The line "Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone" becomes more and more relevant as I get older.

@clairefreeman6273

7 жыл бұрын

Yes and so does "Hold on to 16 as long as you can. Changes come around real soon- make us women and men."

@valkor73

7 жыл бұрын

no kidding and it sucks everything gets old

@elinderfler9358

7 жыл бұрын

yep. true story

@John6-40

7 жыл бұрын

Never thought about the line when I was a kid or a teenager. Now I'm 36 and I'm like..."oh"

@clairefreeman6273

7 жыл бұрын

Deric Gregory just wait...it gets worse!

John Mellencamp's studio was about 4 or 5 doors down from my house when I was growing up in Belmont, Indiana. I used to watch him drive by in his Porsche and he would always wave real big when I was playing in the yard. He always inspired me. His big hits came from that studio right by my old house. World class. My siblings and cousins would see his music videos on rotation with the likes of Michael Jackson and the early MTV heavy hitters. It made everything feel so close to home. I thought, if that's possible and he's right here, I could do it too. I'm not a rockstar by any means, but I am a music producer & audio engineer now. I think John Mellencamp seeded that idea in my brain. Thanks! I'm forever grateful. I didn't realize just how cool that was when I was a kid.

@mphlohi

3 жыл бұрын

Was there a Tastee-Freez around that area back then?

@denisemartin7035

3 жыл бұрын

Great. Thanks for sharing. 😍

@usernotfound2925

3 жыл бұрын

@@denisemartin7035 no need to be sarcastic love :)

@anthonypaul1562

3 жыл бұрын

What a great story. God bless!

@dipper1685

3 жыл бұрын

Ur so lucky

"Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone". The truest lyrics ever written.

@raygreen5926

2 жыл бұрын

Very true Matt Flynn where ever you are from

@bluesteel8376

2 жыл бұрын

I always found this song strange because of those lyrics. It is an up beat song with such a depressing message.

@Ballernotfound

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@yhack55

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! This line is so PROFOUND 💕

@jameswalker3729

2 жыл бұрын

This song was epic. John Cougar really should have had a long career. What ever happened to him?

So, My name is Diane and my husband’s name is Jack. We are both Native Floridian’s. We got married in 1979 both at the age of 18. So yes, we’ve been married for 42 years. This song has been a part happen!

@frankantonio4790

Жыл бұрын

Hello Diane

@didokinney9173

Жыл бұрын

My name is Diane too, blessings to you & your family I love this song growing up ❤

@christopherwall9696

Жыл бұрын

Lake panasofkee FL resident here.congrats on your marriage!

@Questfinder1

11 ай бұрын

Did youbals get pregnant as a teen and have to have an abortion to? Hust wondering

@b-dub6865

9 ай бұрын

That’s awesome. When I was a young kid, my parents told me this was their song cuz it told their story. For the longest time, I believed it was literally written about them. Ha.

the fact that 80s music makes me feel nostalgic for that time when i wasn’t alive then is crazy

@Tom-kt8lu

4 жыл бұрын

Fauxstalgia?

@matt.9750

4 жыл бұрын

I’m eleven and this shit makes me nostalgic, idfk man

@sebapotatoboy3683

4 жыл бұрын

@@matt.9750 im about 14 and im glad that they're is a small group of young-ins in the modern age that are able to appreciate all the great things the 50's through 90's brought this world. Sometimes i wish i was born during those times

@JesusIsKing2000s

4 жыл бұрын

Panic! Leelu at least you’re listening to music like this man 🤘🏻

@BennysUnhinged

4 жыл бұрын

Probably subconscious from your parents when they had parties and drinks at Christmas time and these songs were played in the background. So your body relates them to hapiness

I was young when first heard this but now at 66 I can confirm the lyrics, life does go on long after the thrill of living is LONG gone. Whatever age you're at, if you're young, make the most of it. One day you'll open your eyes in the morning, look in the bathroom mirror, and see an old face looking back at you, and your old bones will ache.

@deserthighways4095

8 жыл бұрын

You fail to understand the song. It's not at all upbeat. May your ignorant bones ache before you get as old as me

@JP-ou6ss

8 жыл бұрын

+Venlible Well, it's upbeat...but not really at the same time. It has that nostalgic feeling. Kinda like "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen.

@deserthighways4095

8 жыл бұрын

If you die young you're lucky. Don't fight death. It's a release from the bullshit of the world.

@deserthighways4095

8 жыл бұрын

Your flesh will at first just get loose, and then gradually seem to rot and fall off, like the hairs on your head which will be replaced by a few hairs coming out your ears. And U can forget about sex or having any interest in women, especially some old crow your age (my age at present)

@deserthighways4095

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, I need to find a way to be 35 years old again.

I'm a 49 year old African American woman that loves this song ❤

@gtaocinematics

2 ай бұрын

What does your race have to do with anything. Saying you like the song is enough.

