This week's Buzz 80's Video of the Week is "Pink Houses" by John Mellencamp

John Mellencamp just about owned mainstream rock in the early '80s. He had three monster albums in a row: Uh-Huh, American Fool, and Scarecrow. Pink Houses was from Uh-Huh that came out in 1983.

MTV ran a contest to give away a house in Mellencamp's home town of Seymour, Indiana. He did a promo for it with the tagline "Paint the mother Pank". Remember ?

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