![]() Opener "There She Goes Again" moves at a perky gallop, hooks aplenty, early 80s pre-college-radio-era pop but delightfully timeless "The Usual Thing" is a Holly-inflected 50s-styled piece of rockabilly and album closer "Not For Me" introduces a hint of baroque pop sophistication, like a great lost Squeeze track. But this pithy slab of pop grandeur has other pleasures as well. Personally, I could just play those three in constant rotation all day long and be content. Three songs alone - "Someday, Someway," "Cynical Girl," and "Mary Anne" - alone make this something of a phenomenon, each as perfect a pop song as one could conjure. Nothing flashy here, just jangly power-pop crossed with classic Buddy Holly-tinged old-school rock & roll, hints of bluegrass-tinged Americana and early Elvis Costello, all relentlessly catchy. But his 1982 self-titled debut holds up as one of the unsung classics of the new wave era. ![]() Marshall Crenshaw has been releasing such consistently great music for so many years that it's easy to take him for granted.
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