Marshall Crenshaw

Marshall Crenshaw | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Catalog and O/H
• ASIN: B000002KNL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,427 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #13 in Music > Rock > Power Pop

Editorial Reviews

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One of the best releases of the '80s (by one of the most consistent album artists in rock since that time), Marshall Crenshaw is a jukebox of catchy riffs, hooky choruses, and beatific harmonies from Detroit-reared singer-guitarist Crenshaw and his trio. This is a classic driving album, beach album, doing-housework album--you could pay your taxes to it and still bop along joyously. From the jangly opener "There She Goes Again" to the sparkling pop of "Someday Someway" and "Mary Anne" to the lyrically compelling rockers like "Cynical Girl" and "The Usual Thing," Crenshaw and producer Richard Gottehrer (Go-Go's, Blondie) conjure up a timeless pop sheen that highlights the band's neo-retro hooks with exotica-like glockenspiel. The production adds the odd touch of magic to this classic, from a purposeful young songwriter-singer-guitarist busting out of the gate at the top of his game. --Don Harrison

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Marshall Crenshaw by Marshal Crenshaw

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Right Sound, Wrong Time, June 11, 2001

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Steven Clem Haley "Steve is in Stillwater" (Stillwater, Oklahoma United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marshall Crenshaw (Dlx) (Audio CD)

Yes we can all whine about how under-rated Marshall has always been. But what good would that do us or him? Let's move on. Simply put, Crenshaw is THE most amazing song-crafter I have ever heard.

In 1981 Glam-rock and Arena-rock were selling out concerts all over the world. We were living in a musical world that wanted to buy the sizzle and not the steak. You remember the concerts where the quality of the band was how many guitars and Marshall amps were built across the back of the stage like cliffs of the California coast. The sales of a group's music was based on how much spandex and hair spray they wore. Video was changing the way we bought music. We now bought it for the way it looked rather than how it sounded.

But humbly, with no marketing support, no big name producer, dressed like the guy you used to beat up after chemistry tests for not letting you cheat, Crenshaw makes his first statement in this album.

And with this one album, the word "Pop" is clarified. All of a sudden, tunes now mean something. Simple lyrics, albeit not Pulitzer prize-winning, stay in your head and cause you to think "I know exactly what he 's talking about." Suddenly we want to ask out our high school sweetheart again. Suddenly we want to just hang out on the hood of the car.

By the time we heard this -as well as his second album "Field Trip", we had tired of being told what we should listen too on the radios and video channels. We yearned to go back home.

This, fellow Boomers, is a trip back home.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked Gem, September 14, 2000

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Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marshall Crenshaw (Dlx) (Audio CD)

Marshall Crenshaw achieved his greatest commercial and critical success with the release of his debut album. It is an impressive debut and 18 years after its release, Rhino Records has rereleased the album with a slew of bonus tracks. The original album is a pure power-pop treasure that is an overlooked gem. "There She Goes Again", "She Can't Dance", "Rockin' Around NYC" and "Mary Anne" are great examples of Mr. Crenshaw's ability to record short, snappy and hummable songs that will stick in your head. "Someday, Someway" was his only top forty hit, just barely scrapping in at #38, and is an immediately catchy number. I think the best song on the album and a song that should have been a hit is "Cynical Girl". It has a ringing guitar and some of the sharpest lyrics around. As usual with a Rhino release there are numerous bonus tracks and the nine included here are mostly demos and live songs. There is no filler amongst them and they only help to add to original tracks. Mr. Crenshaw has released numerous album since this one, has appeared as Buddy Holly in the movie LaBamba and co-wrote the Gin Blossoms hit "Till I Hear It From You", but he unfortunately has never come close to having another hit on his own since this record and it is shame. Rolling Stone included the album in it's top 100 of the 1980's and it is deserving of the honor.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Crenshaw Delux, August 16, 2000

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James Simon (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marshall Crenshaw (Dlx) (Audio CD)

What a pleseant surprise that the great folks at Rhino have not just remastered Marshall Crenshaw's debut album, but have jam packed enough bonus material that nearly doubles it's original running time. There's even a "mystery" bonus track at the end of track 21, an extremely catchy song called " Brand New Lover". Why hide it is a mystery to me. The album itself has always been a good one with classics like "Someday, Someway" and "There She Goes Again". The bonus tracks are mostly great gems including the B-sides "You're My Favorite Waste Of Time" and "Somebody Like You", last seen on the out of print compilation "Attack Of The Killer B's" (Hey WB, how about reissuing those albums, too?). There's the beautiful '79 demos of "Starlit Summer Sky" which he had packed away for '96's Miracle Of Science record (which I highly recommend) and "Rave On" firming up those Buddy Holly comparrisons which he's thankfully moved on from. A very enjoyable album, and worth upgrading to if you own the original.