John Mellencamp

John Couger was something of a joke. On the five albums he recorded between 1976 and
1980, he offered pleasant radio music, but nothing worth pondering once the next song
started blasting out of the car-radio speakers. Then he got serious with "Jack and Diane,"
which took a dull, poorly conveyed romance and used it as a springboard for and equally
unfocused ideology. The song was culled from American Fool, an LP that deserv... More >