Top 5 John Cougar Mellencamp Songs

[low-key]

5. Wild Night
4. I need a Lover
3. Small Town
2. Hurts so Good
1. Cherry Bomb

 

[asta]

Not ranked but favorites:

Crumblin' Down
Lonely Ol' Night
Cherry Bomb
Small Town
Authority Song

 

[Disneylover99]

Ain't Even Done With the Night
Crumblin' Down
I Need a Lover
Rain on the Scarecrow
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

 

[Gorechick]

Hurts so Good
Jack and Diane
Pink Houses
Crumblin Down
Wild Nights

Not in any particular order.

 

[pat fan]

LOVE Mellencamp!

Aint Even Done With The Night
Aint That America
Your Life Is Now
I Need A Lover
Hand To Hold On To

Hard to pick 5. The theme music to my life....

 

[robinb]

There are more than 5 John Cougar Mellencamp songs?

I can only think of 3 and that's eve after reading everyone else's top five!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Thundering Hearts
I Need A Lover
Hurts So Good
Jack and Dianne
Rain On The Scarecrow

 

[#1hoosierfan]

LOVE Mellencamp.

I got to see him in concert at Indiana University when I was at college there.

1) Small Town
2) Jack and Diane
3) Authority Song
4) Pink Houses
5) Hurt so Good

 

[Geoff_M]

1) Minutes to Memories
2) Pink Houses
3) Check It Out
4) Ain't Even Done With the Night
5) Jack And Diane

 

[ziravan]

1. Saw him in Houston in 1986. There were two huge speakers on either side of the stage. He kept jumping up on one for a few minutes, then jumping down, running across stage and jumping up on the other.

During "Hurts so Good", as he was running back and forth, he tripped and fell flat on his face. Band just kept playing refrain for a few minutes... He stumbled to his feet, said "That didn't hurt so good, I'm going to get high, be back in a few."

Ten minutes later, he came back out, started "Hurts so Good" from the beginning and finished the show.

2. San Francisco 1989. Intermission waiting in 10 deep line for urinal. I'm next up. Girl taps my shoulder (in the men's room), says, "I really gotta go, can I cut?" It's a urinal. I say, "Sure".

She drops her drawers to her ankles, backs up to the urinal and goes. That'll make a permanent impression on a 19 yr old boy...

3. 2010, The Woodlands, TX: John Mellencamp and John Fogerty. Came to see the former. He sang and sounded tired. But. Fogerty put on a helluva show. I was very impressed.

Fogerty and Mellencamp sang "Little Pink Houses" together.

Five faves

Rain on Scarecrow
Authority Song
Ain't even done with the night
Crumblin' Down
Little pink houses.

 

[BigAlsGal]

1)pink houses
2)cherry bomb
3)Jack and Diane
4)check it out
5)ain't even done with the night

 

[bcla]

3. 2010, The Woodlands, TX: John Mellencamp and John Fogerty. Came to see the former. He sang and sounded tired. But. Fogerty put on a helluva show. I was very impressed.

Fogerty and Mellencamp sang "Little Pink Houses" together.

Was this before or after he had started singing old CCR songs again? I heard he held quite the grudge against Saul Zaentz. Thought he got cheated by Zaentz and refused to sing CCR songs until Zaentz sold Fantasy Records.

He's from around where I grew up. CCR had a famous rehearsal space in Berkeley that burned down a few years ago.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BERKELEY-Fire-destroys-warehouse-used-by-2658435.php

Oh - as for the original topic, I rather like Our Country. Of course that requires hearing the entire song and not just the parts that Chevy picked up for their commercials. And nobody else mentioned R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.?

 

[Tidoublegrr]

Human Wheels
Rain on the Scarecrow
Minutes to Memories
Paper in Fire
Jack and Diane

 

[ziravan]

Was this before or after he had started singing old CCR songs again? I heard he held quite the grudge against Saul Zaentz. Thought he got cheated by Zaentz and refused to sing CCR songs until Zaentz sold Fantasy Records.

He's from around where I grew up. CCR had a famous rehearsal space in Berkeley that burned down a few years ago.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BERKELEY-Fire-destroys-warehouse-used-by-2658435.php

Oh - as for the original topic, I rather like Our Country. Of course that requires hearing the entire song and not just the parts that Chevy picked up for their commercials. And nobody else mentioned R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.?

He was singing CCR songs. Like I said, I didn't even go to see him. But while Mellencamp fizzled, Fogarty blew me away.