Nearly 60 and still crack up laughing remembering my young brother walking around singing.....I need a lovely pork chops and gravy still funny as

My daughter was a baby when "Hurts So Good" came out. Every time it came on, I would sing the chorus to her, and she would just laugh laugh. She was just a few months old. We kind of grew up together listening to John. Now I'm 59, and she's 41. My Christmas present from her this year is that she will be taking me to see him on April 10th in Little Rock. What a full circle moment that will be when he sings that song. 😢😊

@TEM14411

5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤

Never understood this song at 16, I sure do at 57.....👍🤣🤣🤣

@fuckit1967

2 ай бұрын

haha,im 57 too,know exactly what you mean,John wasnt doing his best James Dean here,he was doing his best Mick Jagger thou

John Mellencamp is one cool dude. I don't think there's a person out there that doesn't like him as a person or has anything bad to say about him. He emits an aura of positive energy all around him and he really looks like he's having a real good time when he plays.

@commentatron

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, I remember that quote from his agent back in, what was it, 1978?

@Pyaaang

Жыл бұрын

I especially like his historic fondness for the proletariat and his plight, which has kinda devolved into a thin liberal signal, but still.

@therussiandragon616

Жыл бұрын

As he says, only the women in and out of his life would beg to differ.

@angru5oklok

Жыл бұрын

He's real!

@markomarjanovic7643

8 ай бұрын

John Cougar is one cool dude. John Mellancamp is pretty lame.

I wish things hadn't changed so much in America,this was back when people weren't so consumed with every little thing that each other believed and just had a great time.

This is what I love about John, and Springsteen. Both writing amazing songs for over forty years

@LisaGemini

2 жыл бұрын

Funny thing, they just did a new song together! AWESOME dudes.

@chadwickroyal2133

10 ай бұрын

Except Springsteen is a commie lib, but yeah John is great.

Just a normal kid from Indiana, with his friend's!!! It sounds like Bob Seger, a normal kid from Michigan, with his friend's!!! Got to love them.. Great artist's, and storyteller's.... From the Motor City, where we know music!!!!! 🎶🎶.. 👍👍👍.....

John’s choice of attire is intriguing.

Tenía 17 años cuando escuche esta melodía. Que hermosos recuerdos vienen a mi mente , tan sana que era la vivencia en aquellos tiempos. Saludos desde Tomé Chile 🇨🇱

I saw John in Oshawa, Ontario in 2012. Great show! It's hard to believe that was a decade ago.

Great song! Great message!

14 in 1978 and loved listening to the awesome music.

I can listen to this song over and over again!

That guitar solo is THE absolute hook!

The sound guy crushed it, super balanced

@Emophiliac2

Жыл бұрын

Easy to do when you're in a recording stdio.

@simonaldridge4099

Жыл бұрын

Very true. Super crisp and dialed in. Chef's kiss 🤌

@metrichotrods1763

11 ай бұрын

It's mimed

Definetly my all time john cougar song!🤟😎👍

He's so young here! Love watching him through the years.. His music is still great, my favorite is Fruit Trader..

Wow...........1978. I thought he did not debut until around 1985. Where have I been?

@michaelwallbrown3726

4 ай бұрын

asleep or on another planet

By far JCM'S best song, brilliant.

@juliehager1397

3 жыл бұрын

He wrote it. I love his rendition better than Pat Benatar

@NemesisEn4cer

2 жыл бұрын

Amen

@dennispicone6801

2 жыл бұрын

Only bettered by the extended version of the same song. 😁👍🍺

He still can sing in 2018. He is the same as back then, just aged like fine wine. XoJC

@wandahunter7620

6 жыл бұрын

ellen rose oh yes so right on!

@jonnyweiss2292

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Ellen - I agree! Drinking fine wine 🍷 now. Jonny Weiss “Burning Man.” 🔥 🎶

@mdmac5139

2 жыл бұрын

thats because the video is from..... 1978 !! 😁 😁 😁

The keyboard player eventually became one of America's Most Wanted.

