garabedian, Michele Richards – violin (Disc two, track 8) *Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama,

Melissa Hasin Melissa "Missy" Hasin, (born November 3, 1954) is an American cellist who was raised in Newport Beach, California. Biography Although her parents wanted her to stick with classical music, she played the electric bass in various blues and ...

– cello (Disc two, track 8) * David Campbell – String arrangements (Disc two, tracks 8, 10) * Kevin Savigar – keyboards (Disc two, track 10) * Maria Vidal – backing vocals (Disc two, track 11) *

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– backing vocals (Disc two, track 14) *Bill Maryniak – organ (Disc two, track 17) ;Production personnel *The Smithereens – producer (Disc one, track 1; disc two, tracks 13, 15) *

Andy Shernoff Andy Shernoff (born April 19, 1955) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He is a founding member of The Dictators, one of the original New York punk bands, in which he wrote nearly all of the songs, played bass guitar and k ...

– producer (Disc one, track 2) * Alan Betrock – producer (Disc one, tracks 3, 4) *Don Dixon – producer (Disc one, tracks 5–8, 10–18, 20, 21; disc two, tracks 13, 15), liner notes *Ed Stasium – producer (Disc two, tracks 1–12) * Lou Giordano – associate producer (Disc two, tracks 13, 15) *Jim Babjak – producer (Disc two, track 14) * Don Fleming – producer (Disc two, tracks 16, 18) *Mike Mesaros – producer (Disc two, track 17) *David English – compilation producer *Dennis Diken – supervising producer, track annotations *Kevin Bartley – mastering *Diana Barnes – art direction *Bill Merryfield – design *Tim Gabor – illustrations *Michael Halsband – photography *Deborah Feingold – photography

References

External links

''From Jersey It Came! The Smithereens Anthology'' on Discogs.com
Retrieved on 9 February 2018. {{Authority control The Smithereens albums 2004 compilation albums Albums produced by Don Dixon (musician)