“Save Some Time to Dream” is a gentle folk sermon with a dash of existential doubt. His genuine empathy for rural living and his occasional hell-raising both come through in equal measure. It was recorded at several historic locations throughout the United States. All this publication's reviews; Read full review; The New York Times . See also: better, no ]” Ei varastossa, vain jälkitoimituksena. If you go through with this, you'll be no better than the bullies who harassed you as a kid. His 2010 release, No Better Than This, was recorded live, in mono, to an Ampex 601 tape recorder from the mid-‘50s, with a single microphone. Type Album. Tuotetunnus (SKU): 21876 Osasto: CD. Aww yeah.) In October 2009, it was announced that a song recorded during the sessions for the album, entitled "Someday the Rains Will Fall", would be featured in an episode of NCIS and would appear on the album NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack – Vol. I wrote it just for this room. Mellencamp wrote over 30 songs for potential inclusion on the album but only 13 made the final cut. “No One Cares About Me” is about a guy out of work, ditched by his wife, mourning a father, a son and his only friend, over an old-timey hillbilly strut. No One Cares About Me: 9. "The same mic I was singing into is the same mic that recorded the drums at the same time," Mellencamp said on his website. 12 on its list of the best albums of 2010. As for the organic recording process of the album, Mellencamp says it's unique for this day and age. Mellencamp has said in interviews to promote the album that the song "The West End" is not about a certain part of town but rather about America, which is the west end of the world. I could have done this in my studio. The swinging “Right Behind Me” considers Jesus and the devil — “both inside of me/All the time” — with Miriam Sturm’s jazzy Hot Club fiddle. "It's not about me but about Kurt being with me—which is a whole different slant than these kinds of movies usually have", Mellencamp said. [The album is also available on vinyl. No better message or protest than pulling your child from a subpar school | Opinion. Right Behind Me: 4. The lead character in “A Graceful Fall,” a stumpy waltz, is also penniless, “sick of life” and pondering the afterlife, “if there is really one.” The dude in “Each Day of Sorrow” insists he would kill himself “if I weren’t so afraid.”. 4:20 PREVIEW She Said Don't Love Me. No Better Than This works as well as it does because it plays to Mellencamp’s strengths. Mellencamp wanted to record at the now-derelict Brunswick Records Building in Dallas, where Robert Johnson cut his final sessions in 1937, but the current owner of the building denied him permission to record there. Songfacts®: This rockabilly shuffle is the title track and lead single from American folk rock singer-songwriter John Mellencamp. Even when channeling Robert Johnson (and sharing. 1 talking about this. "[citation needed], During Mellencamp's session at Sun Studios in late July 2009, he recorded several songs including "Each Day of Sorrow", "No One Cares About Me", "The West End", and "Easter Eve", which Rolling Stone magazine's David Fricke compared to "one of Bob Dylan's talking blues". 10. On the title track, a classic Sun Records “boom-chick-boom” romp, Mellencamp runs through a list of fantasies, some quite reasonable, before concluding that “it won’t get no better than this” — however relatively fucked-up “this” might be. No Better Than This isn’t a perfectly honed set. Albert Burneko. No One Cares About Me 9. But where Trouble was a first brush with history — Mellencamp trying to make it come to him — here he meets that history on its home ground. Considering the title, Mellencamp has made a remarkably dark record. Don't Forget About Me 11. Thinking Aboiut You 7. 5. With the way they treat the money of their employees and investors, these CEOs are no better than con artists, in my opinion. Released date 17 August 2010. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. And on “Easter Eve,” a man and his 14-year-old son get hassled in a cafe, slash a motherfucker up, get thrown in jail, then walk off with the dude’s grateful wife. "John is a really great singer and I'm always happy working with him in any environment", T Bone Burnett told the Express-News. Producer T Bone Burnett rides shotgun, and the duo keep it simple: an old Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorder, a single vintage ribbon mic, a small group of empathetic players. John Mellencamp’s 25th album, No Better Than This, continues the thread of American archaeology that he began on Trouble No More, a self-produced 2003 set of traditional songs and covers. Thinking About You (3:28) 07. Mellencamp recorded the album using a 1955 Ampex portable recording machine and only one microphone, requiring all the musicians to gather together around the mic. "And everything was cut live with no overdubs or studio nothing! 5. It's warmth and presence are immediate and engulfing. We asked ourselves, 'What the fuck were we doing in the 70s and 80s, spending days and days on a drum sound, when it was all right here the whole time?'". Coming Down The Road: 8. But Mellencamp has never sounded looser or easier on a record. Losing Interest Lyrics: Losing Interest, you won't find no better than this / I swear girl, if you leave / Just let me know so I won't look dumb / When you move on... / If you leave / Just let me The West End: 3. He subsequently performed the song at several other concerts, including Farm Aid 2009 and a tribute to Myles Brand at Conseco Fieldhouse. They had 'X' marks made with electrical tape on the floor where Elvis and his musicians stood and where the instruments were placed, because Sam Philips walked around the room and decided where everything sounded best". View Comments. 