@joeJoe-pb3su

2 ай бұрын

Jessica simpson copied this song 🎵 . The original is the best 😊

@RythymBeast

2 ай бұрын

Everyone is so proud of you. Hear them all clapping?

@user-yn2yi4zk2s

2 ай бұрын

My dad was born in 1982 when this song came out

@Smithy88888

2 ай бұрын

*who

Gen X'er here. Born and raised in farm country, USA. This tune was a big hit when I was in high school. The overall message is timeless, but the imagery is a perfect snapshot of that specific era and region. The '80s were definitely not like that for every American kid by any means. But for a small town white boy in the middle of nowhere with nothing much to look forward to but banging your high school sweetheart, and joining the Army or farming or getting some dead-end factory job... yeah, this song is exactly what it felt like to be young then. Sweet and simple... but with a foreboding sense of, "You better enjoy it now, son, 'cause it ain't ever gonna get any better than this."

@mcclift9451

Ай бұрын

Gen x here as well,from Ohio Ya,you can't put it any better than that

@BretBrisker

27 күн бұрын

Im not gen x, Born in 97. My hometown of 700 people in rural ohio was stuck in the 80s/90s until the 2010s when they got their first corporate owned store. My dad was a firefighter and had a kitted out bronco 2 with lights and sirens. like the song we would go to the tasty freeze and get chilli dogs every weekend. I didnt have internet or a cellphone until 2014, we just didnt have a use for it, we came home when the street lights came on. My age may consider me gen z, but my childhood and music preference says im far from it.

@Anonymous_youtube_account

6 күн бұрын

My parents are Gen X but it seems to me that Gen X was very effected by the hippie counterculture and the veneration of youth. There's nothing wrong with growing up, that's what's always been expected because it's natural and right. I still respect your comment and appreciate your experience.

My grandparents were actually called Jack and Diane. When my grandpa died in the summer of 2020 from a heart attack we played this at the funeral and since then it has a whole new meaning. Life really does go on. And we miss you everyday ❤️

@nicholasmabe8565

3 жыл бұрын

Rest in peace may he forever live on in your memory 🙌

@zariaclinton6888

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for your loss

@geofftaylor8627

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent thanks.

@MrDulaboo

2 жыл бұрын

My condolences....

@kingcurt7716

2 жыл бұрын

My condolences goes out to you and your family.

Did not feel the time passed so quickly, first heard this song as a teenager ... now I am 51 years old ... this song is still exciting.

@willritter4076

4 жыл бұрын

I'd be honored if some John Cougar & 80s fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of JACK & DIANE and SOMEBODY'S BABY by Jackson Browne on my YT channel in tribute to the great musical summer of 1982. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital enhancements. Thanks and keep on rocking.

@GBURGE55

4 жыл бұрын

Feel the same. Bought this on a 7 inch single on its release. I'm now 55...Where has the time gone ?

@jimtim8805

4 жыл бұрын

Before dying January of this year my dad got teary eyed and kept saying "Seems like yesterday when I joined my job as a young man in 1975 and now I'm 70. Where does time go". And then he said he still closes his eyes and sees those days like it was yesterday. I felt it hit me really bad and felt emotional myself. I miss him so much now but at least he didn't live for a really long time as a sick human being as it was his complain that youth remains for a very short time and his dream was to die as an active person. Love you dad.

@paisleyprincess7996

4 жыл бұрын

I heard this song back in the summer of 82, as an 8-year old. Some parts passed quickly without ever enjoying the time, then real life passed slowly. Wish I could have smelled the roses and enjoyed my youth more

@TheProphessorx

4 жыл бұрын

Some cUuDdY(I think it right) sniffer say man u old,. I go Yar man; but my lady still puts the lamb chops in the paper bag n shake it the way it ought ta till the bottom just about ready to drop out..hehehe boyyy

The wife and me are both 55 we're still Jack and Diane. The thrill of livin still isn't gone.

When you're a kid all you want is to be an adult, but when you become an adult you learn what it's really like. That's what I take from this song.

@malcolmferguson2771

6 ай бұрын

Me too buddy

There are certain 80’s songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them.

@acatinthecradle

3 жыл бұрын

Same....and here I am feeling it March 2021.

@Mofokker

3 жыл бұрын

Makes me miss these days so much. Chasing girls and hanging out my my buds.

@treasurehunteruk9718

3 жыл бұрын

It sounds to me like it was 76/77. I was surprised to see it was so late.

@americafirst6408

2 жыл бұрын

@@assortedbile5381 I am 51 and feel so old,i been in 3 conflicts starting in 1989 with the Panama fiasco and it was on Christmas eve if i am correct but so much has happened and i get depressed when i hear these songs but i love all the same.

@MrsSlocombesPuddyCat

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Whilst not an 80s song, the 1999 song Graduation by Vitamin C......sends me over the edge with bittersweet nostalgia.

