Especially for You is the first full-length album from New Jersey–based rock band The Smithereens, released in July 1986 by Enigma Records.

[5] The album is notable for the hit "Blood and Roses", which has been featured in multiple movie and TV productions.

Two of its songs became hits on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart: "Blood and Roses" reached No.

[11] The plan was to shop the finished tapes to all the major and minor labels in the hope of securing a deal.

[6] Lead vocalist Pat DiNizio: "This was like a greatest hits album from a band nobody’s heard of because we’d had those songs for five years.