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#447 | 
| Artist: Marshall Crenshaw
Label: Razor & Tie
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 117126
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 793018284424
EAN: 0793018284424
ASIN: B00001NTQW
Release Date: September 28, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Opening | | • | Dime a Dozen Guy | | • | Television Light | | • | Glad Goodbye | | • | West of Bald Knob | | • | Tell Me All About It | | • | Ready Right Now | | • | Eydie's Tune | | • | T.M.D. | | • | Right There in Front of Me | | • | You Said What?? |
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Pop-rocker Marshall Crenshaw's output--eight studio albums and a couple of collections of odds and ends over his nearly two-decade recording career--isn't the most prodigious in terms of size. But even the least ambitious of his records, such as #447, are suffused with a sweet puckishness that's never at odds with the resigned tone he often favors. Where 1996's Miracle of Science made up for a paucity of new songs with imaginatively chosen covers (Ray Price, Dobie Gray, Grant Hart), #447 fills space with three smooth instrumentals that suggest some smart indie-film music supervisor should hire Crenshaw. (He supplied music for the short-lived sitcom Men Behaving Badly and was seen in La Bamba and Peggy Sue Got Married.) Among the additions to his seemingly endless catalog of relationship-crisis numbers are "Dime a Dozen Guy" and "Glad Goodbye," while "T.M.D." (presumably titled "Truly, Madly, Deeply" before Savage Garden beat him to the punch) is a rarity on this record: a song about being happy in love. Go figure. --Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
Stand up (bass) for Mr. Crenshaw December 10, 1999
jeffery k. frangione (ROCKville, Maryland, USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Although I agree that as far as running times go, this effort is a bit short, but there are the usual gems we have come to count on from M.C. With surf guitar sounds on "Dime a Dozen Guy," to the instant classic "Television Light" (By the way, this was originally titled "What I didn't Want to Do"), this is trademark Crenshaw--not to imply he doesn't flirt with several styles. Instrumentals are sprinkled throughout, and the moodiness of the album ebbs and flows. Tell me that "Right There In Front of Me" wasn't lifted from Mary Jean & 9 Others sessions and I would doubt you. Overall, another M.C. jewel, And one That gets better with repeated plays. One further note, I love M.C. with a rock band, but the addition of strings and stand up bass add to the atmospherics...
 Almost as good as the last Cd, but so damned short!! October 13, 1999
Todd Rosenstock (Newtown Square, PA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While not quite up to the really polished gem of Miracle of Science, this new CD eliminates the covers (a MOS strong point) and substitutes instrumentals and some inane filler (the intro). Most of the songs are up to his normal standards, especially the gorgeous "T.M.D." and "Dime A Dozen Guy". The collaborations with Richard Julian and Bill Lloyd are surprisingly weak (the latter is the worst song on the disc). And guess what--2 out of 3 of the instrumentals are excellent ("You Said What?" is a standout). Crenshaw is still the power-pop king, and this CD does nothing to tarnish that rep. Minus one star for a running time of just over a half-hour; going retro does not mean ignoring that CD's run 60-75 minutes!
 A Rock Journey Back to the Future October 13, 1999
Alydar (New York)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Marshall's new one needs 3 or 4 listens and then it hits you. WOW ! From the first cut, Opening which rockabillies like a Bill Haley's Comet you then change stations and find yourself hearing the Beatles and John Lennon in Dime a Dozen Guy and next get ready for a major jump to a Gin Blossoms/Jakob Dylan folkie rock twang then sweep into a Buddy Holly romp in Glad Goodbye into a Santo & Johnny styled - West of Bald Knob (instrumental)...and that's all I have been to - I keep listening to it over and over and over .... I Can'T Wait to discover the last 6 tracks and I hope there's a #448 out there Mr. Crenshaw. You never cease to amaze me! Another great talent in the shadows...
Not only hook-laden, but long on atmosphere! September 29, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mr. Crenshaw takes a bit of a turn on this CD, with mucho atmospheric production created by use of strings, stand-up bass, bongos, etc., all used to back-up his still-solid and varied use of, yes, the guitar (electric and otherwise)...Definitely mature but still in love with rock n roll, the album gets happier as it progresses, and a few moody instrumenstals placed throughout make for nice change of paces...I don't know if this'll win any new converts (take a chance!), but any Crenshaw fans who strayed around the time Warners stopped considering him "commercially viable" should perhaps consider this the portal with which to reaquaint themselves with his catchy and plaintive world...
A REAL good record.... November 13, 1999
Kevin A Brady (Mars)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
First of all, the truth --- the last time I heard anything by Marshall Crenshaw was "Someday, Someway" back in, what, 1980? I have this enormous collection of LP's, 45's, and CD's and not one note of it is by Marshall Crenshaw... until now. I heard "Dime A Dozen Guy" on a non-commercial radio station out of the Philly area (XPN, Penn State radio) and at first thought that a McCartney-MacManus album had finally come out. When I heard it was Marshall Crenshaw I was, admittedly, floored. Secondly, more truth --- I bought this from Amazon along with the latest from Billy Bragg... and on first listen I have to say this beats the Billy Bragg hands down. A big surprise. Lots of nice songs here... other great one on first listen --- Right There in Front of Me. Buy this.
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