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Mexican Moon by Concrete Blonde
Mexican Moon is an album by Concrete Blonde, released in 1993. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 15 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Mexican Moon”, on 10 lists with a best position of #373.
Mexican Moon, Concrete Blonde's fifth album, came out on I.R.S. in 1993, and it takes the Hollywood band's gothic rock and toughens it up with a hard rock edge. Johnette Napolitano handles vocals, bass, samples and even the cover art, while James Mankey's guitar and Paul Thompson's drums push harder than before.
The songs wander far: the title track has Napolitano singing of a love gone bust and a getaway into Mexico, "Jenny I Read" traces a fashion model's climb to fame and her slide into contented obscurity, and "Jonestown" picks apart the theology behind the massacre, opening with a minute of Jim Jones ranting about warfare. There's a cover of Roxy Music's "End of the Line", and the closer, "Bajo la Lune Mexicana", is Napolitano's own gloriously ungrammatical Spanish rendering of the title song, written by a woman who doesn't speak the language.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Mexican Moon on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mexican Moon | 10 | #373 | – | 1999–2023 | |
| 2 | Heal It Up | 5 | #72 | – | 1993–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.