Big Smash! is the third album by the British musician Wreckless Eric. It was released as a double LP (SEEZ 21) and as a cassette (ZSEES 21) on 29 February 1980. While the first LP comprised new material, the extra LP was the U.S.-only compilation album The Whole Wide World. Big Smash! was re-issued as a 2-CD set in 2007 with 3 bonus tracks (CDSEEZ 21).

Critical reception

Billboard praised the "good energetic and basic rock'n'roll" of the album and compared it with the oeuvre of Dave Edmunds, noticing that "Eric has his own sound, personality and point of view". Robert Christgau remarked in his Record Guide that "'Tis said the spunk has gone out of the lad, but though he does wax lyrical at times – I like the one where he admires the style of a girl handing in her tube ticket – he's as rude and scrawny as ever."

Track listings

Double LP (1980)

Side 1 Side 2 Side 3 Side 4

2CD set (2007)

CD 1 CD 2

Personnel

For LP/Disc 1