Love this song 😍

I love this! Baby John! 🎵💙

Man, John looks like he's 12.

@Mark-sd7fc

5 жыл бұрын

pcnotpc looks like John Bon Jovi

@joeramsey6211

4 жыл бұрын

@Clifford Kilkenny I can find that nowhere. I see his sons are in trouble but no himself.

@cece3194

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I didn't know he started out trying to be "in." He's better in jeans and leather!

@bigtoemojo8150

3 жыл бұрын

29 or 28 back then, he was born in 51

@jrock2264

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigtoemojo8150 Nope. Says broadcast 1980. He was about 21.

They all look so young! Nice key change at the end of this song.

Melloncamp will show ya cool 👍

First time I heard this song he opened for Kiss in Omaha in September 1979. 30 feet from the stage.

@wordup897

3 ай бұрын

Mellencamp and Kiss. Weird combo.

Without doubt the best Cougar song ever , I swear

@pgdarling301

4 жыл бұрын

I discovered it thru SiriusXM radio 😍

@Trey-jl9ru

11 ай бұрын

Wait till you find out it's a cover🙈

Wow. How young he is there. Never seen that one before.

@wandahunter7620

6 жыл бұрын

Paula Miller baby or not love them than and now!

@brandonbehlke8998

5 жыл бұрын

Paula Miller 28

@sheliafrench1276

5 жыл бұрын

Paula Miller right I was thinking the same thing, baby he was hottttttttt

@susanatkins8947

5 жыл бұрын

I’m thinking baby boy! But I will go with boy! Lol

@Mark-sd7fc

5 жыл бұрын

Paula Miller if you think he looks young here look up the video on ain’t even done with the night !!!

Aside from the majesty of the guitar riffs (especially in the longer version), which I just got done jamming to on electric guitar for an hour or so, that's a very interesting and unique drum ending.

@MegaJimBrewer

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah no.

John is so cool without even knowing it. Legend

@commentatron

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, he knows! That kind of cool comes only with many hours of practice in front of a mirror.

Not only catchy, but the lyrics although simple are actually good, this suits his voice perfectly. I forgot about this song, but who wouldn't like it? "Because the Night", a much better beguiling song was popular at the same time.

Late 70's? say no more

Just a baby. I always found the drums at the very end fascinating.

Were we ever that young

Great Rock N' Roller and an awesome song.

I.loved this song 🎵, the 1st time I heard it and after all these years, I'm still listening 🎶 to it,some music 🎶 🎵 never goes out of style 🎉🎉

I m amazed that the keyboard player, (or a roadie, or a bandmate) never took steps to adjust the placement of his instrument to alleviate the apparantly brutal posture he's adopted, it aggravated my sciatic nerve just to watch. I've always liked JCM

@jenniferv

29 күн бұрын

Who took the guy’s stool?😂

I love this song so much

My man! Putting out hits for year's

I love this one and video as well as tune and kicks great.!!!!!!!!!!!!!.❤😂🎉😂❤❤❤❤

Love his music remember good days when he was coming up in the music industry wow amazing man .❤😊

John looks so youthful; it’s a shame what cigarettes have done to him. But he can’t seem to quit, even though all his loved ones have asked him to stop. Hope he’s managed to stop smoking during this pandemic. He’s a national treasure that I would hate to see gone too soon.

@chrisirving8712

3 жыл бұрын

Cigarettes just fuckin wrecked him

@chrisirving8712

3 жыл бұрын

Sad a lot of people like that ..my brother just lost half a leg

@chrisirving8712

3 жыл бұрын

I agree I think he made bob dillon look stupid

@ynotttt

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisirving8712 ….absolutely true. His health has been greatly compromised by continued smoking. That probably hasn’t changed.

His best tune .

Thanks for posting.

One of my favorite songs ever

They are 16, and sooo talented... Awesome...

