Especially For You

Release date: July, 1986

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1. Strangers When We Meet

2. Listen To Me Girl

3. Groovy Tuesday

4. Cigarette

5. I Don’t Want To Lose You

6. Time And Time Again

7. Behind The Wall Of Sleep

8. In A Lonely Place

9. Blood And Roses

10. Crazy Mixed-Up Kid

11. Hand Of Glory

12. Alone At Midnight 

CD Reissue Bonus Tracks

1. White Castle Blues

2. Mr. Eliminator

Produced by Don Dixon

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The Smithereens debut album Especially For You enlists the aid of producer Don Dixon (REM, GUADALCANAL DIARY, Marti Jones) behind the board, and this team has come up with a flawless display of pop craftsmanship.

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Tracks like “Strangers When We Meet”, “Blood & Roses”, “Behind the Wall of Sleep”, “In A Lonely Place”-a smokey duet from Smithereens’ lead vocalist Pat DiNizio and folk chantuese Suzanne Vega-and the churning “Time And Time Again” show the band moving easily between styles, keeping intact a finely tuned balance of pure rock energy and rare pop intuition.

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“This was like a greatest hits album from a band nobody’s heard of because we’d had those songs for five years. It still holds up.” – Pat DiNizio