This two-disc set was released Octoon the Island and UTV Records labels. The biggest complaint that could be lodged against this collection is that the sequencing is doggedly nonchronological, which may upset some listeners who would like to hear his career evolve, but this sequencing flows like a good concert and highlights the common threads in his music from 1978 to 2004. Words & Music: John Mellencamps Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by American rock and roll artist John Mellencamp.
Radio hits like "Justice and Independence '85" and "Rooty Toot Toot" may be absent, but they're not missed, since all the big hits are here, including "Pink Houses," "Lonely Ol' Night," "Paper in Fire," "Authority Song," "Crumblin' Down," "Small Town," "Hurts So Good," and "Jack & Diane," among many others (including two solid new songs). Spanning 37 songs over two discs, this has nearly all of his charting hits. Critics considered this album one of Mellencamps darkest. Words & Music doesn't have the problem of brevity. The album includes the songs Void In My Heart, and the bitter Big Daddy of them All. His previous hits collection, 1997's The Best That I Could Do, was too short, since he had more hits than could fit on a brief 14-track disc. The album version contains the lyrics: 'So be careful of those killing in Jesus name/He dont believe in killing at all.' The single version that was released to radio replaces those lines with: 'And I wish you all a. His first hit came three years later with 'I Need a Lover.' With hits like 'Small Town' and the iconic 'Jack and Diane,' Mellencamp was all over the airwaves in the 1980s. It can be found on his 2004 compilation Words & Music: John Mellencamps Greatest Hits. John Mellencamp has been in need of a thorough, career-spanning compilation for a while, and Island/UTV's 2004 release Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits finally fills that gap. Whether you know him as John Cougar, John Cougar Mellencamp, or just John Mellencamp (his birth name), this well-known rocker has been recording music since 1976.
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