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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Music: CDs | | | Artist: | Mellencamp, John | | Release Date: | Sep 07, 1993 | | | Format: | CD | | Record Label: | Mercury | | | Genre: | Rock | | UPC: | 731451808821 | | | Sub-Genre: | -- | | Album Type: | Full-Length CD | | | | | Condition: | Used | | | |
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| Track listing | 1. When Jesus Left Birmingham
2. Junior
3. Human Wheels
4. Beige To Beige
5. Case 795 (The Family)
6. Suzanne And The Jewels
7. Sweet Evening Breeze
8. What If I Came Knocking
9. French Shoes
10. To The River
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Lisa Germano, Sounds Of Blackness | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel: John Mellencamp (vocals, guitar); David Grissom (guitar, mandolin, bass); Mike Wanchic (guitar, dobro, dulcimer, background vocals); Malcolm Burn (guitar, harmonica, organ, synthesizer); Toby Myers (guitar, keyboards, bass, background vocals); John Cascella (penny whistle, accordion, organ, melodica, background vocals); Pat Peterson (accordion, maracas, background vocals); Kenny Aronoff (drums, percussion).
Producers: John Mellencamp, Malcolm Burn, David Leonard, Michael Wanchic.
Recorded at Bellmont Mall, Belmont, Indiana.
On his previous albums, John Mellencamp always infused his heartland rock with a hopefulness and party spirit that kept his paeans to the trials of the working man from becoming bleak. Not so here--if those discs were gritty rock & roll efforts, then HUMAN WHEELS is the artist's dark, confessional singer/songwriter record. Here swaggering, power-chord-driven bombast and anthemic choruses are often replaced by gently strummed mandolin, organ swells, and whispered, elegant verse. There are also hints of things to come--"Junior" and "French Shoes" are driven by dance rhythms that foreshadow the electronic beats of MR. HAPPY GO LUCKY. "What If I Came Knocking," on the other hand, is all thrashing Crazy Horse-style guitars and scary imagery. An album that is by turns disconcerting and deeply moving, HUMAN WHEELS finds John Mellencamp still rocking, but in a subdued and intensely personal manner.
| | Editorial reviews | 4 Stars - Excellent - ...Mellencamp's richest and most fully realized album since SCARECROW (1985)....Within these songs of middle-aged malaise, Mellencamp may not know what it means, but he knows exactly how it feels...
Rolling Stone Magazine (09/30/1993)
Highly Recommended - ...HUMAN WHEELS is just another John Mellencamp record, and it's a rewarding one...it's fortifying stuff...
Spin (11/01/1993)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...[Mellencamp] presents himself in a more lyric, mythic mode on HUMAN WHEELS...full of fairly memorable songs...done with a hint of acceptable strangeness...
Q Magazine (10/01/1993)
...there's something dark and unshaven about [HUMAN WHEELS]...the world may be in a sorry state, but by working together with such obvious joy, these musicians demonstrate how things ought to be... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (09/16/1993)
Performance: Familiar / Recording: Good - ...[Mellencamp's] returned to strolling down Main Street, USA, squinting warily at life as most people live it...a splendid return to form. John Mellencamp is back home again....
Stereo Review (12/01/1993)
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