Our Town (Marshall Crenshaw song)
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| "Our Town" | ||||
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![](#/media/File:"Our_Town"_US_Remix_EP_-_Marshall_Crenshaw.jpg) "US Remix" Our Town EP | ||||
| Song by Marshall Crenshaw | ||||
| from the album Field Day | ||||
| Released | June 1983 | |||
| Recorded | February 1983 | |||
| Studio | Record Plant, New York City | |||
| Genre | New wave | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Marshall Crenshaw | |||
| Producer(s) | Steve Lillywhite | |||
| Marshall Crenshaw singles chronology | ||||
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"Our Town" is a 1983 song by American rock musician Marshall Crenshaw. The song was released on his 1983 album Field Day. Written as an ode to Crenshaw's hometown at the time, New York City, the song features a melody inspired by Babs Cooper's version of "Honest I Do," a record that Crenshaw had heard in his childhood.
Released on Field Day 1983, the song also served as the title track to a "US Remix" EP released in the UK the same year—Crenshaw later panned the remixes for watering down the production. The song has since seen positive critical reception.
Crenshaw said in an interview that "Our Town" is "just a song about being homesick for what was our home then, New York City."[1] Crenshaw later recalled that the song was written quickly, after having not written a song in a while.[2] Crenshaw said that the topic of New York City was something he "could seize on back then."[2]
Melodically, "Our Town" was inspired by Babs Cooper's version of the Innocents' song "Honest I Do," a song that Crenshaw remembered listening to at his house when he was young.[3] Crenshaw described "Honest I Do" as a "really beautiful, kinda girly rock 'n' roll record" and said that "Our Town" features a "sped up" version of the melody from "Honest I Do."