John Mellencamp sing from the heart about the heartland of our country. His songs give insight into small town farming communities, teenage angst, divorce, dringking, and on and on. He lives in the land where he sings about, so he's not some transplant who has the outsider's view of mid-America.

These songs on this collection are his greatest hits. Every one of them has received airplay on popular and rock radio stations. Mellencamp is not one of those artists with two or three bonafide hits and seven songs no one has ever heard of on a greats hits album. His songs are genuine and belong on such a collection. Ideally there should be a box set that allows some of the B sides of songs to get some renewed exposure to a greater audience.

This collection is very good and will leave you humming one or two of the songs throughout the day.

it is rare that you find a cd that you like every track on it, this is the rare exception, this is a great cd. you can listen to it over and over again, would recommend to any mellencamp fan or any 80"s fan

A good cd to remember those sweet 80's and the hot summer night when I was a teenager. John Mellencamp was a hit machine and this "best of" contains his most known songs. If you are a casual fan like me, this album is made for you.

I truly don't like John Mellencamp. His music was always some of the most offensive classic rock that came from the 80's because he hardly ever had any interesting musical ideas. It was always straight-forward, predictable commercial country rock/hard rock that never really did anything for me personally. This collection of tracks captures every single overplayed moment in all its glory. A disc you truly don't need to own because even today you can turn your radio on to ANY classic rock station and find most of the songs on the disc featured there, making this disc entirely pointless. The songs I particularly dislike would be "Pink Houses", "Lonely Ol' Night" and "Small Town". "Jack and Diane" HAS to be one of the most overplayed songs of all-time. It was great the first time you heard SOME of these songs, but not anymore. Overexposure can ruin a musicians career in the long run.

This album is exactly what the title implies, a collection of Mellencamp's singles recorded during his first decade. For what it is the album is a decent enough collection. You get no album cuts here, just the big hits and as the title implies there is nothing from any of his albums after 1988. So, there is a lot missing here. If you are just looking for the hits this is ok, but Mellencamp's work goes much deeper than this.