Nothin' Matters and What If It Did

Nothin' Matters And What If It Did
Studio album by John Cougar
Released September 16, 1980 (1980-09-16)
Recorded 1980
Genre Rock
Length 35:59
Label Riva
Producer Steve Cropper
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John Cougar chronology
John Cougar
(1979)		 Nothin' Matters And What If It Did
(1980)		 American Fool
(1982)

Nothin' Matters And What If It Did is John Mellencamp's fifth album, under his pseudonym of John Cougar. It includes the moderate hits "Ain't Even Done With The Night," which reached No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "This Time," which reached No. 27.

Mellencamp wrote "To M.G. (Wherever She May Be)" in remembrance of his high school girlfriend, whose name was Margie (aka M.G.).[1] Edith Massey is the woman on the cover. Of Massey's appearance on the cover, Mellencamp told Rolling Stone in late 1980: "I was looking for a typical heavy woman to convey a lower-middle-class way of living."[2]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by John Mellencamp, except where noted.

  1. "Hot Night in a Cold Town" (Geoffrey Cushing-Murray, Richard Littlefield) - 3:47
  2. "Ain't Even Done with the Night" – 4:38
  3. "Don't Misunderstand Me" – 3:33
  4. "This Time" – 4:18
  5. "Make Me Feel" – 4:04
  6. "To M.G. (Wherever She May Be)" – 4:50
  7. "Tonight" – 3:17
  8. "Cry Baby" – 0:25
  9. "Wild Angel" – 3:13
  10. "Peppermint Twist" – 0:28
  11. "Cheap Shot" – 3:00
  12. "Latest Game" (2005 re-issue bonus track) – 3:56

Charts

Album
Year Chart Position
1981 Billboard 200 37
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1980 "This Time" Billboard Hot 100 27
1981 "Ain't Even Done with the Night" Billboard Hot 100 17
1981 "Ain't Even Done with the Night" Billboard Top Tracks 44

Personnel

References

  1. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8H63rO_vQ8
  2. ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QIAgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LKcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3686,4718730&dq=john+cougar+nothing+matters&hl=en
John Mellencamp
Studio albums
Chestnut Street Incident (1976)  · The Kid Inside (1977)  · A Biography (1978) · John Cougar (1979)  · Nothin' Matters and What If It Did (1980)  · American Fool (1982) · Uh-Huh (1983)  · Scarecrow (1985)  · The Lonesome Jubilee (1987)  · Big Daddy (1989)  · Whenever We Wanted (1991)  · Human Wheels (1993)  · Dance Naked (1994)  · Mr. Happy Go Lucky (1996) · John Mellencamp (1998) · Rough Harvest (1999)  · Cuttin' Heads (2001) · Trouble No More (2003) · Freedom's Road (2007) · Life, Death, Love and Freedom (2008) · No Better Than This (2010)
Live albums
Compilations
The Best That I Could Do 1978–1988 (1997)  · Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits (2004)  · 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of John Mellencamp (2007)  · On the Rural Route 7609 (2010)
Singles
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