Good grief. These lyrics resonate so much right now. One of my favorite guitar riffs ever and some of the greatest guitar work period. That drumming...
I don´t know if the best, but for sure TOP 5 with Jeff Porcaro, the one of Michael Jackson (dont remember his name), Dave Weckl and you pick the 5th one.
Yes. This is album is a keeper. Great tunes and great drumming.Well the trumpet solo was inspired. I remember when John disbanded and Kenny Aronoff was miffed. Best thing to happen to him. He moved on and has kicked ass ever since. Kenny's drumming drives this album. No good bands without good drummers. Ever.
I have always loved John Mellencamp and all his music. Kenny Aronoff is by far one of my very favorite drummers whom has played with some of the very best acts out there.
The progression and lyrics of the song are timeless. The beat is spectacularly unique and the riff and base are intense drivers. A gem in every respect- probably his best song.
Yes. I agree this is a fantastic record. I remember buying the CD at Tower Records in 1991 and enjoyed all the songs on the Album. Yes, Grunge was on it's way when "Whenever We Wanted" by JCM was released, but I still liked his album. It took awhile for me to accept the change in rock music in 1991-1992, but eventually I grew to like an extremely different sound in a band called Nirvana. However, I still remain a JCM fan.
The lead-off track to what I consider THE BEST album in JM's catalog (Human Wheels is #2 for me). The critics hated it in '91 and the whole industry was undergoing a rather tumultuous upheaval so it's not a big surprise at it's abysmal sales figures. Kenny Aronoff kills on this album from one end to the other. The edgy tenor of the material and the conviction of the performances are what really make this an important piece of this man's remarkable career. This ain't the "let's sit around the campfire and sing Kum-by-ya" kind of stuff...which is an encapsulated appraisal of most of his previous recordings. Johnny grew a set and it was a ballsy move to release "Whenever we Wanted" into the market at such a point in time. With hindsight? Sadly, it's still as relevant today as it was 23 years ago. It is what I consider to be the most "complete" album he has ever released. Focus, vision, and solid writing from one end to the other...all killer, NO filler. Human Wheels is close but "French Shoes" (although it stands on musicianship) still falls short on the aspect of relevance. Off to other tracks...Peace, out!.
I got this on cassette about the time it came out. I think it rocked then and still rocks now. Dave Grissom was a great addition!!! Let me adf just as relevant then just as relevant now
MY personal favorite Mellencamp album too. I love the songs and the production. The drums and guitars sound righteous! For whatever reason Mellencamp himself doesn't think much of this album though.
Critics did not hate *Whenever We Wanted* it's just coming off of amazing albums like *Big Daddy* & *The Lonesome Jubilee* it didn't impress as much and no songs other than "Get A Leg Up" were viewed as commercial singles. The album still went Platinum.
Love Mellencamp.!! I am 2yrs older from KY! Have taken grand daughters to his concerts in Nobles ville. They learned words to many songs!! Really cute to hear a preteen sing. Holding on to sixteen long as you can OR Let the Bible belt come and save my soul!! Priceless memories!!!
Lonesome Jubilee was best tour in my opinion. Even though John would disagree. He says best stuff is his latest...I went to Sad Clowns and Hill Billies.Nothing like old days but He is still the best ever! I think he is one of greatest songwriters to ever live.
The brilliant lyrics and tune makes this one of John's best songs. just one among hundreds though ..wish he'd play UK again prefer in Scotland. loads of fans here .. GB
Easily one of Mellencamps best songs. They made a great video here as well. Too bad it was in the dying era of video as a medium. You can tell these guys love playing this song. Especially the drummer. That guy probably prays each night they'll put this in the set when they are out on the road. Just good stuff all around
I was in a daiquiri bar and this was on! It’s been a long time since I heard it. Great song!! Although John Cougar hated that name and his early stuff, this is his stuff!! I like all of it!
Saw him in concert for this tour. did a great job and the drummer gets a heck of a workout. But every word means just as much today as it did back then maybe even more. Not a thing has changed.
I Love him , these song's , all came true if it was not for him I would of lost my farm. I got to sit in front row at The Pittsburgh PA show 2010 I think , lol. hes a wonderful man and his paintings are going to be on display.
