this is the most under rated, over looked and unacknowledged band in the history of music. THE single most relevant band of their time, for Johnette Napolitano's singing and songwriting alone.
@@m00nracer Johnette and Jim were both very much noon-conformists and didn't allow commercial viability to influence their artistic choices. They didn't "play the game" and could've been much bigger if they did.
@@EeeDee1 Of course, since the dawn of time most artists are non-conformists, the fact remains that their music isn't counter cultural to the extent that it's difficult to process at all, it has all the necessary components to be hugely successful, in technique, content and execution.. I'm curious, what' your connection to all of this ed?
The modern human, puddle deep, gets on RUclips, knowing less than 1% of musical history of even the last 50 years, and always wants to proclaim this thing is the best of all.
I wish the wider, general public had a firmer grasp of just how DAMNED amazing this woman's vocals are. She has the power of Anne Wilson, but with more texture, more depth to her low, soft delivery. Just awesome.
mrmojorsn111 I love concrete blond. Been listening to them since still in Hollywood came out. But Ann Wilson is a true rock queen. But I do love me concrete blonde
Over 30 years later this song remains so poignant it makes me want to cry. Blame each other, blame yourselves. God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone.
You know after the massacre at Sandy Hook, where first graders were shot and killed, I had ticket to see her at The Stone Pony (Springsteen's old haunt in Asbury Park, NJ) and try as she did twice, she could not bring herself to sing this song, but her whole set was just so awesome it didn't matter, but showed us her humanity; she's truley underrated and under-appreciated by the general public but given kudos for sure by her true fans.
This entire album is 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Do yourself a favor and get it, absorb and then ask yourself why this band was never more popular. They’re incredible and so underrated. Her vocals… wow!
Right on seth.. CB are just an epic outfit..fucking music marketing & radio stations plundering the airwaves with unremarkable filler I guess back.in the day johnette would have been "too hard" to fit into a female vocalist category !!
I never really got into this band, but this song in retrospect is one of the best written rock n roll songs I’ve ever heard. As a songwriter now I listen to it and I hear the pauses, the crescendos, lyrics, and production and realize this is what it’s about, what we’re trying to do when we write songs.
you know another song that's more relevant than when it was released also..... Elvis's "In the Ghetto" from 1969..... I noticed, it actually gets worse the further you go back..... for example.....if we go back another 15 years to 1954 you can start asking how relevant is Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" today, can't you? (and then the youtube poster slid heavily into yet another endlessly deep depression)
"They're going to call me a stud, they'll all stop picking on me. I'm a high school grad, I'm over 5'3". I'll get a badge and a gun and I'll join the PD." Oh, contraire, we've so surpassed that issue in that last 30 years since....never mind. We haven't, have we?
Manny I agree! What do you think about 4 non blondes with Linda Perry? Also what do you think of the Dvinyls. Remember them? They weren't too popular but boy some GREAT female rockers .
@@ricknowak4582 linda perry is super cool! About a yr ago i seen a vlog of her about her song Beautiful recorded by Christina Aguilara.(i hada go back n watch that again!) Linda's a great songwriter/producer. Back ina years i had 4NonB's 1st release on cassette. 'What's up' is a cool song to cover. Those days, great days: Romeo Void, 'Never say never', aka "i might like ya better if we slept together"...Nena, '99 luft balloons'...Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Hole, Fiona Apple, Bjork...Sonic Youth, Belly, Juliana Hatfield...so many other talented girls...I didn't know Chrissy from Divinyls died, R I P, i went and looked up 'I Touch Myself'. Classic edit: B-52s, i was ina thrash band late 80s we covered 'rock lobster'...Liz Phair, super hot, Jewel, No Doubt Classics!
@@mannybravo237 Manny! Thank you for the reply! I will check out those other female artist you mentioned. Check out the cover band "brass against". And especially the female singers. If you like the vocalist you just mentioned you're gonna be blown away by this band! The 1st song check out "war pigs". Just watching/listening to that video will interest you in the other female singers. They play a lot of "Rage Against the Machine"." Audio slave. " Terrific horn section. But the female singers are just so, so fantastic!
