Concrete Blonde

Concrete Blonde was an American alternative rock band. Their heyday was from the early 1980s until the early 1990s. After they separated in 1995, 2001 were reunified, the final out was made until 2006.

Band History

In 1982, the singer, song writer and bassist Johnette Napolitano ( b. 1957 ) with guitarist James Mankey in Los Angeles, the band "Dream 6". They released in 1983 on a French label and an EP in 1986 by the American music label IRS Taken Records. Michael Stipe, the R.E.M. with his group at the same time standing by the IRS record deal, suggested the band name Concrete Blonde, which was to illustrate the contrast between the slightly harder rock music and the softer, introspective lyrics. Their first, self-titled album was released in the same year and was hailed by critics.

The drummer Harry Rushakoff was replaced on the albums Bloodletting and on some songs by Mexican Moon by Roxy Music drummer Paul Thompson, because he was due to drug addiction clinics. 2002 Rushakoff was then replaced by Gabriel Ramirez.

Your most commercially successful album was Bloodletting (1990). In the same year the song Joey was used in the television version of the Horst Schimanski crime scene Zabou. In 1995, the group split up, but in order to re- form in 2001 in the same occupation and record a new album.

On June 5, 2006 Johnette Napolitano announced in a MySpace entry on the final out of the band.

Discography

Albums

  • Concrete Blonde, 1986
  • Free, 1989
  • Bloodletting, 1990
  • Walking in London, 1992
  • Mexican Moon, 1993
  • Still in Hollywood, 1994
  • Recollection: The Best of Concrete Blonde, 1996
  • Concrete Blonde y Los Illegals, 1997
  • Group Therapy, 2002
  • Live in Brazil 2002, 2003, double live album
  • Mojave, 2004
  • The Essential 2005

Singles

  • " Still in Hollywood" 1986
  • "True" 1986
  • "Happy Birthday " 1989
  • "God is a Bullet " 1989
  • " Caroline " 1990
  • " Joey " 1990
  • " Everybody Knows " 1990
  • " Ghost of a Texas Ladies' Man " 1992
  • " Someday" 1992
  • "Walking in London " 1992
  • " Heal It Up " 1993
  • "Mexican Moon" 1994
  • " Jonestown " in 1994
  • " Roxy " in 2002
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