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The Best That I Could Do 1978-1988 | 
 enlarge | Artist: John Mellencamp
Label: Island
Category: Music
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Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 3376
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 536738
UPC: 731453673823
EAN: 0731453673823
ASIN: B000001EYI
Release Date: November 18, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | I Need a Lover | | • | Ain't Even Done with the Night | | • | Hurts So Good | | • | Jack and Diane | | • | Crumblin' Down | | • | Pink Houses | | • | Authority Song | | • | Lonely Ol' Night | | • | Small Town | | • | R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. | | • | Paper in Fire | | • | Cherry Bomb | | • | Check It Out | | • | Without Expression - John Mellencamp, Reid, Terry |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The Best That I Could Do collects the singles that led John Mellencamp into the radio/jukebox pantheon he celebrated in "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." and "Cherry Bomb." While albums such as American Fool, Uh Huh, and Scarecrow held Top 10 spots for months, their spinoff hits made this Hoosier disciple of Jagger, J.B., and Iggy into something like a Reagan-era John Fogerty: not only were "Pink Houses," "Paper in Fire," and "Crumblin' Down" wise (and wiseacre) dispatches from an America where it wasn't always morning, they could fill a dance floor and get you pounding the dashboard on the way home. --Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Best That I Could Do September 23, 2008
J. Lindner (Gem Lake, MN United States)
John Mellencamp sing from the heart about the heartland of our country. His songs give insight into small town farming communities, teenage angst, divorce, dringking, and on and on. He lives in the land where he sings about, so he's not some transplant who has the outsider's view of mid-America.
These songs on this collection are his greatest hits. Every one of them has received airplay on popular and rock radio stations. Mellencamp is not one of those artists with two or three bonafide hits and seven songs no one has ever heard of on a greats hits album. His songs are genuine and belong on such a collection. Ideally there should be a box set that allows some of the B sides of songs to get some renewed exposure to a greater audience.
This collection is very good and will leave you humming one or two of the songs throughout the day.
great cd, brings back memories!!! July 27, 2008
A. Fleer (columbus, ohio)
it is rare that you find a cd that you like every track on it, this is the rare exception, this is a great cd. you can listen to it over and over again, would recommend to any mellencamp fan or any 80"s fan
 Very good and full of hits ! December 23, 2007
Guy Campeau (Stoneham, Quebec Canada)
A good cd to remember those sweet 80's and the hot summer night when I was a teenager. John Mellencamp was a hit machine and this "best of" contains his most known songs. If you are a casual fan like me, this album is made for you.
 why bother? November 23, 2007
B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I truly don't like John Mellencamp. His music was always some of the most offensive classic rock that came from the 80's because he hardly ever had any interesting musical ideas. It was always straight-forward, predictable commercial country rock/hard rock that never really did anything for me personally. This collection of tracks captures every single overplayed moment in all its glory. A disc you truly don't need to own because even today you can turn your radio on to ANY classic rock station and find most of the songs on the disc featured there, making this disc entirely pointless. The songs I particularly dislike would be "Pink Houses", "Lonely Ol' Night" and "Small Town". "Jack and Diane" HAS to be one of the most overplayed songs of all-time. It was great the first time you heard SOME of these songs, but not anymore. Overexposure can ruin a musicians career in the long run.
 John Mellencamp - Just The Hits Folks October 9, 2007
Steven Sly (Kalamazoo, MI United States)
This album is exactly what the title implies, a collection of Mellencamp's singles recorded during his first decade. For what it is the album is a decent enough collection. You get no album cuts here, just the big hits and as the title implies there is nothing from any of his albums after 1988. So, there is a lot missing here. If you are just looking for the hits this is ok, but Mellencamp's work goes much deeper than this.
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