Biography

The Smithereens filtered their '60s British Invasion pop/rock roots through an '80s alt-rock sensibility. Pat DiNizio's deep, moody vocals and Jim Babjak's thick, heavy guitar riffs added darkness and modernity to the classic pop structures of the group's songs. They broke big in the mid-'80s, and kept on chugging for quite a while, but, by the end of the '90s, DiNizio shifted his focus elsewhere, working as a solo act and running for political office in New Jersey. The outfit reunited in the late-'00s.

Top Tracks

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• A Girl Like You

• Ask Me Why

• Beauty And Sadness

• Behind The Wall Of Sleep

• Blood And Roses

• Blues Before And After

• Christmas Time All Over The World

• Don't Bother Me

• Especially For You

• Everything I Have Is Blue

• Gloomy Sunday

• House We Used To Live In

• I Saw Her Standing There

• I Want To Hold Your Hand

• If I Fell

• I'm Happy Just To Dance With You

• It Don't Come Easy

• Merry Christmas (i Don't Want To Fight Tonight)

• Merry Christmas, Baby

• Miles From Nowhere

• Much Too Much

• One Look At You

• Only A Memory

• Rings On Her Fingers

• She's Got A Way

• Sick Of Seattle

• Strangers When We Meet

• The Last Good Time

• There's A Place

• Time And Time Again

• Too Much Passion

• Top Of The Pops

• Viennese Hangover

• Yesterday Girl

Discography

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• 2011

  E One / Entertainment One Music

  2011

• B-Sides the Beatles

  Koch Records

  2008

• Live in Concert! Greatest Hits and More

  Koch Records

  2008

• God Save the Smithereens

  Koch Records

  1999

• Date with the Smithereens

  BMG Special Products

  1994

• Blow Up

  Capitol

  1991

• 11

  Capitol

  1989

• Live

  Restless Records

  1987

• Especially for You

  Enigma

  1986