Human wheels was easily my favorite album fromhe has a lot of great albums nobody puts on a show like John mellencamp but I think human wheels is is best album
I discovered J.M. and Tom Petty at the same time. 1992. I was 20 and neither of them were very well-known here in Spain. But Whenever we wanted and Into the great wide open sounded great to me and they are still. I tried to get more good records from both artists and I got lots from Petty but I can´t say the same about Mellencamp. This is the only record I really like but it´s so good that I know I´ll keep on listening till the end of my bloody life.
I met this ICON in Memphis at a bar 35 ish years ago, I think it was called TRIVIA. The dj announced that John and his band were hanging out "in the house." I am a HUGE FAN. I approached him just asking to say hi. He was an asshole and NOT FRIENDLY. HOWEVER, i love his music and twice paid way too much to see him in concert. SOMETIMES assholes are so talented you just go with it.
he's been in Nashville for about 20 plus years now seems like every time you hear a newer country song coming out of Nashville Kenny has become just like Jerry Douglas on dobro..and a whole lot more one of the most in-demand session drummers ever. not to mention get-togethers people like Paul Shaffer if they're in charge of running a band call ankeney a lot of others do Don was is done it many times for get-togethers in general he has so much requests who would have thought that back in the early days of the mellencamp band
The intro smashes into your mental senses like a car that runs through a red light in there lane after you've started through your green light to go forward.....
Every sentence in this song is as relevant today as it was 20 years ago when it was first released...scary and sad at the same time...nothing has improved in the past 20 years...he should re-release this song.
One of my favorite Mellencamp songs.
these lyrics WOW . this should be over 50 million views. Thank you John. You are amazing.
John is a Democrat and Trump hater. He really is amazing! lol
Good grief. These lyrics resonate so much right now. One of my favorite guitar riffs ever and some of the greatest guitar work period. That drumming...
Kenny Aronoff is beating those drums like they owe him money on this track. The best session drummer in the business, bar none.
I don´t know if the best, but for sure TOP 5 with Jeff Porcaro, the one of Michael Jackson (dont remember his name), Dave Weckl and you pick the 5th one.
Exactly!
Him or Paul McCartney’s drummer
Keith Moon .... the Who 🥁
Stewart Copeland ....The Police 🥁
Jellybean Johnson is highly talented with The Time
Yes. This is album is a keeper. Great tunes and great drumming.Well the trumpet solo was inspired. I remember when
John disbanded and Kenny Aronoff was miffed. Best thing to happen to him. He moved on and has kicked ass ever since.
Kenny's drumming drives this album. No good bands without good drummers. Ever.
Some of the best lyrics ever written. It still rings true tiday and that Incredible Riff too !
John Mellencamp is just the best American singer ever. That´s all we have to say
Pat Benatar is Great & Warpaint
song is 25 years old and lyrics are 10 times more relevant today
So Right
Kinda proves a point. The more things change the more they stay the same
Indeed
Wow! Almost 30 years old and just as relevant now as it was in 1991 🤠
Even more now ...! 👍
I have always loved John Mellencamp and all his music. Kenny Aronoff is by far one of my very favorite drummers whom has played with some of the very best acts out there.
This song rocks!! We need some of what he's saying today.
I agree !!
Haven't heard this tune at all on classic rock radio in Chicago. My question is, why???
The progression and lyrics of the song are timeless.
The beat is spectacularly unique and the riff and base are intense drivers.
A gem in every respect- probably his best song.
Yes. I agree this is a fantastic record. I remember buying the CD at Tower Records in 1991 and enjoyed all the songs on the Album. Yes, Grunge was on it's way when "Whenever We Wanted" by JCM was released, but I still liked his album. It took awhile for me to accept the change in rock music in 1991-1992, but eventually I grew to like an extremely different sound in a band called Nirvana. However, I still remain a JCM fan.
The lead-off track to what I consider THE BEST album in JM's catalog (Human Wheels is #2 for me). The critics hated it in '91 and the whole industry was undergoing a rather tumultuous upheaval so it's not a big surprise at it's abysmal sales figures. Kenny Aronoff kills on this album from one end to the other. The edgy tenor of the material and the conviction of the performances are what really make this an important piece of this man's remarkable career.
This ain't the "let's sit around the campfire and sing Kum-by-ya" kind of stuff...which is an encapsulated appraisal of most of his previous recordings.
Johnny grew a set and it was a ballsy move to release "Whenever we Wanted" into the market at such a point in time.
With hindsight? Sadly, it's still as relevant today as it was 23 years ago.
It is what I consider to be the most "complete" album he has ever released. Focus, vision, and solid writing from one end to the other...all killer, NO filler.
