“Let’s try to improve the quality of the food that we eat, the air that we breathe and the people that we are.” It's a graphic novel song." "L.U.V" stands for "Let Us Vote.“We’ve been slugging since 1985 and let’s keep slugging,” said Mellencamp. In the liner notes to his 2010 box set On the Rural Route 7609, Mellencamp said of "L.U.V.": "It's kind of a comic book song, but in a cartoonish way. Mellencamp says he and his bandmates "looked back at Human Wheels and said, 'How can we make it more empty?' What you get when you do that is the haunting type of feeling that you won't get with lush productions like Human Wheels and The Lonesome Jubilee, which were big-production records." 'Hurts So Good' had one guitar, bass, and drums, and I think one tambourine." Others have just one guitar, bass, and drums, which I haven't done since American Fool. "All the vocals are first or second takes, and half the songs don't even have bass parts. "This is as naked a rock record as you're going to hear", Mellencamp told Billboard's Jim Bessman in an Apstory. So when Me'Shell showed up, I said, 'Hey, let's cut that old Van Morrison song!'" Even some of their parents were too young to hear it!" As for Ndegeocello's appearance, Mellencamp said: "I didn't know what I wanted to sing with her, but I just liked her spirit, so I asked her to come in. "The ironic thing is that young people think I wrote that song. "'Wild Night' has always been one of my favorite songs", Mellencamp told the Boston Globe in 1994.
Spin Magazine named Dance Naked the 20th best album of 1994. The re-mastered edition includes an acoustic version of "Wild Night" as a bonus track. 13 on the Billboard 200 and produced several music videos: two versions for "Wild Night," another for the title track "Dance Naked," and unreleased videos for "L.U.V." and "Another Sunny Day 12/25."ĭance Naked was re-mastered and re-released on July 19, 2005, along with three other Mellencamp albums. 1 on the Adult Contemporary List for 8 weeks.
3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and charted at No. The song featured Me'shell Ndegeocello on a duet with Mellencamp as well as the prominent bass lead. The most notable accomplishment was the largely successful single " Wild Night", a cover of the 1971 song by Van Morrison. As a result, he wrote several purposely radio-friendly songs and recorded them within the span of 14 days at his Belmont Mall recording studio in Belmont, Indiana, intending to show the lack of effort required to produce the type of album they were asking for.Īlthough Mellencamp claims that Dance Naked was merely an easy output to give the record company what they wanted, the album was still well received and earned a Platinum certification by the RIAA. The album was released in response to the record company's accusations that Mellencamp's previous album, Human Wheels, didn't "fit the format." Mellencamp was irritated with this remark, feeling that none of his albums ever fit the format. 29: 07 (Standard Edition) 32:26 (2005 Remastered Expanded Edition)ĭance Naked is the thirteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp released on June 21, 1994.
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