John Cougar Mellencamp
Westwood One Superstars In Concert #PAN84-3
Indiana University Auditorium, Bloomington, In April 10, 1984
For airing the Weekend of November 10, 1984
Pre-FM Vinyl Rip
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Cue Sheet, Label, Box Cover, & Affidavit Scans Included
This Comes To Us Thanks To Draftervoi
Lineage: Pre-FM vinyls > ? > HDD > WAV > Audacity > TLH > FLAC (L8)
01 Introduction
02 Heartbreak Hotel (John Cale/Elvis Presley Cover)
03 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Animals Cover)
04 Pretty Ballerina (Left Banke Cover)
05 Ya Ya (Lee Dorsey Cover)
06 Jack And Diane
07 Crumblin’ Down
08 Hand To Hold On To
09 Authority Song
10 I Need A Lover
11 Play Guitar
12 Pink Houses
13 Golden Gates
14 Shoot Out The Lights (Richard Thompson Cover)
15 Serious Business
16 Hurts So Good
17 Jackie O
Total time: 1hr 17mn 02sc
John Mellencamp - vocals, guitar
Larry Crane - guitar
Mike Wanchic - guitar
John Cascella - keyboards
Toby Myers - bass
Kenny Aronoff - drums and percussion
Draftervoi's original notes:
Instead of trotting out the usual “hits plus new songs” set list, Mellencamp takes a tour through his record collection and opens up with four cover songs. His taste is more eclectic than you’d expect. He starts things off with “Heartbreak Hotel.” Yes, the Elvis Presley song... but he’s doing a note-for-note clone of John Cale’s ominous arrangement from the Slow Dazzle album.
Next up is a pretty standard cover of The Animals’ “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” (but he beats Elvis Costello’s cover of the same song by a good two years), followed by a quick run through the Left Banke’s 1966 baroque-pop hit, “Pretty Ballerina.” He finishes up with Lee Dorsey’s “Ya Ya.”
Then he gets down to what you’d expect: songs from John Cougar, Nothing Matters and What If It Did, and American Fool. But he’s not done with showing off his good taste yet: at the end, he pulls out a cover of Richard Thompson’s “Shoot Out The Lights,” and calls him “one of the best songwriters writin’ songs today...” John Mellencamp was taking valuable air time on a nationally syndicated radio show to promote Richard Thompson. Pretty cool...
So this is something a bit different; you get five cover songs, none of which were ever officially released. I also did a painstaking manual removal of each click and pop, so this is about as perfect as this show will ever get. I included scans of the disc label, affidavit, cue sheet, and front cover.
Westwood One Superstars In Concert #PAN84-3
Indiana University Auditorium, Bloomington, In April 10, 1984
For airing the Weekend of November 10, 1984
Pre-FM Vinyl Rip
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Cue Sheet, Label, Box Cover, & Affidavit Scans Included
This Comes To Us Thanks To Draftervoi
Lineage: Pre-FM vinyls > ? > HDD > WAV > Audacity > TLH > FLAC (L8)
01 Introduction
02 Heartbreak Hotel (John Cale/Elvis Presley Cover)
03 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Animals Cover)
04 Pretty Ballerina (Left Banke Cover)
05 Ya Ya (Lee Dorsey Cover)
06 Jack And Diane
07 Crumblin’ Down
08 Hand To Hold On To
09 Authority Song
10 I Need A Lover
11 Play Guitar
12 Pink Houses
13 Golden Gates
14 Shoot Out The Lights (Richard Thompson Cover)
15 Serious Business
16 Hurts So Good
17 Jackie O
Total time: 1hr 17mn 02sc
John Mellencamp - vocals, guitar
Larry Crane - guitar
Mike Wanchic - guitar
John Cascella - keyboards
Toby Myers - bass
Kenny Aronoff - drums and percussion
Draftervoi's original notes:
Instead of trotting out the usual “hits plus new songs” set list, Mellencamp takes a tour through his record collection and opens up with four cover songs. His taste is more eclectic than you’d expect. He starts things off with “Heartbreak Hotel.” Yes, the Elvis Presley song... but he’s doing a note-for-note clone of John Cale’s ominous arrangement from the Slow Dazzle album.
Next up is a pretty standard cover of The Animals’ “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” (but he beats Elvis Costello’s cover of the same song by a good two years), followed by a quick run through the Left Banke’s 1966 baroque-pop hit, “Pretty Ballerina.” He finishes up with Lee Dorsey’s “Ya Ya.”
Then he gets down to what you’d expect: songs from John Cougar, Nothing Matters and What If It Did, and American Fool. But he’s not done with showing off his good taste yet: at the end, he pulls out a cover of Richard Thompson’s “Shoot Out The Lights,” and calls him “one of the best songwriters writin’ songs today...” John Mellencamp was taking valuable air time on a nationally syndicated radio show to promote Richard Thompson. Pretty cool...
So this is something a bit different; you get five cover songs, none of which were ever officially released. I also did a painstaking manual removal of each click and pop, so this is about as perfect as this show will ever get. I included scans of the disc label, affidavit, cue sheet, and front cover.
