1.0 link 114035 <![CDATA[The Smithereens "11": A Perfect 10]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sal-nunziato/the-smithereens-11-a-perf_b_114035.html It may have been more appropriate to have written about The Smithereens "11" next year, the twentieth anniversary of its release. But I am getting too much joy from this marvelous record now, so I must share.

I had been thinking about the song "Blue Period," a gorgeous and heartbreaking duet by lead Smithereen Pat DiNizio and Go-Go Belinda Carlisle, featured on this record. Back in 1989 when the MTV crowd was playing air guitar to the opening bombast of the...

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