Marshall Crenshaw
by Marshall Crenshaw
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Marshall Crenshaw bestography
Marshall Crenshaw is ranked as the best album by Marshall Crenshaw.
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Marshall Crenshaw track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Marshall Crenshaw rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Rolling Stone 1982 Critics Best Albums | 6/6 | - |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 55/100 | 9 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 301-400 | 83/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 | 43/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 | 94/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | Rivera | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 40/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 72 Music Albums of 1982 | 32/72 | 3 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 55 Music Albums of 1982 | 9/55 | 4 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 | 45/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Rivera | 101-200 | 53/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 73 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 341 | |||
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Marshall Crenshaw ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 39 hours ago | dhbarrett | 8,886 | 65/100 |
| ! | 04/13/2026 20:57 |  Milhaud | 2,167 | 71/100 |
| ! | 04/07/2026 01:32 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,652 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 21% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 71.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.7.
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Marshall Crenshaw forum mentions
imacgill 12/10/2025 00:04 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) Romanelli 11/07/2016 20:17 in The Romanelli Music Diary: ExciterMarshall Crenshaw comments
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timtooky 04/02/2014 15:50 | #108316 | TOP COMMENT
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gentle feel-good pop songs without any meaning or sublimity. just a fleeting pleasure. (Edited)
Robert Christgau famously hyped this album and this guy, and yes, it's well-crafted jangly-guitar love-me-girl-I'm-a-sensitive-guy pop music, but Christgau was tripping. "Just forget about the usual thing," Crenshaw sings, on an album of the usual thing. It's cool, I like side 2 enough to play it maybe once in a while, so I keep it around. Good debut album, shame about the unlistenable follow-up (Christgau gave that one an A+).
Never got the attention it deserved. Too bad because this is a really great album.
ffudnebbuh TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/02/2010 21:15 | #15473
best songs: "There she goes again"..really great album
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