While
Marshall Crenshaw went on to write and record plenty of other great songs
during his career – the 2000 compilation The
Best of Marshall Crenshaw: This Is Easy is well worth checking out – he
never released a better or more consistent set of power-pop nuggets than on his
1982 debut album. Although he did creep into the Top 40 for the first and only
time with “Someday, Someway” (which peaked at a modest #36), Crenshaw may be
better known for playing Buddy Holly in the 1987 Richie Valens biopic La Bamba. The casting would have been apt
even without the physical resemblance; Crenshaw’s tunes do sound something like
Holly’s work, but they sound even more like tracks Holly probably would have
recorded had he come of age in the 1980s rather than the 1950s. It also doesn’t
seem like an accident that Crenshaw co-wrote “Til I Hear It From You”, which
was one of the biggest hits for the Gin Blossoms.
“Someday, Someway”
is my favorite song from the album, but they’re really all pretty great (and if
you like that one, you’ll almost certainly like the rest). I was tempted to
just write the names of the other songs on slips of paper and draw them out of
a hat, which would have produced a list about as good as the one below.
Favorite
tracks:
Rockin’
Around In N.Y.C.
Soldier Of
Love
Mary Anne
There She
Goes Again
She Can’t
Dance
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