Blow Up (The Smithereens album)

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Blow Up
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Studio album by The Smithereens
Released September 10, 1991
Recorded A&M Studios
Brooklyn Recording Studios
Genre Rock
Length 47:58
Label Capitol
Producer Ed Stasium
The Smithereens chronology
11
(1989)111989
Blow Up
(1991)
A Date with The Smithereens
(1994)A Date with The Smithereens1994

Blow Up is the title of the fourth full-length studio album by The Smithereens. The album charted at #120 in the U.S. in late 1991. The second single, "Too Much Passion", became the group's second top-40 single, peaking at #37. Top of the Pops was released as the first single of the album.

Blow Up’s cover design is by movie poster/title sequence artist Saul Bass (“Vertigo,” “West Side Story,” “North by Northwest,” “Psycho”).[1][2][3]

Track listing

All songs written by Pat DiNizio except where indicated.[4]

  1. "Top of the Pops" [4:32]
  2. "Too Much Passion" [4:35]
  3. "Tell Me When Did Things Go So Wrong" [2:22]
  4. "Evening Dress" [3:12]
  5. "Get a Hold of My Heart" (Pat DiNizio / Diane Warren) [4:22]
  6. "Indigo Blues" [4:58]
  7. "Now and Then" (Jim Babjak) [3:50]
  8. "Girl in Room 12" [3:22]
  9. "Anywhere You Are" [3:44]
  10. "Over and Over Again" [3:17]
  11. "It's Alright" [3:45]
  12. "If You Want the Sun to Shine" (Pat DiNizio / Julian Lennon) [5:58]

Credits

Album produced by Ed Stasium. Strings and horns arranged by David Campbell

References

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  4. The Smithereens - Blow Up (CD liner notes). Capitol Records. 7777-94963-2