Genre: Beatles' pop
Places I remember: Real Groovy Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: I Wanna Be Your Man
Gear costume: Not A Second Time
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: I Wanna Be Your Man
Gear costume: Not A Second Time
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7
Active compensatory factors: The Smithereens is a four piece band from New Jersey. For their seventh studio album they decided to cover the Beatles' U.S. album Meet The Beatles.
Active compensatory factors: The Smithereens is a four piece band from New Jersey. For their seventh studio album they decided to cover the Beatles' U.S. album Meet The Beatles.
Why? Because as Pat DiNizio (vocals and guitar) says, "I believe Meet the Beatles is historically the most important rock-and-roll album ever released in America". Good enough for me!
Given that I don't think anyone improves on a Beatle version (with very rare exceptions), this isn't a bad effort. The arrangements don't stray much from The Beatles and Pat DiNizio's delivery is different, which is fine, but I'll take the originals thanks.
Where do they all belong? Nice to have in the collection, even though it's a bit of a pointless exercise.