I don't get much time to listen to John but when I do so do my neighbors

@cassandrastuppiello5890

5 жыл бұрын

mine too ;)

@billyraytrent9493

5 жыл бұрын

@@cassandrastuppiello5890 I got put in jail for disturbing the peace because I had John cracked up

@hemmohoving2558

4 жыл бұрын

My neighbors like it so much they smashed my window with a brick so they could here it better.......i think!!!!

@gusm5128

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha 😂

@jonashopson4625

4 жыл бұрын

Billy Ray Trent old

I was 74. My baby brother was 70, almost 71, dying from end-stage renal disease. We'd drifted apart and hadn't spoken in almost 3 years, but when I heard he was dying, I picked up my phone and called him. He was in a VA hospice facility, but he had his cellphone and he answered. After not having spoken to each other in almost 3 years, in response to my asking, “How are you doing?” he said simply: “John Cougar Mellencamp time”. And without another word, I knew what he meant. We always had that ability to communicate, without words. With a look, or a sly reference, in a nanosecond, we KNEW what the other was thinking. In this case, the Mellancamp reference was specifically to The Ballad of Jack and Diane, the line, “Life goes on, long after the thrill, of livin’ is gone…"

@Carol-ys7cl

10 күн бұрын

Such an amazing line.. I feel it everyday.. love to you.❤

@judithhume9321

10 күн бұрын

@@Carol-ys7cl Thank you.

This was my mother’s and my aunt’s song. They’re both gone now and I miss them dearly. I hope you’re listening momma ❤

@elainewhittaker6239

9 ай бұрын

Am sure they are.x

@user-qo8ko5sx3e

8 ай бұрын

Prayers for all

@JulianneJohnston-wj1iv

8 ай бұрын

Got you, kid, my prayers & condolences ❤🎉

@JulianneJohnston-wj1iv

8 ай бұрын

Made me cry❤

@JohnMellencamp-vw4fm

7 ай бұрын

Hello Ronniearnett How're you doing? Comment like this are priceless, Thank you, It's a pleasure meeting you here ❤

Here to hear him say he's suckin' on a chili dog

@zackgb

3 жыл бұрын

I just found my people! 😂

@mountaindont34ify

3 жыл бұрын

Best rendition ever ❤

@dylanleason5724

3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap, I thought that I was alone! This is incredible!

@VORIANYT

3 жыл бұрын

Yess

@jmendoza3812

3 жыл бұрын

Omg same

This song brings back the good days... Anyone else agree?

@shutterbug_713

5 жыл бұрын

Me! AND in this video, 👎👎the hands @ 0:07, 0:16, 1:40 and 1:49--the punches @ 3:48, 3:57, and 4:06 R 2.1 gazillion times better! 👍👍

@rethamckenna7090

4 жыл бұрын

Vlinny Absolutely Agree!! BEST TIMES..BEST DECADE💯 2020!!!

@96rekoj

4 жыл бұрын

Very much so

@chrisloewen2994

4 жыл бұрын

Nob. Glad those days are over. I’m glad my 16th year is over.

@paisleyprincess7996

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Summer of 82

Jack and Diane still hits "the nail on the head" 40 years later.

@willritter4076

5 ай бұрын

I'd be honored if some early 80s fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal KZread performances of JACK & DIANE by John Cougar and SOMEBODY'S BABY by Jackson Browne in tribute to the great musical summer of 1982. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital enhancements. Stay safe and keep on rocking in the '020s.

I was literally 16 when this song was popular on the radio. I always remembered that line, hold on to 16 as long as you can, changes come around real soon, make us women and men...I tried as hard as I could to hold on to 16. But boy, was he right!......

@frankantonio4790

Жыл бұрын

Hello Rosalyn

@frankantonio4790

Жыл бұрын

Hello

@lemurianchick

Жыл бұрын

I was 16 that summer too. Now about to turn 57.

@BioVisier

Жыл бұрын

Probably one of the best lyric lines ever written.

@agittleson434

Жыл бұрын

So funny! I was also 16 at the time, and I ALWAYS thought the same thing!

this song play everyday on 98.3 fm new jersey

@curtisjonas3694

6 жыл бұрын

cyberman000051 takesmeback2goodoldays

@greatestever9086

6 жыл бұрын

I’m from Jersey and this brings back jersey shore memories

@sallyortega5065

4 жыл бұрын

You're right... Grew up in old bridge, nj... 1988-1993...remember listening to 98.3

@mayamaksimoska1797

3 жыл бұрын

Haha so true

@limjahee2506

3 жыл бұрын

Well that sucks we got Taylor swift everyday.....wanna make a trade??? Shes reaaaalllllyyyy good I swear

As a 30 something married man with kids this is the most depressing and at the same time uplifting song.

@Meatsquadron

11 ай бұрын

Yup! Also this is a real song about small towns. People forget that and it’s sad.

