WCSX Classic Cuts : Crumblin’ Down
WCSX Classic Cuts
John Mellencamp: “Crumblin’ Down”
The Hook: A political song that wasn’t recognized as one at the time.
Year: 1983
Album: Uh-Huh
Writers: John Mellencamp and George Green
Stats: Peaked at number-nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and number-two on the Top Tracks mainstream rock chart.
Background: John Mellencamp and his songwriting collaborator George Green had something in mind when they wrote “Crumblin’ Down.” Mellencamp admits that a lot of people didn’t really get what that was.
John Mellencamp on “Crumblin’ Down.” OC:…what happens. :16
“I recorded ‘Crumblin’ Down’ in 1983 and it was a very political song, but wasn’t understood at the time to be that way – they thought it was about me. I don’t know why everybody thinks that because a guy writes a song that it’s about himself, but that seems to be what happens.”
