Album · 1993
Mexican Moon
Mexican Moon by Concrete Blonde (1993) is rated 4.0/5 from 1 rating on Riffiter.
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Mexican Moon is the fifth full-length album from alternative rock band Concrete Blonde. The music on Mexican Moon takes the gothic rock of their previous albums and adds more of a hard rock edge to it. Johnette Napolitano provided the vocals, bass guitar, samples, and the album artwork, and she was accompanied by drummer Paul Thompson and guitarist James Mankey. "Jenny I Read" details the rise to stardom and subsequent fall into happy obscurity of a fashion model (rumoured to be Bettie Page), while "Mexican Moon" finds lead singer Johnette Napolitano singing about a failed romance and fleeing into Mexico. The song "Jonestown" is a scathing critique of the theology surrounding the Jonestown Massacre and opens with a minute-long sample of Jim Jones ranting about warfare. "End of the Line" is a Roxy Music song, written by Bryan Ferry and originally released on the Siren album.
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On the closing track, "Bajo la Lune Mexicana", Napolitano (who does not speak Spanish) wrote the Spanish lyrics, which are a literal translation of the lyrics to the album's title track. However, none of the verbs are conjugated, noun gender is ignored, and correct grammar is non-existent, and yet mostly doesn't seem to detract from the overall translation from Spanish to English.**
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- Is Mexican Moon good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Mexican Moon 4.0/5 from 1 rating.
- When was Mexican Moon released?
- Mexican Moon was released in 1993 on I.R.S. Records.
- How many tracks are on Mexican Moon?
- Mexican Moon has 13 tracks, with a runtime of 63 minutes.
- What genre is Mexican Moon?
- Mexican Moon is catalogued under Alternative Rock.