Description: John Cougar The Kid Inside - 10 tracks and two bonus tracks On Original Master - a Snapper Music Label All songs written by John Mellencamp; except where noted."Kid Inside" – 5:32"Take What You Want" – 3:14"Cheap Shot" – 3:53"Sidewalk and Streetlights" – 4:08"R. Gang" – 2:30"American Son" – 4:52"Gearhead" – 2:38"Young Genocides" – 2:26"Too Young to Live" – 7:45"Survive" – 4:091998 CD bonus tracks"The Whore" – 1:21"The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie) – 2:27 1976–1982: Performing as Johnny Cougar and John CougarAfter 18 months of traveling between Indiana and New York City in 1974 and 1975, Mellencamp met Tony DeFries of MainMan Management, who was receptive to his music and image. DeFries insisted that Mellencamp's first album, Chestnut Street Incident, a collection of cover versions and some original songs, be released under the stage name Johnny Cougar, insisting that the bumpy German name "Mellencamp" was too hard to market.[8] Mellencamp reluctantly agreed, but the album was a commercial failure, selling only 12,000 copies. Mellencamp confessed in a 2005 interview:"That [name] was put on me by some manager. I went to New York and everybody said, 'You sound like a hillbilly.' And I said, 'Well, I am.' So that's where he came up with that name. I was totally unaware of it until it showed up on the album jacket. When I objected to it, he said, 'Well, either you're going to go for it, or we're not going to put the record out.' So that was what I had to do... but I thought the name was pretty silly."Mellencamp recorded The Kid Inside, the follow-up to Chestnut Street Incident, in 1977, but DeFries eventually decided against releasing the album, and Mellencamp was dropped from MCA records (DeFries finally released The Kid Inside in early 1983, after Mellencamp achieved stardom). Mellencamp drew interest from Rod Stewart's manager, Billy Gaff, after parting ways with DeFries and was signed onto the small Riva Records label. At Gaff's request, Mellencamp moved to London, England, for nearly a year to record, promote, and tour behind 1978's A Biography. The record wasn't released in the United States, but it yielded a top-five hit in Australia with "I Need a Lover". Riva Records added "I Need a Lover" to Mellencamp's next album released in the United States, 1979's John Cougar, where the song became a No. 28 single in late 1979. Pat Benatar recorded "I Need a Lover" on her debut album In the Heat of the Night.In 1980, Mellencamp returned with the Steve Cropper-produced Nothin' Matters and What If It Did, which yielded two Top 40 singles – "This Time" (No. 27) and "Ain't Even Done With the Night" (No. 17). "The singles were stupid little pop songs," he told Record Magazine in 1983.
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Artist: John Cougar/John Mellencamp
CD Grading: Excellent (EX)
Record Label: Original Masters/Snapper Music
Release Title: The Kid inside
Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard
Case Condition: Excellent (EX)
Inlay Condition: Excellent (EX)
Type: Album
Format: CD
Producer: John Cougar
Release Year: 1998
Language: English
Style: Pop Rock, Rock Classics
Genre: Rock, Rock & Pop
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States