Yet as socially conscious later efforts like 2014’s Plain Spoken show, he’s remained resolute in his fight for the little guy. Fortunately their distorted-guitar cover version of 'The House of the Rising Sun' by The Animals reached the Top 10 on the U.S. They started releasing singles in 1969, in the hope of getting some success. 439 on Rolling Stone magazines list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1984 and No. It was released on the 1983 album Uh-Huh on Riva Records. Since his ’80s commercial peak, Mellencamp has remained highly prolific both as a musical and visual artist, expanding his roots-rock aesthetic through collaborations with bass queen Meshell Ndegeocello, rapper Chuck D, and producer T Bone Burnett. Frijid Pink biography FRIJID PINK was a Detroit-based, blues rock band formed in 1967. Pink Houses' is a song written and performed by John Cougar Mellencamp. (The latter song has a long history of being misappropriated by politicians who mistake its weary “ain’t that America” chorus as a patriotic campaign jingle.) For 1987’s Cajun-spiced The Lonesome Jubilee, he simply put the Mellencamp name on the cover, signalling his complete transition from rock ‘n’ roll bad boy to down-home Americana icon (an image reinforced by his cofounding role in the Farm Aid charity-concert series).

That focus would only turn sharper as he rebranded himself John Cougar Mellencamp for 1983’s Uh-Huh and 1985’s Scarecrow, where acoustic anthems like “Small Town” and “Pink Houses” celebrated Rust Belt resilience while quietly raging at the socioeconomic inequalities that necessitate it. John Cougar Mellencamp originally released Pink Houses written by John Mellencamp and John Cougar Mellencamp released it on the album Uh - Huh in 1983. The Household Objects idea began in 1969, when Floyd began performing a new composition, Work, that involved sawing wood and boiling kettles on stage. But a tiny name tweak to the slightly more sophisticated John Cougar heralded his chart-topping breakthrough with 1982’s American Fool, whose eternal teen-romance serenade “Jack and Diane” recast him as a keen observer of small-town American life. Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns N Roses Highway to Hell/Back in Black - AC/DC Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf Locked Out of Heaven/Treasure/Runaway Baby/Just the Way You Are - Bruno Mars (medley) S.O.B. Initially dropping his Germanic surname for the more all-American stage handle of Johnny Cougar, the Seymour, Indiana native (born in 1951) emerged in the late ‘70s as a leather-clad rock ‘n’ roll rebel for the New Wave age, enjoying his first success with 1978’s ersatz-Springsteen sing-along “I Need a Lover”. The evolution of heartland rocker John Mellencamp can be easily charted through the various monikers he’s put on his album covers.

Pink houses album cover