Mexican Moon
Occupation
- Vocals / Guitar / Bass / Percussion: Johnette Napolitano
- Guitar / Bass: James Mankey
- Drums: Paul Thompson
- Drums: Harry Rushakoff
Mexican Moon is the fifth album by the American alternative rock band Concrete Blonde. It was a joint venture between IRS that had the contractual right to publish, and Capitol who wanted to provide increased promotional efforts, brought out. Bandleader Johnette Napolitano said once, they did not relate their energy from the Hard Rock / Metal, but from the hardcore / punk, yet sounds on this imaginary as adoption album more hard rock as punk who still played a role on the debut album Concrete Blonde. During the recording of Walking in London Napolitano continued writing songs, so the appearance of distance between the albums number four and five was short. Both former drummer Harry Rushakoff and Paul Thompson were on friendly terms with Concrete Blonde, which is why everyone came to its use.
Guest musicians
The usual clear instrument distribution is broken here. Johnette Napolitano and James Mankey operate electric bass and electric guitar in various situations, for example, have times both guitar credits or Napolitano comes from times without Mankeys participation. He puts it in some other pieces of guitar types a, such as the Spanish guitar or guitar synthesizer. And Napolitano in turn has several inserts with percussion instruments. Almost tradition is that - considering the last two albums - the involvement of Wall of Voodoo singer Andy Prieboy. With Close To Home and at ( Love Is a ) Blind Ambition him a piano part was intended for. One of My Kind composed Napolitano together with the known in the LA punk scene Texacala Jones, it also maintains the same duet with Napolitano. Most helper does Jonestown. The background choir consists of Andy Prieboy, Jeff Trott of World Party and James Mankey. Industrial Icon Genesis P -Orridge helped with the sampling of Jim Jones speech. For his "Drum Programming" finally got producer Sean Freehill credits.
Title list
Song Info
The heavy opener Jenny I Read is about the short career of a model that dives when announcing loss of interest in her.
The arty Napolitano is an admirer of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. The proximity of Mexico with its reaching to Los Angeles influences they fascinate anyway. Under lovesick suffering, she fled to Mexico and wrote the wistful ballad Mexican Moon. The single the Tears -for- Fears - Shout cover was attached. A line of text from it, "Shout - let it all out ," she sat around on the next album track: Heal It Up is the herausgeschriene cumulative pain of all Love disappointments of recent years. Two previously unreleased songs, including a Bob Dylan cover, complete the CD-single - output, as well as the on the album placed fourth in Jonestown. Jonestown itself was given its own extraction, but only as a vinyl record, with the flock of sheep on the cover depicts the functioning as subtitles verse from the Bible from false prophets in sheep's clothing. The variously worked in the Heavy Metal theme of the mass suicide in Guyana will be opened at Concrete Blonde with a one-minute aggressive speech excerpt of the cult leader Jim Jones and continued with Napolitano's electronically distorted voice, howling guitars and other underlying Jones statements in industrial metal style.
"Jesus" is mentioned both in Jonestown, as well as in I Call It Love and Jesus Forgive Me ' (For the Things I'm About to Say ). In the former song love is the "Universal ", what others connect with religion. The response to Jesus is an expression of ambivalent relationship to religion with recurring doubts about the faith and subsequent repentance.
One of My child is about the feeling of being different, and surprises with funky grooves, as co-writer and singer Texacala Jones comes out of the punk scene.
With Close To Home in contrast to earlier critical Hometown considerations indicated a love letter to LA is represented. That Mankey here can sing a duet with Napolitano, it owes its tailored to their voice composition.
Foreign compositions are When You Smile ( The Dream Syndicate ) and End of the Line ( Roxy Music). No cover version in the proper sense is Rain because it is merely a re-recording of a song from the indie EP, which was produced in 1983 under the old name Dream 6 (and was launched by Capitol promotional purposes again). It's about the regret of a lost love. The same tones strikes the new piece ( Love Is a ) Blind Ambition. These then fits the song that ends the album, because it's a Spanish version of Mexican Moon. Bajo la Lune Mexicana has the drawback to be a word - for-word translation without taking into account the grammar. It was drawn by the bassist of the local Chicano punk band Los Illegals, Jesus Velo.
Artwork
The booklet front is facing a stage erected high cacti. Prior to dancing two skeletons drawn together flamenco, which can be recognized by their gender folk dress as a pair. The female skeleton, the heart beats of a living person on the site, a heart- shaped hole in her red dress. A theater motif already adorned the Walking in London cover. A skeleton couple was first present in the text accompaniment to Concrete Blonde. The heart as a game card or a game color was previously in the artwork of Concrete Blonde, Free, Walking in London and the CD single Ghost of a Texas Ladies' Man has been installed. The drawings and photographs for the booklet supplied Johnette Napolitano, the final design did the New York graphic designer Brigid Pearson.
Reception
From the album Rock Hard 8 received 10 points, because " Mexican Moon do well to please despite some hangover ". In the analysis of the journal Music Magazine states: " Consistent notice that guitars are more to the fore, giving the music more hardness. " The band threatened "with their instinctive unpopular way to flop again between all the chairs ." And as a summary: " The eternal secret tip may even sound pleasant uncommercial on the fifth plate. " The knob has been turned on the 5-point scale on the "3". The Internet platform Allmusic awarded 3.5 stars out of 5.