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〕 | rev3 = Robert Christgau | rev3Score = B+ | rev4 = ''Rolling Stone'' | rev4Score = (favorable) | rev5 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' | rev5Score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 John Mellencamp: Album Guide )〕 | rev2 = ''Kerrang!'' | rev2Score = | noprose = yes }} ''Scarecrow'' is the eighth album by John Mellencamp. Released in September 1985, it peaked at #2 on the U.S. chart behind Heart's comeback album, Heart. The remastered version was released May 24, 2005 on Mercury/Island/UMe and includes one bonus track.〔http://www.mellencamp.com/discography.html?dd_id=37〕 This album contained three Top 10 hits, a record for a Mellencamp album: "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.," which peaked at #2 in the U.S.; "Lonely Ol' Night," which peaked at #6; and "Small Town," which also peaked at #6. "Lonely Ol' Night" also peaked at #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, his second chart-topping single on this chart. In 1989, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked ''Scarecrow'' #95 on its list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s, saying: "''Scarecrow'' consolidated the band's rugged, roots-rock thrash and the ongoing maturation of Mellencamp's lyrics." ''Rolling Stone'' also reported that band spent a month in rehearsals, playing a hundred rock and roll songs from the Sixties before going into the studio. According to the record's producer, Don Gehman, the idea was to "learn all these devices from the past and use them in a new way with John's arrangements." The overall theme of the album is the fading of the American dream in the face of corporate greed. ''Rolling Stone'' wrote that songs such as "Face of the Nation," "Minutes to Memories" and "Small Town" have a "bittersweet, reflective tone." ==Song Insights== "I wrote a song called 'Stand For Something'," Mellencamp explained to Creem Magazine in late 1985, "but I never did say what you should stand for – except your own truth. That song was supposed to be funny, too, and I hope people got that. But I think that's the key to the whole LP – suggesting that each person come to grips with their own individual truth – and try to like themselves a little bit more. Find out what you as a person are – and don't let the world drag you down. People should have respect for and believe in themselves."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Cougar Mellencamp: Working Class Hero In The Rumbleseat )〕 Mellencamp told ''Creem'' that he was "kinda disappointed" in 'R.O.C.K. (In The U.S.A.)' and 'Justice And Independence '85', saying: "I don't think people are getting the idea of what the song's about, so I must've not done a very good job."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Cougar Mellencamp: Working Class Hero In The Rumbleseat )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scarecrow (John Mellencamp album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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