The Kid Inside

The Kid Inside
Studio album by John Cougar
Released January 27, 1983
Recorded 1977
Genre Rock
Label MainMan
Producer John Cougar
John Cougar chronology

American Fool
(1982)		 The Kid Inside
(1983)		 Uh-huh
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [2]

The Kid Inside is an album recorded by John Mellencamp in 1977 for MCA Records. It was intended to be the follow-up to his debut album Chestnut Street Incident, but MCA declined to release the album and dropped Mellencamp from the label. The recordings remained on the shelf until 1983 when Tony DeFries, Mellencamp's former manager, released the album on his own MainMan label. DeFries was attempting to capitalize on the recent success of Mellencamp's breakout album American Fool, which had sold over two million copies and spawned two #1 singles.[3] This was Mellencamp's last album to be released under the name John Cougar. His next album, Uh-Huh, would be released under the name John Cougar Mellencamp.

Track listing

All songs written by John Mellencamp, except where noted.

  1. "Kid Inside" – 5:32
  2. "Take What You Want" – 3:14
  3. "Cheap Shot" – 3:53
  4. "Sidewalk and Streetlights" – 4:08
  5. "R. Gang" – 2:30
  6. "American Son" – 4:52
  7. "Gearhead" – 2:38
  8. "Young Genocides" – 2:26
  9. "Too Young to Live" – 7:45
  10. "Survive" – 4:09
  11. "The Whore" – 1:21
  12. "The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie) – 2:27

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Rolling Stone Album Guide
  3. ↑ Cromelin, Richard. "Cougar LP Comes Out of Closet" Los Angeles Times March 5, 1983: E1