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The Best That I Could Do 1978-1988

by John Mellencamp

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Album review

The Best That I Could Do collects the singles that led John Mellencamp into the radio/jukebox pantheon he celebrated in "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." and "Cherry Bomb." While albums such as American Fool, Uh Huh, and Scarecrow held Top 10 spots for months, their spinoff hits made this Hoosier disciple of Jagger, J.B., and Iggy into something like a Reagan-era John Fogerty: not only were "Pink Houses," "Paper in Fire," and "Crumblin' Down" wise (and wiseacre) dispatches from an America where it wasn't always morning, they could fill a dance floor and get you pounding the dashboard on the way home. --Rickey Wright


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About the artist

John Mellencamp (born 7 October 1951 in Seymour, Indiana) is an American singer and songwriter, known for a long and successful recording and performing career highlighted by a series of 1980s hits, including "Jack and Diane", and by his role in the Farm Aid charity event. Mellencamp lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and is married to former superm...

Track list

  1. I Need a Lover
  2. Ain't Even Done with the Night
  3. Hurts So Good
  4. Jack and Diane
  5. Crumblin' Down
  6. Pink Houses
  7. Authority Song
  8. Lonely Ol' Night
  9. Small Town
  10. R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.
  11. Paper in Fire
  12. Cherry Bomb
  13. Check It Out
  14. Without Expression - John Mellencamp, Reid, Terry