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“Mexican Moon” by Concrete Blonde
From the album Mexican Moon (1993)
“Mexican Moon” by Concrete Blonde appears on 10 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2023. It was first released in 1993 on the album Mexican Moon. Its best result is #373 on The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,592 alternative song of all time.
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"Mexican Moon" is the title track of Concrete Blonde's fifth album, released in October 1993, and it belongs to Johnette Napolitano from top to bottom: she wrote the words and music and sings of a failed romance and a getaway south into Mexico. James Mankey's classical and acoustic guitars give it a dusty, border-town shimmer, with Napolitano adding electric guitar underneath.
The album around it kept the band's gothic rock and bolted on a harder edge. It closes with "Bajo la Lune Mexicana", for which Napolitano turned the title track's lyrics literally into Spanish, a language she doesn't speak, leaving the verbs unconjugated and the grammar to fend for itself.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1137 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1140 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1143 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1142 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1127 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1127 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1127 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2022 | 631 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2022 | 901 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 373 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
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