Downtown

Artist: Marshall Crenshaw
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 664140531925
EAN: 0664140531925
ASIN: B000AP306Q

Release Date: 2005-10-25

Downtown

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Tracks:

Little Wild One (No. 5)
Yvonne
Blues Is King
Terrifying Love
Like a Vague Memory
Distance Between
(We're Gonna) Shake Up Their Minds
I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)
Right Now
Lesson Number One

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Field Day
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Customer Reviews:

Amazing album.......2007-05-05

I recently got the Marshall Crenshaw 2-cd set and have been listening to it just about every day. Then when I was searching for the older cds I took a look at the tracks on this one again. All I can tell you is: it's a perfect pop album, like the first couple of Cat Stevens albums, perfect like Marshall's debut. Lesson Number One is a bittersweet song about losing someone; Yvonne is a great rocker; Terrifying Love is a great companion to Little Wild One, in both you have someone willing to do almost anything for a lover. Just amazing, a classic in my book.

Different, but full of beautiful songs.......2006-02-28

Downtown is a gem of an album. This being his third album after the peppy and youthful Field Day and self-titled albums, you might expect something of the same. Marshall has taken a very different direction in his songwriting and mood here. But that is not bad just different. It is introspective and sometimes sad, but there always is a beautiful melody to be found.

I bought Downtown when it was originally released and after a while it grew on me to the point of loving it. His later albums save 'What's in the Bag'(another gem) would go back to being more upbeat. I love them all.

Marshall Crenshaw is a wonderful songwriter, guitar player, and singer. I would highly recommend this album and all his others.

Downtown is worth a look.......2005-11-05

While I do not enjoy Downtown as much as Mary Jean & 9 Others and the self-titled debut...I must say there is still lots of good stuff here. Marshall turned off the compression machine after Field Day and put out a good little rockabilly, country, power pop album here! I really think Marshall needs to embrace what made him so endearing and get back to his guitar orientated, rockin', Buddy Hollyish ways...his last couple of albums have been awful (see: #447 and What's In The Bag?) He should put out an album that takes elements from the first album, Mary Jean, and Miracle of Science...add a Buddy Holly cover tune and whoolah!!! Marshall would win over the masses!!

Steve O.

Rootsy Music from a Pop Master.......2005-11-01

Long before T-Bone Burnett became so well known ("Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"), he was an artist playing with likes of Bob Dylan and a producer with a name for drawing eclectic performances from artists that matched his style (including Elvis Costello, Los Lobos and the BoDeans, to name a few). Marshall Crenshaw was one such artist to benefit from his touch. Burnett stripped the sound down to its essentials, Crenshaw pitched in with some fervent performances. "Downtown" was also packed with some of Crenshaw's usual excellent songwriting. Future classics like "Blues Is King" and "Like a Vague Memory", along with Ben Vaughn's "I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)" appear here.

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