Throughout Barbara Manning's career, there have been three constants: New Zealand, baseball and her former bandmate Cole Marquis. Constant #1: Manning is perhaps the only more ardent fan of '80s and '90s Kiwi music than Jon Harrison, and "Don't Rewind" has the same nervous tension as many of the great early Flying Nun singles, particularly since Manning sings the lyrics (especially the chorus) as if only tremendous personal control is keeping her from reaching out and smacking the person she's singing to. Constant #2: although the song was originally recorded for a terrific Bay Area AIDS Charity compilation called Acoustic Music Project (Alias Records, 1990), most people know it from her odds and sods compilation One Perfect Green Blanket, the cover and title of which reference Manning's sports obsession. Constant #3: "Don't Rewind" was written by Manning's former 28th Day bandmate Cole Marquis. Although this song dates from the earliest days of her solo career, around the same time as her other signature song "Lately I Keep Scissors," the truth is that as great as some of Barbara Manning's later records have been, this is still her masterpiece.

-Stewart Mason