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3 | John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951 in Seymour, Indiana), [[IHaveManyNames previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp]], is an American singer-songwriter and musician. |
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5 | Active since the 1970s, he is known for his unique brand of rock music, which started out as HeartlandRock but then took a more eclectic turn, making heavy use of traditional instruments, with a focus on rural and country life. In 1985, Mellencamp, together with Music/WillieNelson and Music/NeilYoung, created Farm Aid. He also holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart (seven), and has been nominated for 13 UsefulNotes/{{Gramm|yAward}}ies, successfully winning one. |
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7 | He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10, 2008, and to the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 14, 2018. |
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9 | !!Discography: |
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11 | * ''Chestnut Street Incident'' (1976) |
12 | * ''A Biography'' (1978) |
13 | * ''John Cougar'' (1979) |
14 | * ''Nothin' Matters and What If It Did'' (1980) |
15 | * ''American Fool'' (1982) |
16 | * ''The Kid Inside'' (1983) |
17 | * ''Uh-Huh'' (1983) |
18 | * ''Scarecrow'' (1985) |
19 | * ''The Lonesome Jubilee'' (1987) |
20 | * ''Big Daddy'' (1989) |
21 | * ''Whenever We Wanted'' (1991) |
22 | * ''Human Wheels'' (1993) |
23 | * ''Dance Naked'' (1994) |
24 | * ''Mr. Happy Go Lucky'' (1996) |
25 | * ''John Mellencamp'' (1998) |
26 | * ''Rough Harvest'' (1999) |
27 | * ''Cuttin' Heads'' (2001) |
28 | * ''Trouble No More'' (2003) |
29 | * ''Freedom's Road'' (2007) |
30 | * ''Life, Death, Love and Freedom'' (2008) |
31 | * ''No Better Than This'' (2010) |
32 | * ''Plain Spoken'' (2014) |
33 | * ''Sad Clowns & Hillbillies'' (2017) |
34 | * ''Other People's Stuff'' (2018) |
35 | * ''Strictly a One-Eyed Jack'' (2022) |
36 | * ''Orpheus Descending'' (2023) |
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38 | !!"Little tropes about Jack and Diane...": |
39 | * AppropriatedAppellation: Took the nickname "Little Bastard" from actor and fellow Indiana native Creator/JamesDean's motorcycle. |
40 | * CharacterTitle: "Jackie Brown" |
41 | * CoverVersion: "Wild Night" with Meshell Ndegeocello was a cover of the Music/VanMorrison original. |
42 | ** His first album, ''Chestnut Street Incident'', contains covers of Oh, Pretty Woman by Music/RoyOrbison, Jailhouse Rock by Music/ElvisPresley, Do You Believe In Magic by Music/TheLovinSpoonful, and [[Music/TheDoorsAlbum Twentieth Century Fox]] by Music/TheDoors, with Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld by Music/DavidBowie and Kicks by Music/PaulRevereAndTheRaiders as bonus tracks. |
43 | ** He contributed a cover of Music/ElvisPresley's "Jailhouse Rock" to the ''Film/HoneymoonInVegas'' soundtrack. |
44 | * CreatorProvincialism: Played with in "Small Town." While he says that he's "got nothing against the big town," he still prefers his small town. |
45 | * DarkerAndEdgier: ''Human Wheels'' was one of his darkest and more introspective works. |
46 | * NameAndName: "Jack and Diane," of course. |
47 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Sung word for word in "Crumblin' Down." |
48 | * PrecisionFStrike: From "Play Guitar" on ''Uh-Huh''.: |
49 | --->"Forget about all that macho shit\ |
50 | Learn how to play guitar" |
51 | * ProtestSong: "Rain on the Scarecrow." John had seen first-hand how America's farmers were getting screwed by corporations, and he was an ''angry'' man when he wrote this song. |
52 | * SelfTitledAlbum: 1979's ''John Cougar'' and 1998's ''John Mellencamp'' both qualify. |
53 | * SesquipedalianSmith: Inverted, and how. |
54 | * ShoutOut: "R.O.C.K. in the USA (A Salute to 60s Rock)" salutes Frankie Lymon, Bobby Fuller, Mitch Ryder, Jackie Wilson, The Shangri-Las, The Young Rascals, Martha Reeves and Music/JamesBrown. |
55 | * TheSomethingSong: "Authority Song". |
56 | * SpellingSong: "R.O.C.K. in the USA" spells "Rock" in the chorus. |
57 | * StageNames: One of the most notable cases of both this and an aversion of it, with ExecutiveMeddling playing a role. His manager decided that Mellencamp wasn't very marketable so he renamed him Johnny Cougar (1976-1978), then his label shortened it to John Cougar (1979-1982), then they made a halfway compromise with him to use John Cougar Mellencamp for the rest of the decade, before he dropped the Cougar once and for all in the 90s. |
58 | * TakeThat: "Pop Singer", his 1989 single off of ''Big Daddy'', is this to the ExecutiveMeddling he put up with early in his career. |
59 | * ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: From ''Uh-Huh'' onwards, his music became increasingly topical. |
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