@@ricknowak4582 i play sax too, thnx 4 the suggestion on brass against. They have cool covers! And another awesome frontwoman is Shirley from Garbage. Ck out their 1st selftitled release or live gigs from 90s. Very unique
highgranite I think they toured here in Aus twice and somehow I missed both tours!!! So, I'm old, bald, been told to avoid loud music because of the tingling sound (medical name i can't recall right now). I'd be first in line to see that Goddess Johnette is she toured solo. If a CB reunion happened, better yet! Great song and not meaning to offend or tell U.S citizens, it's your Country. But your gun laws suck, big time. We tightened up our after three mass murders with high powdered weapons that took, yes, with a person pulling the trigger, the loss of close to sixty lives to get those changes through. In two of them in Melbourne where I live. A girl I worked with and was slowly becoming involved with, was shot but thankfully survived a few weeks after moving into a city job while I stayed 'in the field'. She was 17. Life of flashbacks, medication and the loss of one of the nicest open people you could hope to meet. The second Melbourne shooting, Julian Knight killed seven people in 'combat mode' after he'd been kicked from the Army. I was good mates with his younger brother and got on okay with Julian. Still find it hard to get my mind around the fact I actually liked a bloke that one boring night he went out to purposefully execute other people. Thankfully Martyn Bryant wasn't known to me socially. Two out of three was/is more than enough. This song just shows what damage ingnorance and refuesal to admit the world is a whole lot different from when the right to bear arms was signed off on nearly 250 years ago to what 'arms' are available to most anyone in the modern world. Humans, can do so much good. Yet they can be stupidly obstinate over laws that like all laws, need to be reviewed at world progresses from one century to the next, then the next after that.Maybe some day the whole planet will get it right. Wont be in my life-time though and that's a sadness I guess many others like me will take to the grave.
Heard this song on the radio, and immediately bought the cassette. Got to see them play at Toad's Place in New Haven. Truly one of the greatest bands, with one of the best vocalists, ever. Johnette is exquisite.
A navy vet reintroduced me to this band in 1990. Forever grateful! My first album purchase was Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance 1983. Love priest! Johnette Napolitano, more melodic and more social commentary. Awesome! Concrete Blonde so under appreciated.
A young and different looking Concrete Blonde back when they were a four piece. Johnette took up the bass again soon after this, they got a new drumme. James looks so young here, so different now but his distinctive play style has never changed. This was a band like no other, vastly underrated in their time, never dull, always challenging. I've loved them for over 20 years and always will.
I saw em live at Big Al's Bar in downtown Los Angeles in 89, they put on a bad ass show, the bass player accidentally spilled beer on me, when they took a break.
I heard about this band from my friend Jon Finnoff in 1993 and I was just blown away and I still am every time I hear them. Jon, if you are watching thanks!
I've loved Concrete Blonde since the late 80's. Back then we worried about gang violence and guns in the street. This song still haunts us in light of all recent mass shootings. God is a bullet.... Have mercy on us everyone!
I LOVED this band in their hey day. I still LOVE their music now. I haven't heard any of their tunes in years. My CD collection is collecting dust, and I need to get it out and rip all of those great tunes to digital files, HIGH quality files, not the MP3 total number of songs over quality. Back to the point. This band ROCKS. I love Mankey's guitar tones and how he plays without a pick. Together, his guitar sounds ethereal and just out of reach, yet still powerful, constant and calling. All locked down in a solid moving groove of the rhythm section. BTW, Johnette is a bass player. She took on the bass again for the Bloodletting album. WOW. The cream, sugar, and hot spice from Johnette's voice! What can I say that has not been said by others. Just like Mankey's style and tone, Johnette's voice and quality both punch straight and hard, and other times calls to you, making your ears hungry to find the source and taste it's goodness and greatness. Rock On.
This band kicked ass! Like everybody else, can't understand how they weren't bigger and ended up so neglected. Johnette's vocals were a force of nature!
