Album · David Lee Roth
Eat ’Em and Smile by David Lee Roth
Eat ’Em and Smile is an album by David Lee Roth, released in 1986. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Tobacco Road”, on 1 list with a best position of #344.
Eat 'Em and Smile, David Lee Roth's first full-length solo album, hit the shops on July 7, 1986, the year after his Crazy from the Heat EP had shown he could make a splash away from Van Halen. Warner Bros. put it out and Ted Templeman produced it, and it plays exactly like you'd hope from the man they call Diamond Dave: hard rock with the grin turned all the way up.
This is Roth's stage persona pressed into vinyl, wild, cocky and allergic to taking anything too seriously, all big riffs, bigger vocal whoops and a showman's instinct for the punchline. "Tobacco Road" and "Shy Boy" were the tracks that turned up on the countdowns. The fans came along for the ride: it went platinum in America, moving more than a million copies.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Eat ’Em and Smile on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tobacco Road | 1 | #344 | – | 1990 | |
| 2 | Shy Boy | 1 | #717 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.