@ynotttt

Жыл бұрын

Much older than that

Excellent❤

Channelling a little Mick Jagger in his vocals.

@ClassicTVMan1981X

2 жыл бұрын

And in the lyrics, which are seemingly an influence on The Rolling Stones' 1972 hit "Happy."

John Mellencamp is one of Seymour Indiana,s finest performers !

@luxoverb

3 жыл бұрын

One of?

Love john

The difference between artists (like JCM) who rock out and give the audience 110% even when forced by networks to lip-sync and those who get an attitude and phone it in couldn't be clearer. True professionals bring the heat every chance they get, regardless of complications. The audience can tell and appreciate the difference...

That guy can sure play that guitar!!

@Boombergtastic

5 ай бұрын

Larry Crane is very underrated

Johnny Cougar

He's so cute!

History of John Mellencamp: As Johnny Cougar: 1976 - Chestnut Street Incident 1977 - The Kid Inside (not released until 1983, after the success of American Fool) As John Cougar: 1978 - A Biography (not released in the US) 1979 - John Cougar 1980 - Nothin' Matters and What If It Did 1982 - American Fool As John Cougar Mellencamp: 1983 - Uh-Huh 1985 - Scarecrow 1987 - The Lonesome Jubilee 1989 - Big Daddy As John Mellencamp: 1991 - Whenever We Wanted (and subsequent releases)

OMGOSH! That little kid in the "jacket" sounds just like John Cougar!! Kinda looks like his little brother too!! ;))

@michaelhaaf4562

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

I need a lover that won't drive me crazy! ♥️

Worked at Village Inn in West Des Moines, Iowa in 1979 from 5pm to 3am. Partied till noon and woke up at 3pm and cranked this song to get ready to do it again...

The guitar is a Gibson Marauder! Always wanted one!

@bretthuss798

Жыл бұрын

Me too!!!!!

Fav!

This is the first John Cougar song I ever heard, in the 1981 film “Private Lessons.”

1978 video in the Netherlands. Amazing how long it took to hit the radio airwaves in the midwestern USA.

Great song. Great John Cougar...

johns great and so are his 2 back up singers.

Holy fkn wow what a performance

I saw him in concert many years ago. Ive been a fan since his first album. Same thing with Neil Young.

He always had a great band

Still listening since early. 80’s

What a talent

met him,must be 5 foot 5,I am 6 foot 2. This was his 1st hit,still have the autograph,he signed hois name and wrote the title of this song. Little did I know how huge he would get. This was 1980.I did volunteer research at CHOM radio in montreal,he came by for an interview,he did a show that night. He said I should go,but I had no money.

@commentatron

3 жыл бұрын

He is definitely good - for his height ;-)

Working my way back up this later of Mellencamp. I got a few covers up. Checking out some of his hits to decide which to play.. lol Love JCM.. We're Hoosiers. What can I say. :-)

The most impressive part of this video is how good the guitar and bass sound without being plugged into an amp 0:37

@melissadavis225

5 жыл бұрын

Snake Plissken good point who cares awesome video you know he can sing

@ChuckNorrisCutsMyLaw

5 жыл бұрын

@@melissadavis225 It's a great song but I bet he cringes along with all the other artists as they watch these videos of themselves pretending to play their song.

@melissadavis225

5 жыл бұрын

Snake Plissken yes for sure it's kinda funny how far the music industry has came hope you had a good fourth thanks for replying and comment just started listening to him again he's so talented and his music is so hard to sit still and be in a awful mood when you listen to his great catchy tunes

@luxoverb

3 жыл бұрын

😎 it’s a miracle! And the way they wring acoustic piano from a Rhodes! I would have paid extra for that voice in 1980.

@cbdrunk

Жыл бұрын

the high hat is off too, watch and listen. No biggy the are milli vanilli'n it up, we all know this song live is incredible, always have and will love JCM!

iconic

Great great great

I read this song took inspiration from The Rolling Stones' 1972 hit, "Happy," in particular its chorus: "I need a love to keep me happy," which on this song became "I need a lover who won't drive me crazy..."

