“Jack and Diane, I smashed a radio playing that song once,”
I heard that if you call Johnny Cougar “Johnny Cougar”, he flips out. I hope to test that theory some day.
If you hated his 80s stuff and feel like making your ears bleed, check out some of his early 90s stuff. I honestly think his trash and Bruce Springsteen’s abject toxic waste are Soviet sonic weapons of some sort.
Funny you should say that about John Mellencamp in the early 90s. “Key West Intermezzo” is probably the one song of his that I really like to the point where I never get tired of it. If you check out the video you can see a young Matthew McConaghey before anyone heard of him.
Oh, relief to hear someone else feels that way. I loved his first two somewhat introspective albums, "Asbury Park" and "E Street Shuffle." I went to see him several times in a high school auditorium and in tiny clubs at the Jersey shore hardly bigger than my living room, when he had David Sancious on the grand piano. But from the inception of "Born to Run" and the slamming beat and the six speakers each the size of sports cars stacked up beside the stage, I was done.
And of course, he subsequently started spewing his leftwing drool all over the place.
Still later, he revealed he suffers from depression. Duh! One listen to "Nebraska" made that clear.