SOME GIRL,
WHO'LL THRILL ME
THEN GO AWAY
(I NEED A LOVER THAT WON'T DRIVE ME CRAZY)
SOME GIRL, THAT KNOWS AH-
HEY HIT THE HIGHWAY !
A Biography
is the
second album
by the American
singer-songwriter
(credited as Johnny Cougar).
Recorded in London,
it was released
in the UK
and
Australia
by Riva Records
on
March 6, 1978.
Due to poor sales of
Mellencamp's
debut album,
Chestnut Street Incident,
A Biography
did not receive a
U.S. release
upon its 1978 debut.
Two of its tracks,
"Taxi Dancer"
and the single
"I Need a Lover,"
were also included on
his 1979 album
John Cougar,
which was released
in the U.S.
In Australia,
however,
"I Need a Lover"
became a Top 10 hit,
giving Mellencamp
his first taste of success.
The song would eventually
crack the Top 40
in the U.S.
in late 1979
when released
as a single from his
John Cougar album.
AllMusic reviewer
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
described
"I Need a Lover"
as Mellencamp's
"first good song."
A Biography,
along with all
Mellencamp's other
Riva Records/Mercury Records
albums,
were remastered
and re-released
in 2005,
marking the first time
A Biography
was released
in the United States.
Mellencamp
has often
spoken negatively
about his early albums,
and
A Biography
is no exception.
He stated in
Tim Holmes’
1986 biography:
“A Biography is so bitter.
I mean I don’t even like
to listen to it.
I can’t believe it’s me.
The songs were written
in ’76 or ’77.
The lyrics were real awful.
They were real
‘I hate you.
I hate this.’
And that’s the way
I felt at that time."
TRACKLIST
Factory
Night Slumming
Taxi Dancer
I Need a Lover
Alley of the Angels
High C Cherrie
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Let Them Run Your Lives
Goodnight
BONUS
I Need Somebody [*]
Hit The Road Jack [*]
The Whore [*]
The Man Who Sold The World [*]
All Along The Watchtower
(Live) [*]
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