JOHN MELLENCAMP レコード& CD

Review: John Mellencamp's 1985 album Scarecrow gets a fearsome remixing, remastering and reissuing. It's the LP responsible for such hits as 'Rock In The USA', 'Small Town' and 'Lonely Ol' Night', and was widely plugged as one of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. With Mellencamp crooning away in a lamentatory fashion, he mourns the death of the American dream in the face of corporate greed, harkening back to a time hardly any of us new music listeners now know; when country and rock music weren't just consumable slices of entertainment.