Marshall Crenshaw
by Marshall Crenshaw

Marshall Crenshaw by Marshall Crenshaw
Year: 1982
Overall rank: 4,115th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 85 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1982 (61st)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (607th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,115th)

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Marshall Crenshaw is ranked as the best album by Marshall Crenshaw.

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Marshall Crenshaw rankings

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Overall rank: 4,115th | 1980s rank: 607th | 1982 rank: 61st

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 85 votes)
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12/17/2025 05:04 Proto  Ratings distribution  4,10933/100
 
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12/22/2023 00:33 BorderFreeAndrew  Ratings distribution  15,00874/100

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From 10/13/2020 04:26 | #259241
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+).
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From 04/02/2014 15:50 | #108316
gentle feel-good pop songs without any meaning or sublimity. just a fleeting pleasure.
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From 06/18/2012 23:58 | #44698
Never got the attention it deserved. Too bad because this is a really great album.
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From 10/02/2010 21:15 | #15473
best songs: "There she goes again"..really great album
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