@Theodorik9

11 ай бұрын

I would love to have that experience. I live on the eastern seaboard our smallest town is likely a metropolis to a mid westerner

@donaldshotts4429

6 ай бұрын

​@@Theodorik9I'm a Hoosier and I've been all over. Hearing JCM always made me homesick, but at the same time you're not missing anything. He even says it in Small Town..."there's little opportunity". I will say southern Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee can be beautiful. Closest I've been to you is a short stay at Dover AFB or Rhode Island which was also beautiful in it's own way

I was 16 when this song came out. Now 57. Happy to report that the thrill of livin' still ain't gone. But yes, life goes on...

@Skyedrummer145

4 күн бұрын

Same here! Couldn't agree more. First single I ever bought...

I was a teenager in the 80’s. This was one of my favorite songs . Years later, as a charter pilot, I flew John and his family back home from the caribbean. I still have a picture of that day.

@blazeit505

6 ай бұрын

I started kindergarten in 83. It was great being an 80's kid growing up in a small mountain town. I got to shoot guns and go hunting. I was driving a manual truck as soon as my legs could reach the pedals.

"Hold onto 16 as long as you can". I did for a year, then I turned 17.

@karenlinka60

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Rob-qr2kn

4 жыл бұрын

u funny Sam, but also right

@GlassTopRX7

4 жыл бұрын

The drummer, bassist thought this song was so cheesy they didn't bother to play it.

@danielengler643

4 жыл бұрын

I swear when I was 16 I thought it was the stupidest line in the song. Now at 46, it might be the truest

@GlassTopRX7

4 жыл бұрын

@@danielengler643 Well for us it wasn't 16 it was 21.

I'm the youngest of 5 siblings in my family. I have 3 older brothers and 1 sister. So I was exposed to all types of music. From the 60's , 70's and my favorite ERA the 80's. I was born February of 1965 and I turned 15yrs old in 1980 so I lived the 80's music and all it gave me as a teenager. So listen to John Mellencamp is great to reminisce and enjoy my memories all over again. I'm 59 years old now and listening to music from Woburn Massachusetts at 12:15 pm on 18th of May 2024 i wrote it that way from years in the ARMY I'm a DESERT STORM VETERAN 11 BRAVO INFANTRY HOOAH long live ROCK AND ROLL.

“They say life goes on. Long after the thrill of living is gone.” There’s so much truth to those words.

@TNT-km2eg

Жыл бұрын

The thrill is gone - B.B.King

@maddogg5555

4 ай бұрын

"suckin on a chili dog outside the tastee freeze"

@Emilkado14

4 ай бұрын

Im going thru a mid life crisis right now and the thrill went away 20yrs ago

The clap is everything

So glad I grew up in the 80s with music like this.

@carolinewhitaker967

2 жыл бұрын

I remember my cousin and boyfriend Alan Dainty playing this video in Blackpool.

Happy 71st Birthday John Mellencamp!(Born October 7, 1951)😃🥳🎉🎊🎈🎁🍾🎂🥂👍👏🙌

@gavinfleetwood

4 ай бұрын

Wow. Same birthday as me lol.

JCM is one of the few artists who can make you think about your entire life with a 4 minute song.

@TNT-km2eg

Жыл бұрын

The thrill is gone - B.B. .King

@glynis1007

7 ай бұрын

Yup 😊

@mattrawling6646

6 ай бұрын

Totally agree

This song will forever be a timeless classic.

@dailysneed

11 ай бұрын

I'm 5 years old and I feel nostalgic

@mickjagger8439

11 ай бұрын

@@dailysneed That's 5 in dog years?

My dad's been gone 34 years today and this was his favorite song of all time! Still a banger

@Ada-zn3pw

7 ай бұрын

Truly timeless songs like this only come around every once in awhile

@buttyscott1

4 ай бұрын

My condolences 🙏

I'm 50. I remember when this song was new. John was right. Life does go on long after the thrill of living is gone.....

@GenieKOHara

2 жыл бұрын

Amen brother. If we could just all go back and live it all over...

80's the best era, Great music, gifted artists, probably best living... Golden era.

@bengtgerstrom8268

2 жыл бұрын

Japp!👍

My FIRST RECORD! American Fool. This man mad me learn guitar without ever paying for a lesson.Growing up in Indiana, he made me PROUD and taught me VALUES through his music.

Who’s still listening in 2020.. 9-2-20 ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@thomasmusto2049

3 жыл бұрын

It makes the best days come back

@tonybensley6246

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasmusto2049 Yes! It sure does!! CHEERS!!

@usryjl1

3 жыл бұрын

2020

@alterego3590

3 жыл бұрын

Generation X...1964...from Europe...this song will never be old...but sure as hell we are, and our brothers and sisters in the US as wel. Time has not been to great for the last few months, neither for you neither for us...

@josemurillo7922

3 жыл бұрын

1ske

A little ditty about Jack & Diane....... two American kids doin best they can!!!!!!! Love it!!!!! My favorite part.

Happy 40th Birthday “Jack and Diane”! 10/2/2022. I was 9 yrs old when the song debuted - thankfully, the thrill of living has never left! Cheers.

@frankantonio4790

Жыл бұрын

Hello

@henshawsm

Жыл бұрын

I was born on October 2nd!

