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Green Thoughts | 
| Artist: The Smithereens
Label: Lemon
Category: Music
List Price: £10.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 163297
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5013929760929
ASIN: B0000C24MZ
Release Date: March 5, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Only A Memory | | • | House We Used To Live In | | • | Something New | | • | World We Know | | • | Especially For You | | • | Drown In My Own Tears | | • | Deep Black | | • | Elaine | | • | Spellbound | | • | If The Sun Doesn't Shine | | • | Green Thoughts |
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| Customer Reviews:
1988's masterpiece from the Smithereens... August 4, 2007
Jason Parkes (Worcester, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Green Thoughts is my favourite Smithereens album, one that sadly died in the recent flood, so I'm very happy to see a reissue of it at mid price recently! 1986's Especially for You is a great album, one I got due to near hit 'Behind the Wall of Sleep' (ripped off by REM for 'The One I Love') and a record that contains joys like 'In a Lonely Place', 'Bed of Roses', 'Cigarette.' Green Thoughts perfects the sound of Especially for You, which with 1990's Smithereens 11, formed a perfect trio of albums. It's telling that Kurt Cobain was listening to a lot of Smithereens when he wrote the songs that would become Nevermind...
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br /I first got this album in a bargain bin in Woolworths in Maidenhead in 1990, and it's one I go back to - I was playing it in my car not that long ago (before its destruction in the flood). Still...I can't throw it out. Green Thoughts is Loaded and Packed, choc full of great songs, everyone a favourite. I know every song and probably like to sing along. It's all fantastic, from the Lemonheadsy-'Elaine' to the jazzy 'Especially for You' and the two great singles 'The World We Know' (monster rickenbacker riffs) and 'The House We Used to Live In.' The Smithereens are partly responsible for the power pop acts that followed - The Posies, Sloan, The Wondermints, Pernice Brothers - as they are the thing that some call EMO. Their Beatles/Byrds 60s inflections were quite prescient too; though not sure about their lyric that has the singer find a girl attractive as she resembles Bill Wyman!!!!
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br /The album...oh, it's all great - the Costello-meets-the Byrds sound of 'Something New', opener 'Only a Memory', the darker 'Deep Black' (not just lyrically), the aching anthemic 'Drown In My Tears', and everything topped off with the jubiliant title track. It's strange I have less to say about an album I know like the back of my hand...The Smithereens didn't go on to breakthrough to larger audiences like Crowded House and REM, but they did release some classic stuff in the US 80s-90s and Green Thoughts is a primary example of that.
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