Blown to Smithereens: Best of The Smithereens is the first compilation album by The Smithereens, released April 4, 1995 by Capitol Records. It features the band's best-known songs and radio hits from 1983's Beauty and Sadness EP to the 1994 album, A Date with The Smithereens.[2] The album also includes a cover of The Outsiders 1966 hit, "Time Won't Let Me", recorded for the film Timecop and released as a single in August 1994.[4]

Blown to Smithereens: Best of The Smithereens
Greatest hits album by The Smithereens
Released	April 4, 1995[1]
Recorded	October 1982 - June 1994
Genre	Rock
Length	61:00
Label	Capitol Records
Producer	Alan Betrock, Don Dixon, Ed Stasium, Ron Fair, Bennett Kaufman
The Smithereens chronology
A Date with The Smithereens (1994) Blown to Smithereens: Best of The Smithereens (1995) Attack of The Smithereens (1995)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All Music	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[3]

Blown to Smithereens has sold 188,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[5]

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes[6] and Discogs.com.[7]

The Smithereens

• Pat DiNizio – vocals, guitar
• Jim Babjak – guitar, backing vocals
• Mike Mesaros – bass, backing vocals
• Dennis Diken – drums, percussion, backing vocals

for track information see individual albums

"Time Won't Let Me" personnel

• Jimmy Wood – harmonica
• Ron Fair – organ, production
• Bennett Kaufman – production
• The Smithereens – production
• Michael C. Ross – engineering
• Tom Lord-Alge – mix
• George Marino – mastering (Sterling Sound, NYC)
• Recorded June 1994 at Record Plant, NYC and Music Grinder, Hollywood, CA

Production

• Wayne Watkins – project director
• Cheryl Pawelski – compilation producer, compiled by
• Brett Milano – liner notes
• Larry Walsh – mastering
• Tommy Steele – art direction
• Andy Engel – design
• Don Miller – cover photography

References

External links

• Blown to Smithereens: Best of the Smithereens on Discogs.com. Retrieved on 11 February 2018.