I am an 80s girl and this was one of my FAVORITE songs back then. Many years later, I named my son Jack.................................

Turned 16 yesterday. Let's make this year the best one yet :) holding on into it as long as I can

@JohnDoe-xg4yr

4 жыл бұрын

I have been holding onto 16 for 40 years.

@barackobama4777

4 жыл бұрын

John Doe Most people hold onto it for a year but you must have listened to this song a lot and you have now possessed the power of John Cougar Mellencamp.

@zebiak41

4 жыл бұрын

Kaelyn, you have a great life in front of you. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

@eradikate306

3 жыл бұрын

Happy late birthday

@adamholtz733

3 жыл бұрын

Rock On Kaelyn !!! This is your song !!!

I remembered back in 2002 ,I suffered a bad hang over trying to be grown at the tender age of 16 on my spring break! I mean mannnn, I was throwing up every where in my aunt house , I was depressed because I was missing a grown ass man ( who was four years my senior...20) who could careless about me! I didn't sober up until the next following day in the evening and I was left at home alone. I decided to clean my aunts house for her and I turned on the radio and heard this song for the first time in my life! At the time I didn't realized this song was speaking to me about enjoying my youth while I can! Coincidently, I was 16 years old at the time😢....This song holds a special place in my heart💙💖

@MichaelTurner856

3 жыл бұрын

That's so beautiful! Hope you're doing well

@cfalcon0754

3 жыл бұрын

I will definitely pray for you so that way nothing bad ever happens to you like that again.

@refresh1984

3 жыл бұрын

Life goes on buddy

@lovelydaniel8083

3 жыл бұрын

@@refresh1984 You don't say

@jimogrady1131

3 жыл бұрын

lovely Daniel I went to a Chatholic School Most of us 8th graders were drinking Beer. The school was crazy all Nun Teachers. To bad for me I still had my IRISH Freckles on my face. For got we were 70s kids. So much for Chatholics being Catholics. We were bad kids we went to lots of 70s concerts. 70s kid watching Brady Bunch & Partridge Family. Really sucks Im 58 & still drinking Beer. Not always fun being IRISH lots of people think were all Drunks, even today REDHEADS get Bullied. We do have our flaws our skin burns easilly in the Sun. Some people think our Freckles are Bug Bites

Graduated in '88. Our school had a jukebox in the cafeteria that took quarters and this song, without a doubt, was the most played. The seniors had first dibs and it wasn't unusual for them to put a few dollars in the machine and select this song a dozen times so that even second round of students couldn't play anything else. Life goes on.

I was 14 when this song came out. I loved it, bought the full vinyl lp. I'm 54 now and the lyric *are h yeah,mlife goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone" rings so brilliant fucking perfect true. Thanks for the warning man,bthe shot across the bow that resonated for 40 years. Really, who else hear the blithe sardonic gospel choir of reality smack down and jyst got it? Who were the ones that sang along blindly draped in the ever holy trinity of stars, stripes and red white... Ok, we messed one out.... Who???????? Really???😅 ❤thanks for Farm-Aid as well. That mattered. It mattered a lot.

can remember waiting beside the radio every Saturday to hear if Casey Kasem was gonna play this song .

@willritter4076

5 жыл бұрын

I'd be honored if some John Cougar Mellencamp fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performances of JACK & DIANE and SOMEBODY'S BABY by Jackson Browne on my YT channel (tap on my photo go there) in tribute to the great musical summer of 1982. Live acoustic with no autotune or digital enhancements. Thanks and keep on rocking.

@Theviduch

5 жыл бұрын

Me too :)

@Joeltrejo62

5 жыл бұрын

I still miss Casey Kasem reviews on the radio. He used to comment on letters he read on the air asking for a especial dedication.

@tomstevens1516

4 жыл бұрын

At our local radio station they remastered kasey kasem, every Saturday and sunday

@THEJIG-IS-UP

4 жыл бұрын

Yup

I met my high school sweetheart Emily in 1966 when I visited her church. I drove 10 miles a day to her town in my '55 Chevy 2dr to work (yep, went to school and had a job), but I also had to sneak around to see her. I could write a book about the things we did and this song by John Mellencamp REALLY brings those memories back, even though it was written over a decade later. Ha ...damn son, no wonder some kids wish that they had lived in the '60s. News Flash: Live for today. I am loving 2010-2015 and some of today's songs, like Royals by Lorde, Roar by Katy, Sugar by Maroon 5... fact is, I can pick out a whole group of cool songs that stir my blood from every year since 1965 when I got my first piece of ... :-D - I am 65/yo and still rock hard when it comes to love and life.

@cousins4l65

5 жыл бұрын

Cee dot

@cousins4l65

5 жыл бұрын

Not certain cee cee. Not shows.

@valkor73

5 жыл бұрын

ggggggood for ya

@soniarena5250

5 жыл бұрын

You should write that book

@Georghiou2D

5 жыл бұрын

you rule man. i wanna read that book

My uncle Billy died over the summer, he used to set on our front porch play guitar and sing this song us when we were little.

