An occasional feature in which we mark the songs of our relative
youth as played over public muzak systems.
Date: 31August 2014, 12:50 p.m.
Place: Sprouts market
Song: "Someday Someway"
Artist: Marshall Crenshaw
Irony Matrix: 4 out of 10
Comment: I took note about a week ago that earlier this month both Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson turned 60. Those new-wave nerds. Those angry post-punks. They came from musical families and had higher ambitions than just selling snappy 45s. Sixty, now, with less of a sneer. It gives a man pause, especially if he went to high school in the late '70s and college in the early '80s, because he's only a life cycle or so behind.
Marshall Crenshaw (born November 1953 ... age 60) crafted pure pop for what would become the alternative music scene. His songs were sugary and infectious. He played John Lennon on Broadway. He more recently was the young buck in the reconstituted MC5. He has a killer record collection and spins songs on WFUV in New York.
His first hit played at the grocery store today. Halfway through it was interrupted by "Sabrina, please come to the front entrance. Sabrina to the front entrance." And then the song finished. Then I found coconut oil on sale. What more could I have hoped for?
Check out the baggy pants:
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