Uh-Huh

John Mellencamp, John Cougar Mellencamp

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1983
• 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.com Sales Rank: #112,162 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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

Customer Reviews

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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

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 Mellencamp's best by far, September 24, 2002

By	John Doc Holliday (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews

"Uh-Huh" was one of the few true rock albums of the early 80s. Aside from the Rolling Stones' "Undercover," this album showed that rock was more than Casio keyboards and synthesized drums. We get a dose of high-octane rock and roll that makes this album a true treasure.

At a time when Michael Jackson's "Beat It," The Culture Club, and acts of that ilk saturated the airwaves ad nauseum, Mellencamp offered a breath of fresh air with "Uh-Huh." It still holds up almost 20 years later.

A lot of Mellencamp's later material hasn't held up as well as "Uh-Huh," though he is still one of America's greatest rock assets.

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