I may only be 17 but this song hits deep, thankyou dad for showing me it❤️

@Cameron-ul2xe

4 ай бұрын

no problem son!

"Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone." How this stings.

@randomyoutube0

5 жыл бұрын

Stings the nostrils, indeed

@BigboiiTone

5 жыл бұрын

if you get tired of living you're living wrong

@TomMy-jb1qr

5 жыл бұрын

@@BigboiiTone ?? How do you?? Live right I've tried for 54 year s and still haven't quite figured it out

@g-star9434

5 жыл бұрын

Love your comment,take care!

@BigboiiTone

5 жыл бұрын

@@TomMy-jb1qr by not caring what society says. doing my own thing

The America that I grew up in!!

@jbav8484

3 жыл бұрын

Is that not a bit depressing?

@Tigman396

3 жыл бұрын

Yep just wish it had turned out the American dream instead of the nightmare.

@commentcopbadge6665

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tigman396 Aw come on. How anout some manipulation? "MAKE America great again", not "Hope for it".

@Tigman396

3 жыл бұрын

@@commentcopbadge6665 oh there has been a lot of manipulation of the nation.

@Tigman396

3 жыл бұрын

@Rose Nikolas I have a problem what it has become, not what it was. It all comes down to the people.

I love this guy I wasn’t alive at the time but when he was younger he dated my aunt Betty and lives super close to me

As a teenager in the 80s. I thought this was just a great song 🎵. In 2022 I know what it all means. I take it day by day. Always doing the best I can......

@joekaiser7512

Жыл бұрын

How about a lil ditty about Joe and Lisa…an all -American boy livin in Cali and a Sunset Blvd. street sweetie lovin it up in a retirement home. Yeah buddy!

@vovo1204

Жыл бұрын

Same feelings here

@michaelwills1926

9 ай бұрын

Same

The groove in this song is legendary :D

@snakesinalaska

7 жыл бұрын

ikr

@therealawakener7

7 жыл бұрын

'Kenny Aronoff', drumming legend. That's why. :-).

@Mitchieboo1970

6 жыл бұрын

Max Pankau For Real!!!

@Ironman829

6 жыл бұрын

Kenny is killer on this song. Chills

@jessatheclassicrockfan6925

6 жыл бұрын

Max Pankau Ikr :D

I'm 60, and still loving life. It's so much clearer now that I'm wiser, lol

This song just randomly came into my head just now, and here I am appreciating good old 80s music! ❤️

@markhamburton7331

Жыл бұрын

I remember this song well. I ,like most of us,thought this song was about the song writer JCM. However I was shocked to learn what it was truly about. The song's true origins before the record company encouraged him to change the lyrics. When I use to watch the video on MTV originally I thought about how ,while I loved the best and the song,I felt this song was light years from my own experience. Decades later I found out how wrong I was.

@arafjan7488

Жыл бұрын

Woke up this morning and from nowhere this song popped up even before I brushed my teeth- great song

@laurie273

Жыл бұрын

Me too. Popped in my head Out of Nowhere! Had to listen to it...

@CorridorOfMirrorsRemixes

Жыл бұрын

@@laurie273 It's a classic! :)

I get so much nostalgia from this song. I wasn’t even alive when it was released, I’ve heard it so much as a kid that it’s just engraved in my head forever

I remember listening to my older sister’s 45 of this song over and over at 12 years old and thinking “I can’t wait until I’m older” - now 50, oh to be young again!

@johnmellencamp1731

3 жыл бұрын

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This was the first American song I heard when I came to America in 1982. Shaped my whole life.

Long live John Mellencamp this is legend

Im a 90s kid and i remember loving this song when mom or dad played it. still such a great song at 33 years old

My mom loved this tune . God bless her soul;..

@ch3vygrl333

9 жыл бұрын

My mom as well rip mom

@melissasaggus9683

6 жыл бұрын

My brother loved this song! I remember riding in his Malibu cross I-20. I miss him and the good times.

My papa who’s dying suffering from cancer always played this for me when I was 2 and when I see him he puts it on and says not smoke like me bud or you’re end up like me. I am crying while saying this well the lesson is I guess don’t smoke oh pa you see this keep fighting.

Classic from my 80’s childhood. And that drum solo where Kenny Aronoff is really laying down the Funk is my favorite drum solo after Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight”. 🥁🤘

@section8usmc53

10 ай бұрын

There's a great interview with him here on KZread about doing this song.

@michaelwills1926

9 ай бұрын

@@section8usmc53I came here directly from that interview. Kenny is the man 🤙🏼

@zombiiesque

3 ай бұрын

​@@section8usmc53I have to see that!

@zombiiesque

3 ай бұрын

Love that solo so much.

How does video only have 215k likes? One of my favorites. “Hold onto 16 as long as you can, changes come around real soon make us women and men” is lyrical gold

0:57 “Suckin’ awn chili dawg.....” Favorite line.

