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{{Infobox album
| name       = Wake Up and Smell the... Carcass
| type       = compilation
| artist     = Carcass
| cover      = Carcass-WakeUpAndSmellThe.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{Start date|1996|11|12|df=y}}
| recorded   = {{Start date|1989|2|df=y}}–{{End date|1995|4|df=y}}
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = {{Flatlist|
*[[Death metal]]
*[[grindcore]]}}
| length     = {{Duration|m=75|s=52}}
| label      = [[Earache Records|Earache]]
| producer   = [[Colin Richardson]], [[Tony Wilson]], Carcass
| prev_title = [[Swansong (album)|Swansong]]
| prev_year  = 1996
| next_title = [[Choice Cuts (Carcass album)|Choice Cuts]]
| next_year  = 2004
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusicrev">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=wake-up-and-smell-the-carcass-mw0000664407 |label=Carcass: ''Wake Up and Smell the Carcass'' > Overview |last=Raggett |first=Ned |accessdate=16 October 2011}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev2score = 8/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=[[Collector's Guide Publishing]] |year=2007 |location=[[Burlington, Ontario]], Canada |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=72}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Quietus]]''
| rev3Score = Favorable<ref name="quietusrev">{{cite web |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/01923-carcass-wake-up-and-smell-the-carcass-reissue-review |title=Carcass: Wake Up and Smell the Carcass |date=22 June 2009 |last=Eglinton |first=Mark |work=[[The Quietus]] |location=London |accessdate=30 January 2015}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}

'''''Wake Up and Smell the... Carcass''''' is a compilation album by the band [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]], and is also the name of a video/DVD compilation of the band's songs. The cover is a photo of [[John F. Kennedy]]'s autopsy.

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline     = CD
| all_lyrics   = Jeffrey Walker, except where noted
| all_music    = Bill Steer, except where noted
| extra_column = Taken from
| title1       = Edge of Darkness
| note1        = Unreleased track
| extra1       = [[Swansong (album)|Swansong]] sessions
| length1      = 6:08
| title2       = Emotional Flatline
| note2        = Unreleased track
| extra2       = Swansong sessions
| length2      = 4:15
| title3       = Ever Increasing Circles
| note3        = Unreleased track, music by Steer, Carlo Regadas
| extra3       = Swansong sessions
| length3      = 4:05
| title4       = Blood Spattered Banner
| note4        = Unreleased track
| extra4       = Swansong sessions
| length4      = 4:41
| title5       = I Told You So (Corporate Rock Really Does Suck)
| note5        = Unreleased track
| extra5       = Swansong sessions
| length5      = 3:50
| title6       = Buried Dreams
| note6        = Unreleased version
| extra6       = [[BBC Radio 1|Radio 1]] Rock Show session
| length6      = 4:05
| title7       = No Love Lost
| note7        = Unreleased version, intro music by Ken Owen
| extra7       = Radio 1 Rock Show session
| length7      = 4:51
| title8       = Rot 'n' Roll
| note8        = Unreleased version
| extra8       = Radio 1 Rock Show session
| length8      = 3:44
| title9       = Edge of Darkness
| note9        = Unreleased version
| extra9       = Radio 1 Rock Show session
| length9      = 5:48
| title10      = This is Your Life
| extra10      = [[The Heartwork EP]]
| length10     = 4:08
| title11      = Rot 'n' Roll
| extra11      = The Heartwork EP
| length11     = 3:49
| title12      = Tools of the Trade
| note12       = Music by Steer, Michael Amott
| extra12      = [[Tools of the Trade]]
| length12     = 3:05
| title13      = Pyosisified (Still Rotten to the Gore)
| note13       = Lyrics and music by Walker, Steer
| extra13      = Tools of the Trade
| length13     = 3:09
| title14      = Hepatic Tissue Fermentation II
| extra14      = Tools of the Trade
| length14     = 6:38
| title15      = Genital Grinder II
| extra15      = ''Pathological'' compilation
| length15     = 3:00
| title16      = Hepatic Tissue Fermentation
| note16       = Music by Owen, Walker, Steer
| extra16      = ''Pathological'' compilation
| length16     = 6:11
| title17      = Exhume to Consume
| note17       = Music by Owen
| extra17      = [[Grindcrusher]] compilation
| length17     = 4:18
}}

{{Track listing
| headline     = DVD
| title1       = Heartwork
| title2       = Corporeal Jigsore Quandary
| title3       = Keep on Rotting in the Free World
| title4       = Incarnated Solvent Abuse
| title5       = No Love Lost
| title6       = Inpropagation
| title7       = Corporeal Jigsore Quandary
| title8       = Reek of Putrefaction
| title9       = Pedigree Butchery
| title10      = Incarnated Solvent Abuse
| title11      = Carneous Cacoffiny
| title12      = Lavaging Expectorate of Lysergide Composition
| title13      = Exhume to Consume
| title14      = Tools of the Trade
| title15      = Ruptured in Purulence
| title16      = Genital Grinder II
| title17      = Exhume to Consume
| title18      = Excoriating Abdominal Emanation
| title19      = Ruptured in Purulence
| title20      = Empathological Necroticism
| title21      = Embryonic Necropsy and Devourment
| title22      = Reek of Putrefaction
}}
Tracks 1-5 are the band's promo videos, 6-15 were recorded live in 1992 on the "Gods of Grind" tour, and 16-22 were recorded in 1989 on the "Grindcrusher Tour".

==Personnel==
===Carcass===
* [[Ken Owen]] – drums, backing vocals (12, 14–17)
* [[Bill Steer]] – guitar, vocals (12–14, 16–17)
* [[Jeff Walker (musician)|Jeffrey Walker]] – bass guitar, vocals, compilation compiling
* [[Michael Amott]] – lead guitar (12–13)
* Carlo Regadas – lead guitar (1–9)

===Technical personnel===
* [[Colin Richardson]] – production (1–5, 12–14), mixing (10–11)
* Stephen Harris – engineering (1–5)
* Nick Brine – assistant engineering (1–5)
* Barney Herbert – assistant engineering (1–5)
* Jim Brumby – assistant engineering (1–5)
* [[Tony Wilson]] – production (6–9)
* Ted De Bono – engineering (6–9)
* Ken Nelson – engineering (10–11)
* Andrea Wright – assistant engineering (10–11)
* Keith Hartley – engineering (12–16)
* Ian McFarlane – assistant engineering (12–14)
* Keith Andrews – engineering (17)
* [[Digby Pearson]] – executive production
* Mitch Dickinson – compilation compiling
* Noel Summerville – mastering
* Antz White – art direction, design, digital manipulation
* Dan Tobin – sleeve notes

==References==
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