bigjim25

This is the track order!

DISC 1: 1. Walk Tall 2. Pink Houses 3. Lonely Ol' Night 4. Jackie Brown 5. Rain on the Scarecrow 6. Love and Happiness 7. Check It Out 8. Peaceful World 9. Paper In Fire 10. Your Life Is Now 11. Human Wheels 12. When Jesus Left Birmingham 13. Authority Song 14. What If I Came Knocking 15. Crumblin' Down 16. Small Town 17. R.O.C.K. In The USA 18. Cherry Bomb 19. Pop Singer DISC 2: 1. Thank You 2. Martha Say 3. Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) 4. Jack & Diane 5. I Need A Lover 6. Hurts So Good 7. Get A Leg Up 8. Wild Night 9. Dance Naked 10. Teardrops Will Fall 11. Ain't Even Done With The Night 12. Just Another Day 13. Hand To Hold On To 14. Rumble Seat 15. I'm Not Running Anymore 16. Again Tonight 17. This Time 18. Now More Than Ever

2004 WORDS & MUSIC: GREATEST HITS 1983 UH-HUH 1985 SCARECROW 1989 BIG DADDY 1985 SCARECROW 1991 WHENEVER WE WANTED 1987 THE LONESOME JUBILEE 2001 CUTTIN' HEADS 1987 THE LONESOME JUBILEE 1996 MR. HAPPY GO LUCKY 1993 HUMAN WHEELS 1993 HUMAN WHEELS 1983 UH-HUH 1993 HUMAN WHEELS 1983 UH-HUH 1985 SCARECROW 1985 SCARECROW 1987 THE LONESOME JUBILEE 1989 BIG DADDY 2004 WORDS & MUSIC: GREATEST HITS 1989 BIG DADDY 1996 MR. HAPPY GO LUCKY 1982 AMERICAN FOOL 1979 JOHN COUGAR 1982 AMERICAN FOOL 1991 WHENEVER WE WANTED 1994 DANCE NAKED 1994 DANCE NAKED 2003 TROUBLE NO MORE 1980 NOTHIN' MATTERS AND WHAT IF IT DID 1998 JOHN MELLENCAMP 1982 AMERICAN FOOL 1985 SCARECROW 1998 JOHN MELLENCAMP 1991 WHENEVER WE WANTED 1980 NOTHIN' MATTERS AND WHAT IF IT DID 1991 WHENEVER WE WANTED

Now the best-known, best-loved of that music is available for the first time in the most expansive retrospective of his career, the two-CD WORDS & MUSIC: JOHN MELLENCAMP'S GREATEST HITS (Island/UMe), released October 19, 2004. The singer-songwriter-producer's only previous "best of" album was The Best That I Could Do (1978 -- 1988), a single-disc retrospective issued seven years ago.
Bringing together rock, folk, country, blues and R&B, Mellencamp has sold more than 40 million albums and received 11 Grammy nominations.
Spanning 25 years, 1979 to 2004, WORDS & MUSIC: JOHN MELLENCAMP'S GREATEST HITS celebrates the most popular and important roots rocker of his generation, including the upcoming single "Walk Tall" and "Thank You," -- two new songs -- both produced by Mellencamp and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. WORDS & MUSIC will also be featuring 37 digitally remastered selections and boasts all 22 Top 40 pop hits of his career to date, with 10 Top 10 hits, culled from 14 albums. The package also adds liner notes by Rolling Stone founder/publisher Jann Wenner, extensive track information and photographs.

Mellencamp, the recipient of the 2003 Woody Guthrie Award recipient and co-founder of Farm Aid (with Willie Nelson and Neil Young) still lives and records outside Bloomington, Indiana, near where he grew up, and remains an artist from and of the American heartland.

Brain Stew

Wow this CD reminds me of when a smoke was a smoke and groovin' was groovin'.

dolphinboy

Human Wheels was under-rated from what I remember. It's probably my favorite Mellencamp cd from top to bottom (Scarecrow #2 IMO). I have most everything on this cd already, but I'll probably pick it up for the remastered older songs. The guy is a great song writer and he did a great job with the hot model wife from the Whenever We Wanted-era videos.

Michael Corvin

still no 'Play Guitar?' tsk. tsk.

Good to see "scarecrow" on here though.

DrRingDing

goldarnit! where's "Rave On" from the Cocktail soundtrack?! i realize it's a cover, but so is "Wild Night"!
-di doctor-

bigjim25

Island Records just announced a 2CD Limited Special Edition w/ Bonus DVD for John Mellencamp Words and Music: Greatest Hits also due on 10/19.

DRG

Looks like a good assortment of his stuff, although I'm not as familiar with the more recent work. Hard to believe he's survived 4 different stage names (Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, John Cougar Mellencamp, John Mellencamp).

shanester

Too bad they didn't include a DVD of all his videos as well. That would have made it a perfect set but I'll still buy it anyway.

JM is one of my all time favourite artists. His songwriting is up there with people like Dylan,Springsteen and Billy Joel

"They say life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone" (from Jack & Diane 1982)

johnbook

Very nice collection here looks like i'll be selling my "the best that i could do" 1978 - 1988 cd on half.com now that there sticking around and upgrade to this cd.

Osiris

I agree this videos would have topped it off.

bigjim25

Bonus DVD has 5 videos: (It's limited so be sure you get the right one if you want this)
1.Crumblin' Down
2.R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.
3.Rain On The Scarecrow
4.Check It Out
5.Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)

nightmaster

I'll be picking this one up. One helluva nice set and a good price as well.