Blow Up (The Smithereens album)

Blow Up
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) Blow Up (1991) A Date with The Smithereens (1994)

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]

Personnel

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

References