HURTS SO GOOD
“Hurts So Good” is a song from 1982 by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, then performing under the stage name “John Cougar”. The song was a number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for the singer/songwriter. It was the first of three major hit singles from his 1982 album American Fool. The others were “Jack & Diane” and “Hand to Hold On To”, which were all released in 1982. (More from Wikipedia)
John Mellencamp kept getting better in his work, with subsequent albums Nothin’ Matters and What If it Did and American Fool (both released under the name John Cougar) spawning several hit songs: “Ain’t Even Done with the Night”, “Hurts So Good” (both suggestive of S&M), “Jack & Diane” (Gulfport has a tattoo parlor with that name, although those are the real names of the owners), and “Hand to Hold Onto”.
(July 2012)
