The Wonder Years (Michael W. Smith box set)

Infobox Album
Name = The Wonder Years 1983-1993
Type = box
Artist = Michael W. Smith


Released = 1993
Recorded = 1983-1992
Genre = Christian contemporary
Length = 2:24:19
Label = Reunion Records
Producer =
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Last album = "Change Your World (Michael W. Smith album)" (1992)
This album = "The Wonder Years (Michael W. Smith box set)" (1993)
Next album = "The First Decade (1983-1993)" (1993)

The Wonder Years 1983-1993 book/2-CD package was released by Reunion Records in 1993, and intended to be a greatest hits/career overview album. The elaborate slipcase packaging contained a tall spiral-bound book (10.5"x6") that contained facing pairs of pages highlighting each of his (at the time) 8 albums. Each spread featured photographs and an accompanying background story on this period in his career. Inside the back cover are 2 trays which contain the 2 picture CDs.

This album has since gone out of print in favor of the more modest (and more focused) greatest hits collection The First Decade (1983-1993), which was released later that same year. This album is also notable to collectors for being the only issued CD containing the radio single version of "I Know" from The Live Set.

Track listing

Disc One

#"Friends" - 4:20
#"You Need a Savior" - 3:35
#"Could He Be the Messiah" - 4:29
#"Great Is the Lord" - 2:54
#"A Way" - 3:52
#"Hosanna" - 2:30
#"I Am Sure" - 4:43
#"Pursuit of the Dream" - 5:12
#"Lamu" - 5:24
#"Rocketown" - 4:35
#"Old Enough to Know" - 4:20
#"Going Through the Motions" - 4:25
#"I Know" - 4:21
#"Emily" - 4:18
#"Secret Ambition" - 5:57
#"Pray For Me" - 3:53
#"I Miss the Way" - 4:34

Disc Two

#"I Hear Leesha" - 5:26
#"The Throne" - 6:55
#"All Is Well" - 4:08
#"Gloria" - 5:03
#"Go West Young Man" - 3:54
#"Love Crusade" - 4:23
#"Place in This World" - 3:58
#"Seed to Sow" - 5:40
#"For You" - 4:00
#"Picture Perfect" - 3:58
#"I Will Be Here For You" - 4:35
#"Somewhere Somehow" - 4:21 (Duet with Amy Grant)
#"Give It Away" - 5:07
#"Love One Another" - 4:53
#"Cross of Gold" - 4:20