Green Thoughts

by The Smithereens

Green Thoughts cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 March 1988
  • Label: Enigma
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 34:44
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Dennis Diken, Don Dixon, Marti Jones, Pat DiNizio, Del Shannon, Kenny Margolis, Mike Mesaros, Steve Berlin, Jim Babjak

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Refining their melodic guitar-pop formula, the New Jersey quartet delivered a tight, hook-laden collection of alternative rock. The chiming Rickenbacker guitars and melancholic vocal harmonies draw heavily from British Invasion aesthetics while maintaining a distinctively modern, punchy production.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, repetitive, guitar-driven, jangly, nostalgia

Tracklist

  1. Only A Memory (3:39)
  2. House We Used To Live In (4:00)
  3. Something New (1:53)
  4. The World We Know (3:43)
  5. Especially For You (3:17)
  6. Drown In My Own Tears (3:07)
  7. Deep Black (2:45)
  8. Elaine (2:29)
  9. Spellbound (3:58)
  10. If The Sun Doesn't Shine (3:28)
  11. Green Thoughts (2:25)

Credits

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