Man she nails it every time...her voice and raw passion can ignite fires of feelings. Personally I'd prefer this to any heart song (and I like heart) but IMO she was, is, and will always be in the rock n roll hall of fame in my mind lol I bet her life story would be beyond interesting...just like her. She is in category no one can compare to. 🤩🤩🤩😍
Loved this band when l was in California and played them constantly....when l was back in Australia l got to see them at my local venue when they came out & they were totally amazing....still listening to this day.
I got to see Concrete Blonde in 89 or 90 in a small club called the Tree House in Portland Maine. freakin' awesome show. Still have the ticket stub somewhere.
I'm from Maine. I remember the tree house but never went there just drove by. I discovered CB when l was 15 in 1990 so l am totally jell that u saw them there at that time.
Over 3 decades and this CD is always in my rotation....yes, I still listen to CDs. Concrete Blonde was ingrained in my life, moving out at 18, working 2 jobs to pay for college and rent. So many memories good, bad, hard and life changing. I truly believe if this was released today and their history scrubbed Concrete Blonde would be as popular as ever.
If there was ever a relevant yet timeless song since Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me this is it. When music had more social relevance than focusing on relationships or lack of.
The incendiary guitar of James Mankey tears the air in a track of fire, the thrilling drums of Harry Rushakoff keep the rhythm of express train and the swinging bass of Johnette takes the heat to the maximum level.
"God is a bullet have mercy on us".....Can't be more direct or accurate in life than that.....The girl is into her music.....she leaves no doubt and takes no prisoners.....as it should be.....
Of all the SAME SOUNDING FEMALE vocalists throughout the ages....she truly stands out as unique!!!! I love her strong vocal abilities!!! Sounds so supreme compared to others. Love it.
Concrete Blonde - where no woman has gone before ... Miss, you had me hooked since way back with Bloodletting. Keep kicking ass, Johnette - and I'll keep listening to you burn it up.
I saw them back in 1987, when I lived in LA-it might have been the Roxy, I forget. They really were my favorite LA band in those days, even better than X, because they mixed together punk and metal in a way that just felt perfect, and their lyrics really felt like the world I was living in back then. In addition to being such a great singer, Johnette is also a really talented painter, as I recall.
On April 15, 1989 during the Tiananmen Square protests I was at big ALL's bar in Down Town LA watching Concrete Blonde play live and I remember this song came on it was my favorite song by them... 26 years ago.
Fantastic song, lyrics, musicianship, and especially singer. Johnette Napolitano has a one of a kind amazing voice. I lived through that era and can't believe I didn't discover this great song and band until now. They received virtually no airplay in our part of the country. Sad.
They were all over KROQ on L.A. and were big but locally but never huge nationwide. The whole album Bloodletting is awesome. If you haven't heard Joey, Caroline or their heartbreaking cover of Tomorrow Wendy, check it out.
Me too. me too. i am wondering the very same thing. it is quite a conundrum quite a conun drum. quite a con undrum. trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together myself. thank you dear friend for your comment
Smiles...I answer RUSH but I know what you mean....No doubt the Fab 4 and The Rolling Bones got me started.....but the rock Road is huge and we all go in different directions.....RUSH MY #1.....but Concrete Blond is ALWAYS on my playlist too....Cheers
+The Stuport I agree on both bands. RUSH & Concrete Blonde! Tool is my favorite active band at the moment, though, and I sure wish Rage Against the Machine would give it another go.
Dead Parroting Agreed...Both of your Band suggestions are on my list as well.....always wondered if Rage are just laying low for a bit and them BOOM....they surprise us all with a "lil somethin-somethin"....we can only hope! Cheers
***** Hey any love for Sound garden? I thought Rage got together for a bit not long ago. Google it maybe it was just benefit reasons. Tom is a pretty good guy.
Oh, and I saw Concrete Blond at the Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater twenty years ago!! They were quite amazing in a surprisingly accommodating venue!! Johnette and James traded instruments fir one song. All the familiar material was performed with intensity, genuine fire, and real feeling!! An outstanding Butoh
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this is the most under rated, over looked and unacknowledged band in the history of music. THE single most relevant band of their time, for Johnette Napolitano's singing and songwriting alone.
@Snarick Klash "no" what? We are all entitled to opinions, some of have qualified opinions though, and that's mine.