Human Wheels is close but "French Shoes" (although it stands on musicianship) still falls short on the aspect of relevance.
Off to other tracks...Peace, out!.
Terrie Ron Schock Like many it was swallowed up by Grunge
well said. fk yeah!
I got this on cassette about the time it came out. I think it rocked then and still rocks now. Dave Grissom was a great addition!!! Let me adf just as relevant then just as relevant now
MY personal favorite Mellencamp album too. I love the songs and the production. The drums and guitars sound righteous! For whatever reason Mellencamp himself doesn't think much of this album though.
Critics did not hate *Whenever We Wanted* it's just coming off of amazing albums like *Big Daddy* & *The Lonesome Jubilee* it didn't impress as much and no songs other than "Get A Leg Up" were viewed as commercial singles. The album still went Platinum.
Love Mellencamp.!! I am 2yrs older from KY! Have taken grand daughters to his concerts in Nobles ville. They learned words to many songs!! Really cute to hear a preteen sing. Holding on to sixteen long as you can OR Let the Bible belt come and save my soul!! Priceless memories!!!
The lyrics of that last verse absolutely slay me to this day. I get goosebumps every damn time.
The real ones get it
great track, great album, without doubt my favourite Mellecamp album
This guy is timeless and ageless. I saw him at the Sony centre in Toronto and he was absolutely amazing.
an amazing album from start to finish.
awesome album for sure
Best version of this song !
Mellencamp is Most Definitely my all time favorite!! This is a KICKASS ALBUM!
My favorite JCM song!!
Always thought this was a great concert opener
Kenny Aronoff is a freaking beast on the drums 🥁🥁
What does the C stand for? As in JCM
@@caprise-music6722 Cougar as he was know as John Cougar Mellencamp & then just went by John Mellencamp
Either way the man is a brilliant songwriter
This is an awesome, and underrated, Mellencamp song.
Love John and all his music and how this song relates to todays time and yet this is a classic!
A bit like Barry McGuire. EVE OF DESTRUCTION 😢❤AMEN
fantastic rips...great Kenny an artist on the battery
Fantastico John!! Questa canzone e stupenda!!!😅😄🤩😍😘buon natale!!🌟🌲⛄
Love John, a man with meaning !
Lonesome Jubilee is still my fave - every track
Lonesome Jubilee was best tour in my opinion. Even though John would disagree. He says best stuff is his latest...I went to Sad Clowns and Hill Billies.Nothing like old days but He is still the best ever! I think he is one of greatest songwriters to ever live.
Awesome song! Loved it then, love it now. Lyrics perfect still today.
And 12 years later!
absolutely have always loved this song. Love and happpiness is what it's about. oh yes!
Make no mistakes, Kenny Aronoff is a force to be reckoned with!
John Mellencamp is an icon!
The brilliant lyrics and tune makes this one of John's best songs. just one among hundreds though ..wish he'd play UK again prefer in Scotland. loads of fans here .. GB
Just listened to Jackie Brown and now this. He’s the Bob Dylan of my generation. A giant talent with a conscious!
Mellencamp is a Democrat that knows the dangers of a wannabe dictator like Trump. Of course he has a conscious.
wow cool track the funky guitar and lethal bass is cooking nice work guys that tune should have radio airplay
Saw JM at Wembley Arena in 1992 - CLASS. Loved the geezer from the early 80's. Genious X
Great John...UR a legend buddy..
I was kinda thiking that history repeats its self so songs like this will always be relivent (sp). 20 yrs from now this song will still rock
Easily one of Mellencamps best songs. They made a great video here as well. Too bad it was in the dying era of video as a medium. You can tell these guys love playing this song. Especially the drummer. That guy probably prays each night they'll put this in the set when they are out on the road. Just good stuff all around
damn what a great song - great video with John avoiding Close Ups and letting his drummer go crazy
Classic tune, John's singing with Kenney's drumming, love it ........
Watch Rick Beato's interview with Kenny. He explains the story of how he came up with the beat.
@@YaoEspirito thanks for the heads up I will for sure ..........
I'll take mellencamp over springsteen any day! To me his lyrics instruments(music) compositions have more of a soul edge
WHAT a song!
Awesome sunglasses. Haha.
One of his best on top of so many anthems of acoustic Americana.
I was in a daiquiri bar and this was on! It’s been a long time since I heard it. Great song!! Although John Cougar hated that name and his early stuff, this is his stuff!! I like all of it!
