What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

JOHN MELLENCAMP "john mellencamp" cd, 1997.

theres an old saying here..."you can take the boy out of the country but you cant take the country out of the boy"....same goes for john..."you can take the Mellencamp out of the cougar but you cant take the Cougar out of Mellencamp"...
he certainly lost his way here on this one...no fires in his belly whatsoever, just a very mediocre collection of songs from JM...he blamed his PR guys for not promoting the album properly, but its pretty hard to promote something this lame and get sales...this is the worst selling album of his career, and my score will reflect that at the end of this...
sounds like he doesnt know whether to be edgy john or pop john here and this ends up being a big mish-mash of nothing by his standards, even the tracks that get 'like' scores from me only barely make the grade except "when the world began" and "im not running anymore" which genuinely arent too bad IMO...the rest, well forget them and stick to "american fool", "scarecrow" a best of set or the sun sessions one he did a couple of years ago...which is a big shame as this guy does know how to write great songs when he puts his mind to it!
sorry for the lack of available links here, and a shame theres not one for my favourite track!
I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: fruit trader
best track: when the world began

tracks:

1. fruit trader *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMLJPqzwdm8 audio
2. your life is now *
3. positively crazy **
4. im not running anymore **
5. it all comes true **
6. eden burning **
7. when the world began **
8. miss missy **
9. chance meeting at the tarantula *
10.break me off some *
11.summer of love **
12.days of farewell *

3s=0
2s=7
1s=5

rating: 1.6 or 5/10