If i live to e a thousand years old, i will never understand why this wasn't the biggest band of their time.
@@m00nracer Johnette and Jim were both very much noon-conformists and didn't allow commercial viability to influence their artistic choices. They didn't "play the game" and could've been much bigger if they did.
@@EeeDee1 Of course, since the dawn of time most artists are non-conformists, the fact remains that their music isn't counter cultural to the extent that it's difficult to process at all, it has all the necessary components to be hugely successful, in technique, content and execution.. I'm curious, what' your connection to all of this ed?
@@m00nracer I'm a huge fan of the band.
This women should be rated one the best american vocalists by a country mile
Never mind American.Just one of the best vocalists, male or female, ever!
The chick can rap .
@Izquierdo Agitar Yeah, can't you see the chick standing right next to her? Mwhahahahaha!
The modern human, puddle deep, gets on RUclips, knowing less than 1% of musical history of even the last 50 years, and always wants to proclaim this thing is the best of all.
@@sgt.thundercok4704 Life is complicated and advanced.
I think we're all balls deep in a decievingly shallow puddle
How is this song even more relevant in 2022, than it was in 1987?
It's not.
The population increased.
Simple.
I wish the wider, general public had a firmer grasp of just how DAMNED amazing this woman's vocals are. She has the power of Anne Wilson, but with more texture, more depth to her low, soft delivery. Just awesome.
top 40 anne wilson.......
A-FREAKING-MEN, truly an unappreciated artist & band.
An incredible range and yet subtle blend of Anne and Grace truly unappreciated talent
The whole band is great
mrmojorsn111 I love concrete blond. Been listening to them since still in Hollywood came out. But Ann Wilson is a true rock queen. But I do love me concrete blonde
Over 30 years later this song remains so poignant it makes me want to cry.
Blame each other, blame yourselves. God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone.
Freely admitted this makes me cry.
You know after the massacre at Sandy Hook, where first graders were shot and killed, I had ticket to see her at The Stone Pony (Springsteen's old haunt in Asbury Park, NJ) and try as she did twice, she could not bring herself to sing this song, but her whole set was just so awesome it didn't matter, but showed us her humanity; she's truley underrated and under-appreciated by the general public but given kudos for sure by her true fans.
The unfortunate fact is that it's even more relevant now.
@@mreunome oh wow... 🖤
Self-flaggelate all you want.
This entire album is 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Do yourself a favor and get it, absorb and then ask yourself why this band was never more popular. They’re incredible and so underrated. Her vocals… wow!
the media doesn't want to hear the truth and neither does the govt. !!!
Right on seth.. CB are just an epic outfit..fucking music marketing & radio stations plundering the airwaves with unremarkable filler
I guess back.in the day johnette would have been "too hard" to fit into a female vocalist category !!
LOOK ON MY PLAYLIST IVE GOT TONS OF LESSOR KNOWN GROUPS.
Concrete Blonde Never Sold Out!!
@@venusallure9752 great answer and so true.
More relevant now than ever.
Might even have been a little ahead of its time
Hands down one of the most incredible and underrated singers of all time! And the rest of the band certainly didn’t suck!!! 🖤
Johnette's voice and James's guitar style are hypnotic asf. I still love the Bloodletting album..it'll never grow old
agreed!
Absolutely! It's a modern day classic!
this band is pretty damn cool....and what a unique voice . wow.
Yeah Harry on the drums is where the talent is. With out that there's no beat. God bless Harry🔥
Still in Hollywood... Too
I've always loved her voice. Powerful, sensitive and warm.
I never really got into this band, but this song in retrospect is one of the best written rock n roll songs I’ve ever heard. As a songwriter now I listen to it and I hear the pauses, the crescendos, lyrics, and production and realize this is what it’s about, what we’re trying to do when we write songs.
This band is timeless.Johnette is a wonder to behold,haven't heard or seen anyone like her as either a writer or performer since I first heard Joey.
So sad 30 years after this song was written it's still relevant
This song is more relevant now than when it was released.
that is such an UNDERSTATEMENT!! Soooooooooooooooooo relevant now!!!
you know another song that's more relevant than when it was released also.....