Freakin LOVE this song
Saw him in concert for this tour. did a great job and the drummer gets a heck of a workout. But every word means just as much today as it did back then maybe even more. Not a thing has changed.
Este disco es maravilloso ,lo tengo en mi colección .altamente recomendable de principio a fin !;
My fave John song!!
Great album. 👍
best lead-off song to any album in the history of the music buisness
U still tha man John!!
Best Melloncamp song period
I Love him , these song's , all came true if it was not for him I would of lost my farm. I got to sit in front row at The Pittsburgh PA show 2010 I think , lol. hes a wonderful man and his paintings are going to be on display.
Human wheels was easily my favorite album fromhe has a lot of great albums nobody puts on a show like John mellencamp but I think human wheels is is best album
This man carried the torch when Bruce was singing country tunes.
I didn't know this song had a video, thank you for posting it.
this song may well be applied today in East Europe, Midle East and...and..and..where are we heading..?
Such a creative drum arrangement on this tune - Aronoff to the rescue once again... \m/
The obstinate sound of these power cords are an antidote for all the little compromises I make going along to get along!!!!
love this song. one of my favorites
Masterpiece
I discovered J.M. and Tom Petty at the same time. 1992. I was 20 and neither of them were very well-known here in Spain. But Whenever we wanted and Into the great wide open sounded great to me and they are still. I tried to get more good records from both artists and I got lots from Petty but I can´t say the same about Mellencamp. This is the only record I really like but it´s so good that I know I´ll keep on listening till the end of my bloody life.
Get Mellencamps Rain On The Scarecrow album. Classic.
Keep on rocking in the free world !!!
Bad ass!! Rockin Ron...
Killer Riff!
....have forgotten our names.....
2022 Every single word still applies!
This song is worth the wait after those crappy adverts. Thanks once again VEVO.
I met this ICON in Memphis at a bar 35 ish years ago, I think it was called TRIVIA. The dj announced that John and his band were hanging out "in the house." I am a HUGE FAN. I approached him just asking to say hi. He was an asshole and NOT FRIENDLY. HOWEVER, i love his music and twice paid way too much to see him in concert. SOMETIMES assholes are so talented you just go with it.
It's Rocks this album
Rest in peace Barry and John from Seymour. You both are missed.
Underrated rock.
God Bless America
This Song Rings So Very True Today as It Did In 1991. Just Listen To The Lyrics
And things only got worse........ This outrageous, angry song that bleeds despairity still stands.
I really like the live version of this they did on MTV
2021 still true...... when will things change for the better?
Best song he ever did.
John you are too cool.
Great song
good man i constantly blow my speakers and my old cassette gets chewed up with my 80s rock tapes!!!!!!!
BTW, best song on this record, IMO.
Anyone else hear this exact same storyline happening right now in 2024?
Yea
This message is f*cking relevant on 1. January 2024
Kenny was the best the drummer he got now lived in my neighborhood Anderson in
he's been in Nashville for about 20 plus years now seems like every time you hear a newer country song coming out of Nashville Kenny has become just like Jerry Douglas on dobro..and a whole lot more one of the most in-demand session drummers ever. not to mention get-togethers people like Paul Shaffer if they're in charge of running a band call ankeney a lot of others do Don was is done it many times for get-togethers in general he has so much requests who would have thought that back in the early days of the mellencamp band
Best song and scare crow John's the shot
La sua musica è sempre con me,
ovunque vada con la mia moto mi segue....
Circondata da tutti i colori del mondo.
[ In Printing e la mia profondità@
di MAURIZIO SPAGNA (testo)
©2016
Pretty heavy for JCM🤘 I dig it👍
Toby is a total bad ass on the bass. He should be on the Mt Rushmore of bassist.
The intro smashes into your mental senses like a car that runs through a red light in there lane after you've started through your green light to go forward.....
Every sentence in this song is as relevant today as it was 20 years ago when it was first released...scary and sad at the same time...nothing has improved in the past 20 years...he should re-release this song.
Meravigliosa
@jtmichaelson Well said. I miss Kenny very much in John's lineup
very underrated song. that's why I love listening this to one every few years. timeless.
@jazzmanEE Don't think so...the lyrics still apply...maybe more now than they did then...
THAT IS RIGHT MAN
Most important, Mellencamp loves JESUS!
JCMs best rocker
@jazzmanee If by outdated you mean theres no hip hop in it, then yeah, its outdated. But I prefer it this way! Trumpet solo anytime over hip hop!