@jenniferbridgesmerrow8501

3 жыл бұрын

Scratches his head and Does his best James Dean!!

@DakGuy05

2 жыл бұрын

The only good part that makes it worth listening to lol. Way overplayed

When I die I will do so knowing that I lived through the greatest music ever to cross the airwaves

@mariealexa6578

5 жыл бұрын

yessssssssss!

@annobrien5287

4 жыл бұрын

Yessssssssss

@stevieb9066

4 жыл бұрын

ain't that the effin truth

@charlinatrice60

4 жыл бұрын

Z1@@annobrien5287

@tobymaxmax658

3 жыл бұрын

80smwere fantastic

This song speaks to me of my carefree teenage years. My name is Diane and it's such a cool song with my name in it. But the line "Hold onto 16 for as long as you can" rings true for me, because my 16th year was so exciting and memorable. It was my junior year in high school and I had finally come out of my shell. Boys started to notice me--I was a late bloomer. I was one of those kids who was lucky enough to have a joyous, innocent youth until I started college in the late 70s. Although universal, Jack and Diane seem to come from my era--even their childhood photos used this video are all from my era. I I grew up fast in college and the protected, safe world of 16 and high school was gone and replaced by adult things and activities that I was ill-prepared for. Even now I miss the innocence and joy of life when I was 16. I was so happy and carefree back then. Kids nowadays grow up a lot faster and seem to have a lot more pressure to grow up faster than when I was a kid.

My grandma Diane loved this song before she passed. I've been listening to it since I was a baby. In my 19 years, I've been blessed with this song. I now listen to it to honor her memory. It's honestly a mood lifter. Just makes me sad some days.

Just went on a date and she told me she just wants to be friends, I felt sad but thought "life goes on" and picked myself back up

@rustybrowneye

4 жыл бұрын

You should have forced it bro

@kadenp4130

4 жыл бұрын

Good on you

@santamantacalentamontelle

4 жыл бұрын

Hey brother it's okay. My dad just got out of prison 2 months ago. He went to prison when i was 3 and now I'm 12. It's sad but he is a big part of my life. Family is better then a friend or girl friend. I felt much worst and suicide but don't worry. You didn't have to take her out. I hope you get better buddy. Because as they say. "Life goes on".

@TheDivayenta

3 жыл бұрын

What’s meant for you will never miss you! She wasn’t the one.

@BillyOnYouTube

3 жыл бұрын

I recently lost my father to Covid two months ago. The thought of "Life goes on" really helps. Especially coming from this song.

My late dad was a huge fan...this song reminds me of him all the time :(

@bbanger73

3 жыл бұрын

Me too honey. My daddy passed away 3 weeks ago and it's miserable. Take care of yourself

In 1982 I was in Chicago in bootcamp, this song helped me through and I have been a John Cougar Mellencamp fan ever since.

@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259

2 ай бұрын

Everyone called him John Mellencamp and that was fine then for some reason began calling him John Cougar Mellencamp. For some reason this seemed odd to me at the time.

My dogs are the best in life. As a teen hearing this song id thought about, how I'd want too hold on to 16 as long as I could. Now a senior citizen I don't feel as one. Thanks for this song🕺💃

Takes me back to simpler, less complicated times!

@chepelapodgaming4072

4 жыл бұрын

It's always been complicated your where just too young to really see any of it

@princessofnada87j25

4 жыл бұрын

Yes people are more complicated now

@kennethcannon6374

4 жыл бұрын

only people make life complicated

@tracysullivan3715

3 жыл бұрын

Where’s the time machine? I’d ❤️ to re-live 1982!!!

@jenniferbridgesmerrow8501

3 жыл бұрын

Mr too

One of the absolute BEST tunes of the eighties-if not THE best!

This is my all time favorite of his. I'm 50 today ...we share the same birthday. Happy birthday John

I grew up on a dairy farm in Southwest Wisconsin. I was in high school in the mid 80s. We would hear and sing this song on the bus. Gave me a good feeling thinking he was "one of us". His thoughts from the words were so naturally... normal. Cool. Takes me back to those times every time I hear this song. I certainly miss those simpler times. "Oh, yeah. Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone".

Reminds me of my dear friend who just lost her struggle with cancer....love u Tracey

@andrethomas6367

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry man:(

Im 38 years old & im still listening to john mellencamp

@ronnichols3780

4 жыл бұрын

scrappy doo I’m 73 and still listening

@Andrea1542

2 жыл бұрын

Wow you're a whole 38. 🙄

I love this song way more today than in 1982. It gets better each year. ❤Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.

It's funny, still to this very day, when I hear this song I stop and sing the lyrics no mater where I am. One of my favorite songs as a teenager.

