Talk:Concrete Blonde

message: Not sure how to do this with all the fancy boxes and album cover pictures and whatnot, but here are some track listings, if anyone wanted to incorporate them properly:
Concrete Blonde (IRS 1986)
1. True
2. Your Haunted Head
3. Dance Along the Edge
4. Still In Hollywood
5. Song for Kim (She Said)
6. Beware of Darkness -- (George Harrison cover)
7. Over Your Shoulder
8. Little Sister
9. (You're the Only One) Can Make Me Cry
10. Cold Part of Town
11. True (Instrumental)
12. It'll Chew You Up and Spit You Out -- (alternate version (on the CD release ) of "Still In Hollywood")
Free (IRS 1989)
1. God Is A Bullet
2. Run Run Run
3. It's Only Money
4. Help Me
5. Sun
6. Roses Grow
7. Scene of a Perfect Crime
8. Happy Birthday
9. Little Conversations
10. Carry Me Away
Bloodletting (IRS 1990)
1. Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
2. The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden Tonight
3. Caroline
4. The Darkening of the Light
5. I Don't Need a Hero
6. Days and Days
7. The Beast
8. Lullabye
9. Joey
10. Tomorrow Wendy -- (Andy Prieboy song, released before Prieboy's version, I believe)
Walking In London (IRS 1992)
1. Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man
2. Walking In London
3. La Coeur Jumeaux
4. Woman to Woman
5. Why Don't You See Me
6. City Screaming
7. Someday?
8. I Wanna Be Your Friend Again
9. ...Long Time Ago
10. It's A Man's World -- (James Brown cover)
Mexican Moon (IRS? 1993)
1. Jenny I Read
2. Mexican Moon
3. Heal It Up
4. Jonestown
5. Rain
6. I Call It Love
7. Jesus Forgive Me (For the Things I'm About to Say)
8. When You Smile
9. Close To Home
10. One of My Kind
11. End of the Line
12. (Love Is a) Blind Ambition
13. Bajo la Lune Mexicana
Still In Hollywood (IRS? 1994) -- (Collection of rare and unreleased material)
1. It'll Chew You Up and Spit You Out -- (alternate "Still In Hollwood", as above)
2. Everybody Knows -- (Leonard Cohen cover from "Pump Up the Volume" soundtrack)
3. Free -- (would have been the title track of the 1989 album, was left off it)
4. God Is A Bullet (live)
5. Probably Will
6. Mandocello
7. The Ship Song
8. Joey (live)
9. Little Wing -- (Jimi Hendrix cover)
10. Roses Grow (live)
11. The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden Tonight (live)
12. Bloodletting (extended version)
13. Simple Twist of Fate -- (Bob Dylan cover)
14. Side of the Road
15. 100 Games of Solitaire
16. Tomorrow Wendy (live)
Vowel Movement (1995) -- Johnette Napolitano and Holly Vincent
1. Dinosaur
2. Hitchhiker
3. Frank
4. When We Collide
5. I Don't Wanna
6. Las Vegas
7. Death of a Surfer
8. Vowel Movement (A-E-I-O-U)
9. Ohohoh
10. Jackie Baby
11. Gecko
12. Jesus
13. Tiny Music
14. Jackie Baby -- (alternate version)
Group Therapy (Manifesto 2002)
1. Roxy
2. Violent
3. When I Was a Fool
4. True, Part III
5. Tonight
6. Valentine
7. Your Llorona
8. Take Me Home
9. Inside/Outside
10. Fried
11. Angel
12. Memory
The Y Los Illegals album is essentially an Y Los Illegals album and bears little relation to Concrete Blonde's music generally. I no longer have that, so have no idea of the track listing. I also didnt realize there'd been a follow-up to Group Therapy, so I don't know that either.
:I've taken your info and created entries for each album except for Vowel Movement.  When I have some time this weekend, I'll try to find my copies of these albums and add more details.  Thanks for you contribution! Csbodine 18:03, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discography 

message: When they signed with I.R.S. Records in 1986, labelmate Michael Stipe suggested the name Concrete Blonde, describing the contrast between their hard rock music and introspective lyrics.
Is that a non sequitur if I ever heard one. But then, this is the guy whose own group got their name by randomly flipping open a dictionary. marbeh raglaim 13:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure what exactly is meant by it - but the phrase 'concrete blonde' does appear in the lyrics of "Still in Hollywood", on the first album.  Less a non sequitur than an obscure metaphor, methinks :) Lokicarbis 13:46, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: By non sequitur, I was referring to the comment attributed to Stipe that the name comes from the contrast between hard rock rhythms and introspective lyrics. What does concreteness or blondeness have to do with either of those things? It's stranger still considering that the lead singer is a brunette. marbeh raglaim 15:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, concrete=hard does make some sense, it you interpret concrete as artificial rock (not as the opposite of abstract). --Jared (talk) 08:49, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