Elvis's "In the Ghetto" from 1969.....
I noticed, it actually gets worse the further you go back.....
for example.....if we go back another 15 years to 1954 you can start asking how relevant is Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" today, can't you?
(and then the youtube poster slid heavily into yet another endlessly deep depression)
@@JuandeFucaU It hits hard don't it?
just waitin on my god given badge and bullets !!!!
"They're going to call me a stud, they'll all stop picking on me. I'm a high school grad, I'm over 5'3". I'll get a badge and a gun and I'll join the PD."
Oh, contraire, we've so surpassed that issue in that last 30 years since....never mind. We haven't, have we?
Saw them in concert at several clubs in NYC in the 90's, they were amazing every time!! Ahhh the memories! ❤️
Wow , I would have done anything to see this band ❤️
Saw them at the Commadore Ballroom in Vancouver, they were loud almost too loud, but good,…
This woman burns up every song she touches. Where is the recognition.
Concrete blonde is raw, edgy and loaded with power and emotion, one of my favorite bands.
Check out My Ruin, too. Amazing band.
Over a quarter-century after its release, this song gets truer and sadder each day.
Fact. Fucking train wreck.
phuquin eh
+ shithead2415 Attention-seeking ugly fuck who can't even put up a decent default picture. Pathetic loser.
Simply because this is the greatest album ever recorded. (And I am calling Louie V's Ninth an album)
Sadly you continue to be correct. When the fuck will we learn?
Scary how more relevant this song keeps getting.
God is a bullet have mercy on us everyone🙏
I love the grit and the honesty in Johnette’s voice. ❤️ Her eyes ain’t bad either
Concrete Blonde has always been, and will always be, right where they need to be: in my♡, in my head, in my ears, in my senses!
Rocknroll Royalty
Manny I agree! What do you think about 4 non blondes with Linda Perry? Also what do you think of the Dvinyls. Remember them? They weren't too popular but boy some GREAT female rockers .
@@ricknowak4582 linda perry is super cool! About a yr ago i seen a vlog of her about her song Beautiful recorded by Christina Aguilara.(i hada go back n watch that again!) Linda's a great songwriter/producer. Back ina years i had 4NonB's 1st release on cassette. 'What's up' is a cool song to cover. Those days, great days: Romeo Void, 'Never say never', aka "i might like ya better if we slept together"...Nena, '99 luft balloons'...Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Hole, Fiona Apple, Bjork...Sonic Youth, Belly, Juliana Hatfield...so many other talented girls...I didn't know Chrissy from Divinyls died, R I P, i went and looked up 'I Touch Myself'. Classic
edit: B-52s, i was ina thrash band late 80s we covered 'rock lobster'...Liz Phair, super hot, Jewel, No Doubt
Classics!
@@mannybravo237 Manny! Thank you for the reply! I will check out those other female artist you mentioned. Check out the cover band "brass against". And especially the female singers. If you like the vocalist you just mentioned you're gonna be blown away by this band! The 1st song check out "war pigs". Just watching/listening to that video will interest you in the other female singers. They play a lot of "Rage Against the Machine"." Audio slave. " Terrific horn section. But the female singers are just so, so fantastic!
@@ricknowak4582 i play sax too, thnx 4 the suggestion on brass against. They have cool covers!
And another awesome frontwoman is Shirley from Garbage. Ck out their 1st selftitled release or live gigs from 90s. Very unique
James's sound, that solo, just an amazing guitarist.
never forgot concrete blonde. one of the best rock and roll bands i ever heard. its sad that we all have to get old, and that it happens so fast.
get old? saw Johnette and Jim in SF last year, still managed to put on one of the most powerful shows I've ever seen- they ain't lost nothing.
highgranite
I think they toured here in Aus twice and somehow I missed both tours!!! So, I'm old, bald, been told to avoid loud music because of the tingling sound (medical name i can't recall right now). I'd be first in line to see that Goddess Johnette is she toured solo. If a CB reunion happened, better yet! Great song and not meaning to offend or tell U.S citizens, it's your Country. But your gun laws suck, big time. We tightened up our after three mass murders with high powdered weapons that took, yes, with a person pulling the trigger, the loss of close to sixty lives to get those changes through. In two of them in Melbourne where I live. A girl I worked with and was slowly becoming involved with, was shot but thankfully survived a few weeks after moving into a city job while I stayed 'in the field'. She was 17. Life of flashbacks, medication and the loss of one of the nicest open people you could hope to meet.
