The Smithereens

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Years Active
1980 – present (45 years)
Founded In
Carteret, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States
The Smithereens is an American band formed in Carteret, New Jersey in 1980. The band gained some notoriety when a single from its first album, Blood and Roses, was included on the soundtrack for and as the theme song of the 1986 Albert Pyun movie Dangerously Close and the video got some moderately heavy rotation on MTV. Along with a basic Eastern-coast roots-rock sound that owed much to the inspirations of DiNizio, including Buddy Holly, The Who, The Clash, Elvis Costello, and Nick Lowe, the Smithereens deployed a uniquely retro obsession with , the late British… read more
The Smithereens is an American band formed in Carteret, New Jersey in 1980. The band gained some notoriety when a single from its first album, Blood and Roses, was included on the soundtrack for and as the theme song of the 1986 Albert Pyun movie Dangerously Close and the vid… read more
The Smithereens is an American band formed in Carteret, New Jersey in 1980. The band gained some notoriety when a single from its first album, Blood and Roses, was included on the soundtrack for and as the theme song of the 1986 Albert Pyun movie Dangerously Close and the video got some moderately heavy rotation on MTV. Along with a basic Easter… read more

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Top Tracks

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1 Play track Especially For You Blood And Roses
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 306 listeners
2 Play track Alternative Rock X-mas Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
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 229 listeners
3 Play track Smithereens 11 A Girl Like You
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4 Play track Especially For You Behind the Wall of Sleep
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5 Play track Green Thoughts Only A Memory
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6 Play track Smithereens 11 Blues Before And After
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7 Play track Especially For You Strangers When We Meet
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 53 listeners
8 Play track Christmas With The Smithereens Waking Up On Christmas Morning
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9 Play track Especially For You In A Lonely Place
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10 Christmas With The Smithereens Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me)
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Albums

  1. 69,069 listeners

    1986 · 12 tracks

    Especially For You
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  2. 33,163 listeners

    17 Oct 1989 · 10 tracks

    Smithereens 11
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  3. 26,608 listeners

    16 Mar 1988 · 11 tracks

    Green Thoughts
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  4. 19,333 listeners

    1 Jan 1989 · 10 tracks

    11
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