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“Someday Some Way” by Marshall Crenshaw

From the album Marshall Crenshaw (1982)

“Someday Some Way” by Marshall Crenshaw appears on 21 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1989 and 2025. It was first released in 1982 on the album Marshall Crenshaw. Its best result is #184 on the WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,238 alternative song of all time.

21countdowns
7stations
#184best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1989–2025years charted

"Someday Some Way" is the song that opened the door for Marshall Crenshaw, a single off his self-titled 1982 debut and still the one he's best known for. It began as his spin on Gene Vincent's "Lotta Lovin'": he took that beat, leaned on it until it turned hypnotic, and hung a brand-new melody on top, bright and sweet and built like an AM-radio gem from a simpler time.

The words look plain on paper, but Crenshaw has said there's more going on underneath, and he's traced them back to the early days of his marriage. Robert Gordon actually got the song out first, in 1981, and both versions caught on with New York radio, but it was Crenshaw's that went national and cracked the American top 40.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1989 479 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) 500
1994 352 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1996 355 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) 498
1999 251 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
1999 1546 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 339 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) 500
2000 1547 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 339 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) 498
2001 1547 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2001 184 WFPK WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time 2000
2002 1543 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 1547 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 1025 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 1547 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1547 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 311 WTMD WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time 897
2008 1985 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2016 495 WYEP WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 913
2023 459 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s 850
2023 1020 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 1229
2025 723 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs 800

Also listed as: Someday Someway; Someday, Someway; Somday Someway.

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