Patty Smyth - Never Enough (Expanded Edition - Remastered) (1987/2025)

Patty Smyth, an Oscar and Grammy nominated singer and songwriter, burst onto the scene with the band Scandal in 1982 and its self-titled debut that turned out to be the best-selling EP in Columbia Records history. The album featured the hit single, “Goodbye to You,” a song Smyth co-wrote, and the hits “Love’s Got a Line on You” and “Win Some, Lose Some.” In 1984, the group’s first full-length album, The Warrior, climbed into the Top 20 on the sales chart, eventually earning RIAA-certified platinum status, with more than a million in sales. Smyth’s 1992 solo album featured her biggest hit ever, “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough,” a song she wrote that featured a performance by Don Henley. The song reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and stayed there for six consecutive weeks, going No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart. The album and the single each earned platinum status. The album also produced the hits “No Mistakes,” “I Should be Laughing” and “Shine.”

"I'm probably overrating this record a little. Certainly there are times when its big, every-hair-in-place production makes the big, barely controllable emotions she's going for sound hopelessly false, and from rejected partner Billy Steinberg to new producer Rick Chertoff, the songcraft is manufactured Springsteen. Yet something just slightly bruised in Smyth's big voice recalls the pop axiom that manufacture and integrity aren't mutually exclusive. Kind of like with Katrina Leskanich, only not so's you'd play the album on your own free will. And most would say I overrate Katrina Leskanich." (Robert Christgau)

Patty Smyth, lead vocals
Eric Bazilian, keyboards, guitars, backing vocals
Rob Hyman, keyboards, backing vocals
Ralph Schuckett, keyboards
Richard Termini, keyboards
Peter Wood, keyboards
Rick DiFonzo, guitars
Keith Mack, guitars
William Wittman, guitars, backing vocals
Tommy Conwell, guitar solo (track 6)
Neil Jason, bass
Anton Fig, drums, percussion
Ray Spiegel, tabla
David Sanborn, alto saxophone solo (track 2)
Magic Dick, harmonica solo (track 3)
John Agnello, backing vocals
Ellison Chase, backing vocals
Rory Dodd, backing vocals
Andy King, backing vocals
John Loeffler, backing vocals
Kasim Sulton, backing vocals
Eric Troyer, backing vocals

Digitally remastered

TRACKLIST

1. Patty Smyth - Never Enough
2. Patty Smyth - Downtown Train
3. Patty Smyth - Give It Time
4. Patty Smyth - Call To Heaven
5. Patty Smyth - The River Cried
6. Patty Smyth - Isn't It Enough
7. Patty Smyth - Sue Lee
8. Patty Smyth - Tough Love
9. Patty Smyth - Heartache Heard Round The World
10. Patty Smyth - Never Enough (Single Version)
11. Patty Smyth - Downtown Train (Single Version)
12. Patty Smyth - Isn't It Enough (Single Version)
13. Patty Smyth - I Run Right Back (From "Caddyshack II" Original Soundtrack)