after turning 50 years old, have comprehensively been greater critical successes than the ones he released prior. For instance, his last nine studio albums, beginning with 2002’s The Rising and ending with 2020’s Letter to You, have all scored within the top 3 of the Billboard 200, with six of them actually topping the list.Īlso pretty amazing is that Wasted Days, which was released as a standalone single on 29 September 2021, is actually the first collaboration between these two legendary artists. The Boss, as Springsteen is often called, is a couple years John Mellencamp’s senior, and accordingly his discography is a few years older. And whereas throughout the years he has dropped fewer albums, as noted earlier Springsteen may be, all things considered, more famous. One reason for that, somewhat oddly considering that the Boss is 72 years old as of the writing of this post, is that albums he has put in the 21 st century, i.e. His featured artist on “Wasted Days”, Bruce Springsteen, is considered even more of a classic American musician and as such one whose music we have worked on quite a few times in the past. The said project not only topped the Billboard 200 but has been certified quintuple-platinum by the RIAA, which is a pretty amazing feat for an album that came out back then. In fact throughout that decade, four of the seven albums John dropped proved to be RIAA multi-platinum successes, thus making the 1980s Mellencamp’s heyday.Īnd whereas he hasn’t been getting the same type of commercial and critical love in the 21 st century, it should be noted that his last studio album to date, 2018’s Other People’s Stuff, did peak at number 7 on the Billboard 200 and reached the summit of Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Folk Albums listings. This is because he not only got around to dropping seven albums but also the most successful of the over 20 studio projects he’s dropped to date, that being 1982’s American Fool. John Cougar Mellencamp is a singer from Indiana who traces his music career back to the mid-1970s. The 1980s were kinder though to him.
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Springsteen sings on “Did You Say Such a Thing” and “Wasted Days” but not on “A Life Full of Rain.John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen and “Wasted Days”
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“Did You Say Such a Thing” is a lean rock song reminiscent of past Mellencamp hits such as “Paper in Fire” and “Crumblin’ Down.” “A Life Full of Rain” is as lyrically bleak as “Wasted Days” though it’s richer, musically, and Mellencamp’s lines are delivered in a more conversational, almost theatrical way. “Wasted Days,” the album’s uncompromisingly dark first single, was released in September. He came to Indiana, he stayed at the house. And then we became really good friends, and it just kind of happened. And all of a sudden he was like my big brother, and he treated me like I was his sibling, and I treated him with respect. But we did a rainforest (benefit) for Sting and we played together. We met each other years ago, but we just knew each other enough to say hi. “And Bruce and I have known each other for years. “For my entire career I was always like the poor man’s Bruce Springsteen,” said Mellencamp in a recent interview with Forbes. The three collaborations with Bruce Springsteen - “A Life Full of Rain,” “Did You Say Such a Thing” and “Wasted Days” - are embedded below. 21, but the tracks appeared on YouTube at midnight Jan. The official day of release for John Mellencamp’s new album, “Strictly a One-Eyed Jack,” is Jan. The cover of John Mellencamp’s album, “Strictly a One-Eyed Jack.”
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