As good as Marshall Crenshaw's debut single, "Something's Gonna Happen" - released on Alan Betrock's Shake label in 1981, was, it was clear that something was going to happen. It did, but not quite as expected. Signing to Warners Brothers in '82, his debut album was called a masterpiece by just about everyone who heard it. Despite some action for "Someday, Someway" that same year, Crenshaw's records never reached the audience those in the know felt he deserved.
Rhino's "The Definitive Pop Collection" finally brought "Something's Gonna Happen" to the digital realm for those of us who missed it the first time, having been left off the expanded re-issue of his first album. The man couldn't make a bad record if he tried, no matter what some think of the drums on "Field Day".
