45 REVELATIONS
Finally! “Rain On The Scarecrow” is a single. I try to avoid mentioning LP tracks, to preserve the ideological purity of one of the country’s last surviving singles columns, but four months ago I felt impelled to dub this John Cougar Mellencamp cut the best non-single of 1985.
August 1, 1986


45 REVELATIONS
Finally! “Rain On The Scarecrow” is a single. I try to avoid mentioning LP tracks, to preserve the ideological purity of one of the country’s last surviving singles columns, but four months ago I felt impelled to dub this John Cougar Mellencamp cut the best non-single of 1985. Now it could end up the best single of 1986.