It's official

[EL the Famous]

I'm old!!!!

 

Me too and I didn't win the NJ home Bon Jovi grew up in OR the opportunity to have Anthrax come and tear up my house either.

[Analogman]

this one always takes me to another place

 

I wonder if he "invented" the idea of using real people and/or street scenes in videos?

[Sir Stewart]

She calls me 'baby'...she calls everybody 'baby'....

[Analogman]

The woman in that video is his second wife.

[LouieB]

Wow, it is slow around here if all we have to talk about is John Cougar Mellencamp....

 

LouieB

[Analogman]

He is actually quite a politcal dude these days.

[Sir Stewart]

Tom Petty's best video is Free Fallin, courtesy of the top the skater chick is wearing, and the look on her face when she's impressed by the skater dude's moves.

[Analogman]

I hate that song and that album. My fav Tom Petty video is

 

this one

[LouieB]

He is actually quite a politcal dude these days.

John Cougar?? He was one of the early signers on to Farm Aid.....

 

By the way even though the Bottle Rockets dis him in the song Indianapolis, they apparently once played that song with him, so he must still dig them.

 

LouieB

[anodyne]

Lonesome Jubilee is a great album but Brian Henneman had it right though:

Sitting in this bar is getting more than I can stand

If I could catch a ride I really think I'd ditch this van

Who knows what this repair will cost, scared to spend a dime

I'll puke if that jukebox plays John Cougar one more time

 

 

when drag the river covered indianapolis, they made it don henley. both are spot on.

[Analogman]

John Cougar?? He was one of the early signers on to Farm Aid.....

 

By the way even though the Bottle Rockets dis him in the song Indianapolis, they apparently once played that song with him, so he must still dig them.

 

LouieB

He received threats from the Ku Klux Klan after showing a bi-racial couple in his video to the song Cherry Bomb.

His 1987 song Down And Out In Paradise was a song about the problems of common Americans. Each verse starts out, "Dear Mr. President". The last verse is particulary effective. It is from the point of view of a fourth-grader who asks "When the bombs fall down will it hurt everyone in my family?"

In 1989, John released a controversial single Pop Singer, which contains the line "Never wanted to be no pop singer/Never wanted to write no pop songs".

In an attack on the U.S. policy regarding poverty, John wrote the song Jackie Brown, which told the story of a poor family and spoke of the title character's suicide. The lyrics include the line "Who gives a damn about Jackie Brown/Just another lazy man who couldn't take what was his/one hell of a life, Jackie Brown".

His 1989 single Country Gentleman was an attack on former President Ronald Reagan as well as then current President George H.W. Bush. The chorus says, "He ain't-a gonna help no women/He ain't-a gonna help no children/He ain't-a gonna help no poor man/He just gonna help his good friends". A later verse says, "He picked our bones and threw 'em in his stew/Thank God he went back to California".

His 1991 single Love And Happiness was a vicious attack on numerous U.S. policies. Lyrics include, "If you sell arms or you run dope/You've got respect and you've got hope".

His 1991 single Get A Leg Up was banned from many stations because it contained the word goddamn as well as many graphic descriptions of sex.

In 1992, he was asked to appear on MTV Unplugged. However, MTV would not allow him to play the concert with his guitar, which had "Fuck Facism" carved into it. John got by the censors, by covering the letter c in the word fuck with a sticker that read "Censorship Is Un-American".

His 1994 album Dance Naked was not sold at Wal-Mart because they considered the cover photo to be explicit.

The song L.U.V. from his 1994 album Dance Naked was targeted for containing the word "C.S.'s", which is an abbreviation for cocksuckers.

His 1996 album Mr. Happy Go Lucky was sold with an alternate cover at several stores, because Christian groups found the original cover offensive.

The lyrics to his 2001 anti-racism song Cuttin' Heads contains the word nigger 6 times.

Columbia rejected his 2001 song Peaceful World as a single at first because they disagreed with the line "Racism lives in the U.S. today". It was eventually a single.

His 2003 anti-war song was banned by many stations for making various claims regarding the legitimacy of the 2000 Election, the policies of George W. Bush, and the reasons for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The song also contained the word goddamn.

A line from his 2004 anti-war song Walk Tall was edited from the radio version. The line was "Be careful of those that kill in Jesus's name/He don't believe in killin' at all"

He was a part of the Vote For Change Tour that tried to persuade voters to vote for John Kerry.

After dedicating a rendition of Walk Tall to "those being ignored by the current administration" at a 2006 concert, former Vice President Dan Quayle walked out of the venue.