Good Stuff Man, 12 - 26 - 2022 !!!

So young but he had the mature voice right off the bat. 😊

love him

Rarely do I see a Gibson S-1 being used ANYWHERE, let alone in a Top 10 artist's video. Thought I was the only person who has one!

Lyrics I need a lover that won't drive me crazy (I need a lover that won't drive me crazy) I need a lover that won't drive me crazy Some girl that knows the meaning of, ah- Hey hit the highway! Well I've been walking the streets up and down Racin' through the human jungle at night I'm so confused, my mind is indifferent Hey - I'm so weak, won't somebody shut off that light? Electricity runs through the video And I watch it from this hole I call home And all them stonies are dancin' to the radio And I got the world callin' me up here, tonight on the phone Some girl who'll thrill me and then go away (I need a lover that won't drive me crazy) Some girl that knows the meaning of ah- Hey hit the highway! Well I'm not wiped out by this poolroom life I'm livin' I'm gonna quit this job, and go to school, and head back home (head back home) Now I'm not asking to be loved or be forgiven Hey - I just can't face shakin' in this bedroom One more night alone Some girl that knows the meaning of ah- Hey hit the highway! Some girl to thrill me and then go away (I need a lover that won't drive me crazy) Some girl that knows the meaning of ah- Hey hit the highway! You betcha'

John - “Amazing!” I’m a Fan. Jonny Weiss “Back to Phoenix.” 🎶

Love this man hope he got a woman love him sue!

@larrybill2661

Жыл бұрын

Hello Wanda how are you doing!!

Need to find a lady who will walk down the aisle to this one.

Fire

Jon - “Excellent!” I’m a Fan. Jonny Weiss “Back to Phoenix.” 🎶

Someone give that guy on keyboards a chair!

@tiffanywolfe6036

6 жыл бұрын

scanspeak00 Lol or a taller 🎹😅

@Classic_Rock_Station

6 жыл бұрын

and find a real drummer, while you're at it.

@Vandermin011

3 жыл бұрын

When your young, you don’t need a chair

Johnny Cougar 😎

I need a mother that won't drive me Krazy😅

@larrybill2661

Жыл бұрын

Hello Pamela how are you doing!!

John is the real life Eddie and the Cruisers.

Wow he looks so young

a greeat song by great artist, Even Pat benatar covered this one.

@Jayce_Alexander

4 жыл бұрын

@Clifford Kilkenny Didn't know that. Still don't know how that affects the quality of the song or his artistry.

Tan bella music

Yassss

What's up they do good people!

Who'd think a future legend was standing there singing. A co-worker sees him at all the Indiana ball games but she won't go get a picture with him for me.

I needed a lover who won't drive me crazy, so I bought a blow up doll. When I get tired of her, I let the air out of her!

@richardbrucemusic

2 жыл бұрын

Most of them are full of hot air anyway...

SUCH A HOTTIE!!!❤️

@73pamela78

3 жыл бұрын

@Robin Patrice I'm good. How are you??

@73pamela78

3 жыл бұрын

@Robin Patrice pamela. Nice to meet

@73pamela78

3 жыл бұрын

@Robin Patrice why thank you. I'm from cedar rapids iowa. Wr you from?

I love all your music. Makes me want to ride my motorcycle....the need for speed.lol...yes I am a woman who loves riding motorcycles...

@charleebrown7188

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's pretty much all women that love the motorcycles, for obvious reasons. That's why men get em.

never could dance. him and mick both

@mattgalbraith8274

4 жыл бұрын

@wendy pearson yes, he's always been a really good dancer, cat lover has no clue on dancing. I've seen him full splits and perfect moves and timing at 45-55 years of age in live performances too. You can see it from right back then, and through various video clips, like moonwalk in "Crumblin Down" for example etc