Date With the Smithereens

Smithereens | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 8, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bmg Special Product
• ASIN: B00000JCE0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,941 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. War for My Mind

2. Everything I Have Is Blue

3. Miles from Nowhere

4. Afternoon Tea

5. Point of No Return

6. Sleep the Night Away

7. Love Is Gone

8. Long Way Back Again

9. Gotti

10. Sick of Seattle

11. Can't Go Home Anymore

12. Life Is So Beautiful [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not thier best CD - Not Thier Worst Either..., April 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Date With the Smithereens (Audio CD)

I was let down the first time I heard this, (Unlike the first time I heard "Strangers When We Meet" from Especially for You - I was in my car and played it 4-6(?) times before I heard the rest of the tape) - but after repeated listenings "Date" grew on me.

The album is very dark and moody - this album came right out when Seattle Grunge exploded and you can hear how it effected the band in the production and moody writing. I think the time they spent with the Record Cemetary of America was just a BAD time for the group or Pat was listening to too many Black Sabbath LP's, who knows?

Some songs just dont have killer hooks, and are played at too slow a tempo and just plod on, but its not a total waste of plastic by far. The best songs on is the upbeat (but downcast) "Love Is Gone" written by Jim Babjak, and Pat's "Miles From Nowhere", and the heavy "Everything I Have Is Blue".

BTW get the original CD from a Used or Cutout bin, not the budget reissue with the deleted liner notes and lyrics.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A date with old friends and good songs., November 20, 2006

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R. Isherwood (Fort Collins, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Date With the Smithereens (Audio CD)

This criminally overlooked release by the Smithereens ranks as one of the best pop albums of the 90s. The songs and performances are as good as anything the band released in their prime late eighties period.

If you do not own this, do yourself a favor as "Date" is as great a pop jem as "11" and "Blow Up". Long live The Smithereens.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Why the dissing?, March 28, 2001

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Peter Thurmes (Little Canada MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Date With the Smithereens (Audio CD)

I have been a fan of this band ever since I heard "Blood and Roses", and ran out and bought vinyl the next day. I have every one of their albums but the last, having bought "Date" maybe 2 years ago in the cutouts.

I'm not sure why everyone is so down on this album. The only bad thing I can say is that several of the songs sound very similar to each other - so OK, Pat's imagination was a little (...) during this period. But a couple songs really stand out. "Gotti" is a great rock tune, while I think "Afternoon Tea" is perhaps now my favorite Smithereens song. (I happen to think their mellow stuff is underrated - I think they stand among my favorites from this band).

This is not a terrific collection, but it DID whet my appetite for more, rather than convince me the band is dead. Of course, the 6 years of silence had me worried. Now I've gotta go out and get their most recent.