| "You're My Favorite Waste of Time" | ||||
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| Single by Marshall Crenshaw | ||||
| A-side | "Someday, Someway" | |||
| Released | May 1982 | |||
| Recorded | Crenshaw's home, Pelham, New York[1] | |||
| Genre | Rock, new wave | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Marshall Crenshaw | |||
| Marshall Crenshaw singles chronology | ||||
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| "You're My Favorite Waste of Time" on YouTube | ||||
"You're My Favorite Waste of Time" (also known as "Favorite Waste of Time" and "My Favourite Waste of Time") is a song written and first released by American singer Marshall Crenshaw. His 1979 home demo of the song was released as the B-side of his 1982 hit "Someday, Someway" and is available on his compilations The 9 Volt Years and This Is Easy: The Best of Marshall Crenshaw.
Written by Crenshaw while in Beatlemania, the song was inspired by the Hollies and featured tongue-in-cheek lyrics about his wife. The song, though originally a B-side, would later be covered by many artists, including Bette Midler, who had a minor hit with the song in Australia and the US in 1983, and Owen Paul, who reached number 3 in Britain with his rendition.