I'm still not quite there yet, I don't think. (I've also never heard his third album, Biography, which came out in the UK and Australia in 1978 - has anybody?) Anyway, Kid's Wiki page lists two tracks at the end that aren't on my vinyl copy, "The Whore" (1:21) and a cover of Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World" (maybe on the CD?) And the sound quality on mine is extremely muddy - sounds like a demo tape recorded in a garage, so it takes several listens for the songs to sink in. Recorded in 1977 (when Coug was 25) for MCA, supposedly, but never came out then was going to be the followup to The Chestnut Street Incident from '76, which I've never heard. Cover looks pretty darn bath-house porny.
My copy is on MainMan (his manager Tony DeFries' label), distributed by IDS London, 1982. (Unless you count Phil Lynott for the first 30 Thin Lizzy albums.) I forget where John Cafferty came from. Ireland's would be the BOOMTOWN Rats, circa *Tonic for the Troops* anyway. Delaware's would be George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers (excellent baseball jerseys, by the way.) Long Island's would be the Good Rats, who I heard a song by once.
Cleveland's would be the Michael Staney Band. Pittsburgh's Cougar, by the way, would be Iron City Houserockers. But the E Street Band? Get a drummer, guys. I mean, to HELL with Springsteen, you know? Get a clue, Bruce! (Actually, that's mean I really like Bruce's debut album, you know, the rap one where he was sorta like Beck but better, except for that one song that sounded like Thin Lizzy.) And he did some great stuff later, too, I suppose, at least in the '70s. Yeah, Bob Seger (who also started totally indie label punk rock) is a MUCH closer comparison than Springsteen, anyway.
".Johnny Couger's first releases were on Gulcher records, making him label-mates with the Gizmos, Dow Jones and the Industrials, MX-80 and the Social Climbers. (Last year's *Trouble No More* was his best ALBUM since '87, though.) Maybe a comp of his pre-'70s stuff would work too damn, it's been decades since I listened to *Chestnut Street Incident* or *The Kid Inside*.Can't even remember if "Young Genocides" was better than "The Whore," for crissakes!! (I mean, Metal Mike Saunders, who saw JCM about 50 times in the '80s if I remember right, once told me that *Jubilee* reminded him of all those boring early '70s Van Morrison albums that nobody but Lester Bangs actually made it through, but I don't buy it it's a very fine record Metal Mike calling "Paper in Fire" more a great performance than a great song did perhaps have some credence, however.) Anyway, what I'd like to see is a best-of of his post-fall-off (a/k/a post-*Jubilee*) stuff, and yeah, "Jackie Brown" would be way up there, but I'd say the blatant Nelly rewrite "Peaceful World" would be the best song on that one. ("Small Paradise"? "Cheap Shot"? "The Great Midwest"? "Thundering Hearts"? Man, there's just so many.) Thing is, ALL of his albums between 19 (*John Cougar* to "Lonesome Jubilee*) are pretty near to flawless. I guess I'd say "Jack and Diane," or "Small Town," or "Authority Song," or "Pink Houses," or, um, something else.
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