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John Mellencamp - Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits Audio CD

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John Mellencamp Band: John Mellencamp
Title: Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits
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Release Date: 2004-10-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Walk Tall 2: Pink Houses 3: Lonely Ol' Night 4: Jackie Brown 5: Rain on the Scarecrow 6: Love and Happiness 7: Check It Out 8: Peaceful World 9: Paper in Fire 10: Your Life Is Now 11: Human Wheels 12: When Jesus Left Birmingham 13: Authority Song 14: What If I Came Looking 15: Crumblin' Down 16: Small Town 17: R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. 18: Cherry Bomb 19: Pop Singer 20: Thank You 21: Martha Say 22: Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) 23: Hand to Hold on To 24: I Need a Lover 25: Hurts So Good 26: Get a Leg Up 27: Wild Night 28: Dance Naked 29: Teardrops Will Fall 30: Ain't Even Done With the Night 31: Just Another Day 32: Jack & Diane 33: Rumble Seat 34: I'm Not Running Anymore 35: Again Tonight 36: This Time 37: Now More Than Ever 38: Crumblin' Down [DVD][*] 39: R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. [DVD][*] 40: Rain on the Scarecrow [DVD][*] 41: Check It Out [DVD][Live][*] 42: Key West Intermezzo (I Saw Your First) [DVD][*]

Great American artist
He is a talented songwriter, and this is a comprehensive collection of his work. I grew up in the rural midwest, so I relate to the values and perspective of John Mellencamp's work. I own Scarecrow and Lonesome Jubilee, and bought this to round out the John Mellencamp selections loaded on my iPod.


John Mellencamp Word's And Music
He's one of the best song writers of our time, and this proves it!! Even if you aren't a rabid fan, you'll know and enjoy these songs. A great collection.


K.I.C.K.'s in the A.S.S.
D. Covering John Mellencamp's career from the late 1970s through the mid-2000s and including a couple of new songs to sweeten it for fans who have all his albums, the double C. collection WORDS & MUSIC: JOHN MELLENCAMP'S GREATEST HITS has every well-known song by the artist. If there is an essential Mellencamp song missing, none of the previous reviews here mentions it and I don't remember it.

Maybe Mellencamp's regular guy image drew comparisons with Bruce Springsteen, but his rhythmic rock and roll makes him America's answer to the Rolling Stones. In the notes on one of his albums, Mellencamp thanks "the Rolling Stones for never taking the living room off the turntable. "

With fewer radio stations playing rock and roll, WORDS & MUSIC is a visit with an old friend, albeit one who rocks the house. There was a time when "Pink Houses" was so overplayed I changed the station when it came on. Hearing that and the many other Mellencamp smashes on WORDS & MUSIC, I can appreciate the man's talent all over again.

Another version of WORDS & MUSIC includes a D. V. D. of several John Mellencamp music videos. I settled for the non-D. V. D. version as I had bought C. D. -with-bonus-D. V. D. packages by a couple other artists only to realize I never watched the D. V. D. a second time.

WORDS & MUSIC programs its selections rather than using the typical "best of" method of presenting the songs in chronological order. I like this mix approach better. Ironically, the C. D. case seems slapped together with a handful of pictures all from the same photo session. I would prefer photos reflecting the 25-odd years its music represents.

As opposed to an anthology, WORDS & MUSIC offers only songs from John Mellencamp's hit-making heyday. Absent is music from his mid-to-late 1970s titles such as THE KID INSIDE and CHESTNUT STREET INCIDENT. And as Mellencamp continues to release new work, there may be still more greatest hits.

Of course, a hit for John Mellencamp seems unlikely, but only because pop music stations don't play his new songs anymore. Heck, they aren't playing new Rolling Stones records, either. Mellencamp's recent song for an advertising campaign was probably the closest thing to a hit he will have. That's the public's loss.

Pick up WORDS & MUSIC. .


One of the greatest artist of our time.
I have listened to this CD several times, and I have enjoyed it very much. John Mellencamp is a great singer, and has made some of the best songs of the past 25 years.


Cougar Camp at its best
So, this is the second or third time I have bought this cd. When I get a really good cd, I always pass it on. I love it! The only thing that could have been better would be including the acoustic verison of "Small Town"! .


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