Also, it look me way to long to realize that the Counting Crows were clearly aping his thing on Omaha if not at least half of the rest of August and Everything After.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:03 pm
by bfj
I Need a Lover and Paper In Fire are also top notch.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:11 pm
by EnochRoot
As a teenager I liked Lonesome Jubilee the most of his work to date, but other tracks of his I liked was Authority Song, Rumbleseat and Lonely Ol’ Night.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:17 pm
by EnochRoot
Not a fan of his cover of Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:40 pm
by govmentchedda
So many good ones, but I agree Cherry Bomb is my favorite as well. That bridge and chorus with the honkytonk beat and the harmonica? Fucking great.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:42 pm
by govmentchedda
So many of his earlier ones are just happily etched onto my 6-10 year old brain. Pink Houses, Jack and Diane, Hurts so Good, R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A., were ubiquitous in the early-mid 80's.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:55 pm
by HaulCitgo
Babysitter boyfriend music. Hey kid. This is asteroids. Don't come back. I didn't. But I could still hear the music.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 2:49 pm
by Shirley
Outside of Jack & Diane, I never liked his stuff. Something about him always bugged me.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:11 pm
by sancarlos
Get a Leg Up is a great song, too.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:42 pm
by mister d
Not sure if I’ve said it here before, but if you ever want to piss off a hardcore Springsteen fan, make a Mellencamp comp.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:49 pm
by Steve of phpBB
Little Pink Houses and Small Town always annoyed me, but I ended up liking just about everything else he did that I heard, going back to his John Cougar days.
I seem to recall liking Rain on the Scarecrow the best, though I haven't heard that song in decades.
I was basically the same age as Jack and Diane.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:52 pm
by rass
mister d wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:42 pm
Not sure if I’ve said it here before, but if you ever want to piss off a hardcore Springsteen fan, make a Mellencamp comp.
Every so often I think of this strip (among others, Bloom County was big for young rass) and your comment inspired me to Google it again and this time I found it!!!
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Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:03 pm
by rass
And now that this thread has gotten a little traction, time for a Mellencamp-related hot take:
Even though she’s only got the second-best head of hair in the Cherry Bomb video, the fiddle player is *still* the gold standard for hot fiddle players.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:07 pm
by EnochRoot
sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:11 pm
Get a Leg Up is a great song, too.
I hadn’t thought of that song in a long, long time. That LP, ‘Whenever We Wanted” also had the track, ‘Love and Happiness’, which is not a cover of Al Green’s song.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:10 pm
by Shirley
rass wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:03 pm
And now that this thread has gotten a little traction, time for a Mellencamp-related hot take:
Even though she’s only got the second-best head of hair in the Cherry Bomb video, the fiddle player is *still* the gold standard for hot fiddle players.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:43 pm
by DaveInSeattle
rass wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:03 pm
Even though she’s only got the second-best head of hair in the Cherry Bomb video, the fiddle player is *still* the gold standard for hot fiddle players.
Lisa Germano. She's still out there making music.
Best Melloncamp song? My favorite is Paper In Fire. His cover of Wild Night is pretty good too.
Saw him in '92(?) when I was living in Bloomington. He played at Memorial Stadium, on Little 500 weekend, so it was a big deal. A guy I knew had an in with someone in the ticket office, and got me a ticket in the first 20 rows. Really fun show. His drummer, Kenny Aronoff, was amazing. As was Germano.
One of the opening acts: Billy Ray Cyrus.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:04 pm
by bfj
Rules people.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:18 pm
by A_B
rass wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:03 pm
And now that this thread has gotten a little traction, time for a Mellencamp-related hot take:
Even though she’s only got the second-best head of hair in the Cherry Bomb video, the fiddle player is *still* the gold standard for hot fiddle players.
Amanda Shires called to tell you that you couldn't be more wrong.
rass wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:03 pm
And now that this thread has gotten a little traction, time for a Mellencamp-related hot take:
Even though she’s only got the second-best head of hair in the Cherry Bomb video, the fiddle player is *still* the gold standard for hot fiddle players.
Amanda Shires called to tell you that you couldn't be more wrong.
Figured that was what was gonna make the take hot around here
rass wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:03 pm
And now that this thread has gotten a little traction, time for a Mellencamp-related hot take:
Even though she’s only got the second-best head of hair in the Cherry Bomb video, the fiddle player is *still* the gold standard for hot fiddle players.
rass wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:03 pm
And now that this thread has gotten a little traction, time for a Mellencamp-related hot take:
Even though she’s only got the second-best head of hair in the Cherry Bomb video, the fiddle player is *still* the gold standard for hot fiddle players.
Amanda Shires called to tell you that you couldn't be more wrong.
Figured that was what was gonna make the take hot around here
Different generations and all, but Shires is the goat.
rass wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:03 pm
And now that this thread has gotten a little traction, time for a Mellencamp-related hot take:
Even though she’s only got the second-best head of hair in the Cherry Bomb video, the fiddle player is *still* the gold standard for hot fiddle players.
Amanda Shires called to tell you that you couldn't be more wrong.
What is a society without RULES?
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2020 1:13 pm
by rass
bfj wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 6:04 pm
Rules people.
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Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2020 1:51 pm
by bfj
That pic isn’t helping your argument.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 9:59 am
by Giff
God I hate her voice.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:08 am
by mister d
2 > 1 >>> 3
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 12:05 pm
by Jerloma
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 8:28 pm
by bapo!
Mellencamp was one of my first favorite singers/musicians/bands. After a brief fling with Styx, Mellencamp and Duran Duran shared top billing for a few years. I grew up surrounded by farms, so maybe I enjoyed the imagery in his songs.
My first concert was Mellencamp at the Civic Arena on Thanksgiving Night 1985. That's pretty much a perfect night for an 11-year-old country boy. (I just did some digging, hoping to find a bootleg from that night. No luck. I did find a couple of other shows from that tour, but I want the Pittsburgh concert. Might listen to the other ones anyway.)
A fucking great one as well. This whole thread reminds me of one time in college when a group of guys that I'm still friends with was loading up for a drive from Tampa to Tallahassee. I put in Springsteen's greatest hits, with the caveat, "I don't know if you guys will like this..." Pretty sure we all sang a lot of the words.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 9:07 pm
by sancarlos
bapo! wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 8:28 pm
Mellencamp was one of my first favorite singers/musicians/bands. After a brief fling with Styx, Mellencamp and Duran Duran shared top billing for a few years. I grew up surrounded by farms, so maybe I enjoyed the imagery in his songs.
My first concert was Mellencamp at the Civic Arena on Thanksgiving Night 1985. That's pretty much a perfect night for an 11-year-old country boy. (I just did some digging, hoping to find a bootleg from that night. No luck. I did find a couple of other shows from that tour, but I want the Pittsburgh concert. Might listen to the other ones anyway.)
Good to see you, bapo! !
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:46 am
by rass
(he cheats by dropping "chili" a couple of times, which...?)
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:32 am
by Reaper
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:17 pm
Not a fan of his cover of Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World.
Though his cover of Van Morrison's Wild Night was really good IMHO, and the video with Me'Shell Ndegeocello may be the first time I ever saw a woman of color play the guitar.
Re: John Mellencamp appreciation thread
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:30 am
by mister d
bapo! wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 8:28 pmI grew up surrounded by farms, so maybe I enjoyed the imagery in his songs.
I think I get this. How I felt when Organized Konfusion or Grand Puba mentioned Poughkeepsie in a song, you felt when Mellencamp mentioned "wheat".
