Uh Huh

John Mellencamp | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Island / Mercury
• ASIN: B000001F4R
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,533 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Crumblin' Down

2. Pink Houses

3. Authority Song

4. Warmer Place To Sleep

5. Jackie O

6. Play Guitar

7. Serious Business

8. Lovin' Mother Fo Ya

9. Golden Gates

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording

"Pink Houses" is the state-of-our-union anthem that John Mellencamp likes to boast about, but the real class-awareness beef of 1983's Uh-Huh is in "Authority Song" ("Call up my preacher... / He said, 'You don't need no strength, you need to grow up, son'")--not to mention the kidding cynicism of "Crumblin' Down" and the Mellencamp-John Prine collaboration "Jackie O." With his Stonesy band crackling behind him, the newly minted superstar also shows that he gets the joke of his "serious business" on "Play Guitar," which might have been the album's fourth hit single if not for its admonition to "forget all about that macho shit." --Rickey Wright

Product Description

Audio CD (October 25, 1990) Number of Discs: 1 Label: Island / Mercury ASIN: B000001F4R Also Available in: Audio Cassette Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews) Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #81,265 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This CD makes me want to salute America and drink a cool one, March 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Uh Huh (Audio CD)

Pink Houses very well could be the best damn song about modern America that I've ever heard. I heard that the Authority Song was written after Cougar saw the movie Cool Hand Luke. I don't know if that's true or not but it correlates with the movie perfectly. Johnny Cougar blows the doors off any of this new rock and roll. I'll put in his CD's at all our sorry high school parties and we'll get potheads, hippies, drunks, cowboys, and dorks all singing along. Crumblin down has one of my favorite Mellencamp lines: "Some people just ain't now damn good, you can't love em', you can't trust em'."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Quintessential Mellencamp album, December 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Uh Huh (Audio CD)

This is the best album Mellencamp ever made and I ought to know - I own them all.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Rock, Cougar-Style, July 7, 2000

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roscoe (Cape Town, SA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uh Huh (Audio CD)

I've been building up my John Mellencamp collection for a while now, starting many years ago with this album. Uh-huh is still the most enjoyable one in the catalogue. All the tracks rock along with ease and power.

For a new John (Cougar) Mellencamp listener, I'd recommend this CD as one of the first listens. Musically it is as simple as they come, yet is a solid rocking album.

I think the most important ingredient in all of his work is FUN. People may slate the simplicity of some of his work, moan about the lyrical content, whatever, but one thing that shines through on all his releases is the fact that he goes into the studio with his band to have fun and make Cool Music!

Best tracks: Authority Song, Play Guitar (actually inspired me to take up Drums - which I did!), Serious Business, Crumblin' Down. ALL of them... It scores full marks on my listen-o-meter!

Go forward 15 years and check out the self titled John Mellencamp. Well worth it.