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The Smithereens are a powerpop/rock group from Carteret, New Jersey. The group formed in 1980 and consists of Pat DiNizio (lead singer/guitar), Jim Babjak (guitar), Mike Mesaros (bass), and Dennis Diken (drums). The group 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. The group spent some time in its initial semi-celebrity phase defending itself in Rolling Stone against thinly-veiled accusations of sounding too much like The...
A Girl Like You
Gloomy Sunday
Batman Theme
Downbound Train
Time Won't Let Me
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Nobody Lives Forever
It Won't Be Long
Blood and Roses
Today It's You
She's Got A Way
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
I Want To Tell You
Up in Heaven
Hold Me Tight
Ruler of My Heart
Groovy Tuesday [BBC Sunday Live]
I Saw Her Standing There
Little Child
Cigarette [String Machine]
Time And Time Again [Demo]
Lust For Life
The Game of Love
Cigarette [Electric Live]
World Keeps Going 'Round
I Wanna Be Your Man
Crazy Mixed-Up Kid [Electric Live]
Crazy Mixed-Up Kid [Basement Demo]
Pat & Dennis Radio Promo
Now and Then (The Smithereens - Kome 06/05/92)
Everything I Have Is Blue (Smithereens Band Demo)
Time Won't Let Me
Sorry
I Saw Him Standing There (Live)
Baby Be Good (WNEW - Electric Ladyland 12/5/1989)
Baby Be Good (WNEW - Electric Ladyland 12/5/1989)
Everything Changes (Hip Hop Version - With Vocals)
Twist and Shout (Live)
Afternoon Tea (The Bayou - Washington, DC 8/26/94)
Deep Black
Love Is Gone (Middle East - Cambridge, MA 8/17/94)
Try
William Wilson (The Ventura Theatre, CA 2/6/1990)
Time and Time Again (Alan Betrock Demo, 1984)
Strangers When We Meet (Alan Betrock Demo, 1984)
Someday
Groovy Tuesday
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
This Boy (Live)
Cigarette (The Newport - Columbus, OH 12/23/89)