text: I'd actually like to find some instance where the Napolitano quote from MTV can be substantiated on this.  I have found the Stipe story is true, but her quote may have to go if we cannot find a source.  Any Concrete Blonde fans out there who can help? --Stlamanda (talk) 16:57, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of the name "Concrete Blonde" 

message: "Everybody Knows" was on the "Pump Up The Volume" soundtrack, not the album Bloodletting.  I'm not sure who to fix this, alas.  R. Kevin Doyle (talk) 09:33, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Everybody Knows" not on Bloodletting 

message: The information from the right-hand revision of this diff needs citations or something. I've never heard of Al Bloch playing bass for Concrete Blonde and the only references a web search returns seem to point back to this article. I've also never heard that explanation for the name or even that usage of the term at all, though I couldn't refute it. I did find references to James Mankey playing in Sparks but that wasn't the only other band he played in, so I don't see listing just that.
- 74.162.152.224 (talk) 01:33, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed 

message: I updated the opening summary, although I'm open to suggestions as to how to make it better.  Anyone have any suggestions? --Stlamanda (talk) 21:50, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary updated 

message: I need some help here.  There's some great detail that lacks sources; I can't find any credible online sources (i.e., not blogs, not sources scraping this entry, etc.) that can substantiate them, and I lack the offline sources to make them stick.  And no credible source = no place in this entry.  
I've flagged these as "Citation Needed" for now, but fair warning:  they will need to be deleted if they continue to lack sources.  Thanks in advance! --Stlamanda (talk) 14:25, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations needed 

message: This doesn't really make any sense. I know it's been cited, but that might just mean that the article cited is unreliable. I've tried to form a diagnostic on this:
I tried to do a diagram. I used these contents:
Concrete Blonde:
* Sounds like Concrete Blonde (Y)
* Has a song based on Interview with the Vampire (Y)
* Is listed as Gothic Rock on Wikipedia (Y)
* Dresses like vampires (N)
* Claims to be goth (N)
4 Non-Blondes:
* Sounds like Concrete Blonde (Y)
* Has a song based on Interview with the Vampire (N)
* Is listed as Gothic Rock on Wikipedia (N)
* Dresses like vampires (N)
* Claims to be goth (N)
Sting:
* Sounds like Concrete Blonde (N)
* Has a song based on Interview with the Vampire (Y)
* Is listed as Gothic Rock on Wikipedia (N)
* Dresses like a vampire (N) (except that time he wore bat briefs in Dune)
* Claims to be goth (N)
The Sisters of Mercy:
* Sounds like Concrete Blonde (N)
* Has a song based on Interview with the Vampire (N)
* Is listed as Gothic Rock on Wikipedia (Y)
* Dresses like vampires (Y)
* Claims to be goth (N)
L.A. Guns:
* Sounds like Concrete Blonde (N)
* Has a song based on Interview with the Vampire (N)
* Is listed as Gothic Rock on Wikipedia (N)
* Dresses like vampires (Y)
* Claims to be goth (N)
Switchblade Symphony:
* Sounds like Concrete Blonde (N)
* Has a song based on Interview with the Vampire (N)
* Is listed as Gothic Rock on Wikipedia (Y)
* Dresses like vampires (N) (more like evil clown dolls)
* Claims to be goth (Y)
So I’m stumped. The deductive reasoning matrix fails.
2601:1C2:5000:8CC7:F545:7184:BA4D:32C2 (talk) 01:54, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, so I actually read the archived article. They use the adjective "gothic" to describe Concrete Blonde's music—Inaccurately, IMNSHO— as "darkly gothic", but they do not say that the music fits into the category of Gothic Rock. That's a misinterpretation of the text at best. I'm going to "be bold" and remove this spurious categorisation, as it's absolutely nonsensical. It should be noted that The Doors music was also called "gothic rock", at one point, but the Wikipedia article on them, as you can see, doesn't run with this, because it's not rational. 
2601:1C2:5000:8CC7:F545:7184:BA4D:32C2 (talk) 02:14, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can't figure out why it's considered "Gothic Rock"