4:53 PREVIEW 11 SONGS, 53 MINUTES. “Love at First Sight” imagines a relationship from back-seat grope through marriage, kids and subsequent disasters, before deciding it might be better to go home alone. 4:35 PREVIEW Feast or Famine. Sold by MEGA Media and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. 4:31 PREVIEW We Got Something. No Better Than This (2010) I’m a Mellencamp fan and I’d heard good things about this when it came out, but it was only a year or so back that I acquired it. Coming Down the Road (4:45) 08. No Better Than This: 6. 7. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it. Clumsy Ol' World (3:30) 14. Album: No Better Than This . Written by Nancy Schimelpfening on May 14, 2021 — Fact checked by Dana K. Cassell. "Someday the Rains Will Fall" is not included on No Better Than This, but it is found on Mellencamp's four-disc box set, On the Rural Route 7609. 4:24 PREVIEW You. Inside Out (Lee Greenwood album) (124 words) exact match in snippet view article Crutchfield) - 3:05 "Home Away from Home" - 2:55 "Love Don't Get No Better Than This" (Jan Crutchfield) - 3:32 "Thank You for Changing My Life" (Greenwood) Share on … View Comments. A Graceful Fall: 5. No No-Hitter Ended Better Than Jordan Zimmermann’s. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album was released on August 17, 2010. He shoots for timeless here: Aside from an allusion to an answering machine on the Woody Guthrie-style “Thinking About You,” these songs could have all been written 50 years ago or more. No One Cares About Me 9. Add to wishlist. 1. searching for No Better Than This 19 found (34 total) alternate case: no Better Than This. This doesn't take the. It was recorded at several historic locations throughout the United States. Get the Sheet Music License This Song lyrics. Members owning this album 2. The title track was the album's first single and was sent to multiple radio formats on June 28, 2010. Mitchell Layton/Getty Images ... and a no-hitter, came with the Washington Nationals back in 2013 and ’14, and didn’t include any particular postseason glory on teams that made a habit of deflating in the NLDS. They include ex-Tom Waits guitarist Mark Ribot; Jay Bellerose, whose rhythms shaped Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand; and stand-up bassist David Roe, who played with Johnny Cash at the end of his life. 4. The most indelible moments are straight-up funny. Thinking About You 7. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for No Better Than This - Won-G on AllMusic - 2001 8. artistfacts. It was an important stop on the Underground Railroad and central to the civil rights movement. It’s musical storytelling for hard times: far-fetched, violent, sexy, played for laughs. Clumsy Ol’ World These are real songs being performed by real musicians—an unheard-of process in today's world. Sign up for our newsletter. The stories that have come out of the sessions are extraordinary. 11. John Mellencamp ’s 25th album, No Better Than This, continues the thread of American archaeology that he began on Trouble No More, a self-produced 2003 set … On … We want to hear from you! Markus had previously directed the music video for Mellencamp's 2001 single "Peaceful World". The album was released on August 17, 2010, on the Rounder Records label.[15]. "[citation needed]. Écoutez No Better Than This par John Mellencamp sur Deezer. Mellencamp wrote one song specifically for Room 414 at the Gunter Hotel, which is the exact room where Johnson recorded in November 1936. Not any better than (someone or something); just as bad or inadequate as (someone or something). He has also completed a painting entitled "Save Some Time to Dream". He debuted the first of those, "Save Some Time to Dream", on May 17, 2009, at a political fundraiser for President Barack Obama at the Westin Hotel in downtown Indianapolis. "The fact he chose these historic locations is a big plus. Mellencamp and T-Bone Burnett cut the album while on tour supporting, Life Death Love and Freedom, Mellencamp's … Mellencamp gave the first live performance of the song "Save Some Time to Dream" for a concert audience on July 10, 2009, in Dayton, Ohio. The album's first single, "No Better Than This", was released to radio stations on June 28, 2010. Tracklist. They can be wry … Each Day of Sorrow (2:36) 12. RELEASED AUGUST 3, 2009 ℗ 2007 BILLY VALENTINE. 7:19 PREVIEW A Heart Is a House for Love. It's warmth and presence are immediate and engulfing. The title track was the album's first single and was sent to multiple radio formats on June 28, 2010. Here is the first video for the title track from John's No Better Than This album. The first thing that grabs the listener about John Mellencamp's No Better Than This is its sound: mono -- recorded live to an Ampex 601 tape recorder circa 1955, with a single microphone without mixing or overdubs. Guest columnist. Each Day Of Sorrow 12. by John Mellencamp. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album was released on August 17, 2010. Regarding this session, Mellencamp told the magazine, "[T Bone] and I were laughing. © Copyright 2021 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Mellencamp showed "It's About You" before his performance each night during his 2010–2011 No Better Than This theater tour, which began on October 29, 2010, in his hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. Each Day Of Sorrow 12. No Better Than This 6. Route, No Better Than. listener to the crime scene. Coming Down The Road 8. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about John Mellencamp* - No Better Than This at Discogs. Don't Forget About Me: … Also available in the iTunes … Easter Eve 13. No Better Than This. 4:09 PREVIEW Cool Rain. But I want to do it this way, and if I can't do what I want at this point, I'm not going to do it. Don’t Forget About Me 11. Love At First Sight 10. The first thing that grabs the listener about John Mellencamp's No Better Than This is its sound: mono -- recorded live to an Ampex 601 tape recorder circa 1955, with a single microphone without mixing or overdubs. 12:03 PM EDT on May 11, 2021 . Mellencamp’s songs show a writer still on a hot streak after 2008’s Burnett-produced Life, Death, Love and Freedom, arguably the singer-songwriter’s best LP since his Eighties heyday. No Better Than This (3:12) 06. I'm through digging a ditch". 4:27 PREVIEW Never Again. They fit him perfectly. Qty: Lisää ostoskoriin. Save Some Time To Dream: 2. The album was recorded in mono, the same manner as the classic folk and blues recordings of the 1930s and 1940s. No Better Than This 6. It doesn’t get more timeless, or American, than that. No One Cares About Me (6:11) 09. I gave it a couple of cursory listens and then filed it away as a subject for future investigation. Love at First Sight (4:37) 10. No Better Than This proves that good songs need very little to communicate instructive narratives and complex emotions, and that primitive recording methods are still sometimes the best ones. Music Style Pop Rock. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Performs Trouble No More Live at Town Hall, NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack – Vol. Mellencamp's 2009 summer tour of minor league baseball parks with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan and the recording sessions for this album were filmed by renowned photographer Kurt Markus, who released a documentary titled John Mellencamp: It's About You that premiered in New York City and Los Angeles in January 2012 and was released on DVD and Blu-ray in June 2012. 9. 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A set of old-school originals recorded in resonant settings (Sun Studio in Memphis; the First African Baptist Church in Savannah; a hotel room in San Antonio where Robert Johnson cut some classic sides), No Better shows Mellencamp channeling spirits and stepping into period styles. Thinking About You: 7. No better than this We got the sunshine on our face Moonshine on our lips Well around here This is as good as it gets We got the summertime with my friends Everybody take a sip Well it don't get Yeah it don't get better than this (Don't get better than this. No Better Than This proves that good songs need very little to communicate instructive narratives and complex emotions, and that primitive recording methods are still sometimes the best ones. Easter Eve 13. Sun Studio, from a completely different angle, was also important to the civil rights movement and, from another angle, so were Robert Johnson's recordings at the Gunter. "Everything was set up exactly as Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley recorded. "I am done being a rock star", Mellencamp said. We got five songs here last night. But No Better Than This is a step beyond his best work, revelatory and free, the sound of a man who’s unshackled from commercial considerations or outside influences. The song was sent to multiple radio formats on June 28, 2010. The first thing that grabs the listener about John Mellencamp's No Better Than This is its sound: mono -- recorded live to an Ampex 601 tape recorder circa 1955, with a single microphone without mixing or overdubs. De très nombreux exemples de phrases traduites contenant "no better than" – Dictionnaire français-anglais et moteur de recherche de traductions françaises. Love At First Sight 10. No Better Than This is an album by American singer-songwriter and musician John Mellencamp, produced by T Bone Burnett, that was released on August 17, 2010.The album was recorded at several historic locations throughout the United States. Bill Mick. But as usual, Mellencamp is at his best when he turns hardscrabble struggle into damn-the-torpedoes rock & roll. No Better Than This. "I have no interest in that, in having the biggest concerts. Rolling Stone placed No Better Than This at No. He also told Rolling Stone in July 2009 that he is not concerned whether or not there's a large audience for such a raw, simple record. I have only one interest: to have fun while we're doing this and maybe have something that somebody might discover. And despite the heavy blues influence that Burnett brings to the project, it’s still obvious that Mellencamp has the heart of a folk singer. Mellencamp said that the album is "as American folk as I've ever been". 2. No Better Than This is the 21st album by American singer-songwriter and musician John Mellencamp. Album Name No Better Than This. Complete your John Mellencamp* collection. Coming Down The Road 8. Want more Rolling Stone? He told the San Antonio Express-News, "It's called 'Right Behind Me' or 'Right Behind Us,' I haven't decided yet. The First African Baptist Church was started in 1775. Labels Rounder Records. Real music, for real people!". 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