Bloggerhythms

CD players were first introduced to the United States in early 1983. That made Marshall Crenshaw's second LP, Field Day , the last, new, 33 1/3 rpm album I bought in the 1980s. Unfortunately, I found it boring. All of the songs sounded exactly alike. On the other hand, I believed his eponymous debut was perfect, and I still believe that today. I hadn't purchased a CD player yet when I started buying discs, but I made sure I was going to be well supplied on the day I brought my Onkyo single disc player home from a long out-of-business chain store named Stereo Discounters. Among my initial purchases were Crenshaw's soon-to-be classic that I only owned on a poorly recorded homemade cassette that I dubbed from a friend. On that spectacular release, the rocker went out of his way to look and sound like Buddy Holly while playing a masterful combination of rockabilly, power pop, and garage rock that quickly resonated with music lovers, critics, and musici...