Return to my 15 years , return to my first love ..good times , good music , and never forget

this song will always remind me of my parents...Dave and diane. Yeah, we made the whole "dave" part work hahaha...rip momma..love you 😍✌🌻

@edreebenaker5094

6 жыл бұрын

Amy Lynn sorry for your loss Amy best wishes to you

Awww wasn't he the cutie little baby boy you ever saw besides my son 🥰 Oh I love those pictures John . Man I ❤️ sure appreciate your music man 👌👍👏 Been fan for many many yrs ❤❤❤

God I miss the 80s! The best decade ever ❤

@bengtgerstrom8268

2 жыл бұрын

Japp!👍

@jesshunt-yates984

2 жыл бұрын

The best decade was the 1030s, byzantine hey days 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😎😎😎😎😎😭

@jesshunt-yates984

2 жыл бұрын

@RandomGuy 1030s were much better. Better unemployment better emperor

@larrybill2661

Жыл бұрын

Hello Karen how are you doing!!

There’s truly no decade like the 80’s , such a simpler time and so many good movies !! Of course the best, this song !!

@johnmellencamp1731

3 жыл бұрын

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@larrybill2661

Жыл бұрын

Hello Michelle how are you doing!!

listening after the bojack horseman finale, tbh. life goes on. long after the thrill of living is gone.

@danieljurczyk582

4 жыл бұрын

Same here...

@Cruxin

4 жыл бұрын

Wondered if i'd see many here. Just the one, apparently

@chugga452

4 жыл бұрын

Make that four

@k.lopperz6423

4 жыл бұрын

Five 🤙

My grandma loved this song❤️🥲🙏🙏🙏

Reminds me of my childhood growing up in the 80's . 😊

Favorite song for over 30 years!!!!!! Aww, the bliss and nostalgia the whole room feels when it comes on the radio...

@johnmellencamp1731

3 жыл бұрын

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@larrybill2661

Жыл бұрын

Hello Angie how are you doing!!

@sarahhayes7327

9 ай бұрын

I’m known by all my friends as a huge music person and this is also my very favorite song and has been for decades.

My grandparents are married and named Jack and Diane. Jack played football at San Jose St. Just like the song!

@dianajebichii8388

3 жыл бұрын

And your name is Jack and mine is Diana and I am married (I still think so) to a bloke named Jack haha

Haven't listened to this song in a while, coming back to it I love it as much as ever. I lived in Bloomington for a couple years, went to the music school there. One of my friends worked a little with Kenny Aranoff, who said that Johnny Cougar was a brilliant musician who knew exactly what he was doing. Can't argue with that. This is pure poetry, John Mellencamp captures exactly the essence of teenage life in a Heartland small town, whether in Kansas, Ohio or Indiana.

So raw, authentic, and wholesome. What great music is supposed to sound like. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world. The 80’s and early 90’s music made the entire planet heal and vibrate higher. I love the 80’s music forever.

LYRICS: A little ditty 'bout Jack & Diane Two American kids growing up in the heart land Jack he's gonna be a football star Diane debutante in the back seat of Jacky's car Suckin' on chilli dog outside the Tastee Freez Diane sitting on Jacky's lap Got his hands between her knees Jack he says: "Hey, Diane, let's run off behind a shady tree Dribble off those Bobby Brooks Let me do what I please" Saying oh yeah Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone Sayin' oh yeah Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone Now walk on Jack he sits back, collects his thoughts for a moment Scratches his head, and does his best James Dean Well, now then, there, Diane, we ought to run off to the city Diane says: "Baby, you ain't missing nothing" But Jack he says: "Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone" Oh yeah He says: "life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone" Oh, let it rock, let it roll Let the bible belt come and save my soul Holdin' on to sixteen as long as you can Change is coming 'round real soon Make us woman and man Oh yeah, life goes on A little ditty 'bout Jack and Diane Two American kids doin' the best they can

@annobrien5287

4 жыл бұрын

Thank u. Great times.

@hell-sol5240

4 жыл бұрын

Your way the hell off

@mickmerzon_music

3 жыл бұрын

@@hell-sol5240 **you’re. Your spelling is off.

Just finished HS in 1982 when this song came out...Helped build a house that summer and always remember the gal next door who passed by everyday, highlight of the day. Never amounted to anything, but was the best 5 minute break each day...lol went off to military after that summer...but will always associate that song to that summer. (Yes, I did talk with her..my age, but she had a boyfriend and happy..lol)

I thought it was a Don McClane song. I am a Korean living in Korea and I remember hearing these songs on the radio when I was a teenager in the 90s.

When John was "ON"....You knew it. He is one of a kind. Sadly music is dead today...ROCK ON JOHN!

smoking a Marlboro with a pack rolled up in my white t shirt sleeve. this son song reminds me of were I come from gives me chills everytime I hear it

This song was #1 when I was born. Considering the subject matter and that the video starts with baby photos, it's pretty surreal for me.

One of the most powerful nostalgia songs.... I hear this and in my mind it is instantly the early 2000s I'm 10 years old and I'm riding around with my friends and their parents singing this song word for word on the dirt roads and cow pastures of central Florida

Songs like this are very rare. Truly a classic.