The second Melbourne shooting, Julian Knight killed seven people in 'combat mode' after he'd been kicked from the Army. I was good mates with his younger brother and got on okay with Julian. Still find it hard to get my mind around the fact I actually liked a bloke that one boring night he went out to purposefully execute other people.
Thankfully Martyn Bryant wasn't known to me socially. Two out of three was/is more than enough. This song just shows what damage ingnorance and refuesal to admit the world is a whole lot different from when the right to bear arms was signed off on nearly 250 years ago to what 'arms' are available to most anyone in the modern world.
Humans, can do so much good. Yet they can be stupidly obstinate over laws that like all laws, need to be reviewed at world progresses from one century to the next, then the next after that.Maybe some day the whole planet will get it right. Wont be in my life-time though and that's a sadness I guess many others like me will take to the grave.
+Stephen Morrow maybe some day your tinnitus will find a way to go the FUCK AWAY...like Trumpanzeeboy should...ASAP!
Add another 8 years to this comment.... where did the time go
Not everyone gets old: some people die before they have the chance.
When I moved interstate in 1994, I only took one cassette with me in my walkman and it was Concrete Blonde. Good times, great songs.
Heard this song on the radio, and immediately bought the cassette. Got to see them play at Toad's Place in New Haven. Truly one of the greatest bands, with one of the best vocalists, ever. Johnette is exquisite.
Johnette Napolitano, best voice of my time! And I am a fan of Rob Halford. Why this band never got more attention is beyond me.
A navy vet reintroduced me to this band in 1990. Forever grateful! My first album purchase was Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance 1983. Love priest! Johnette Napolitano, more melodic and more social commentary. Awesome! Concrete Blonde so under appreciated.
A young and different looking Concrete Blonde back when they were a four piece. Johnette took up the bass again soon after this, they got a new drumme. James looks so young here, so different now but his distinctive play style has never changed. This was a band like no other, vastly underrated in their time, never dull, always challenging. I've loved them for over 20 years and always will.
37 and I grew up on em. There could never be an ensemble that comes close to comparison.
One of the best songs from one of the best bands ever. I could listen to this over and over.
I do.
A sadly underrated singer
I agree. Saw them live a while back and they sounded amazing.
I saw em live at Big Al's Bar in downtown Los Angeles in 89, they put on a bad ass show, the bass player accidentally spilled beer on me, when they took a break.
so good
She fuckin kicks ass! Love her voice and their music!!!!
She was/is right??? I always thought so too!! Amazing singer!!🎤🎶 ALWAYS a very relevant topic too!!!
My Dad loved this band, one of our favourite car trip cassette tapes, an awesome album !!❤
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!! I spent the past 25 years taking vocal lessons just so I could cover this Goddess' tunes!!! God bless Johnette Napolitano!!!!
A fair dinkum Rocknroll hall of fame band if ever there was if you’re reading this check out heal it up if you haven’t it she is deadset hot
I’d love to hear you sing some CB
I heard about this band from my friend Jon Finnoff in 1993 and I was just blown away and I still am every time I hear them. Jon, if you are watching thanks!
this guitarist is so, so good very under rated . then again the whole band is.
I've loved Concrete Blonde since the late 80's. Back then we worried about gang violence and guns in the street. This song still haunts us in light of all recent mass shootings. God is a bullet.... Have mercy on us everyone!
I LOVED this band in their hey day. I still LOVE their music now. I haven't heard any of their tunes in years. My CD collection is collecting dust, and I need to get it out and rip all of those great tunes to digital files, HIGH quality files, not the MP3 total number of songs over quality. Back to the point. This band ROCKS. I love Mankey's guitar tones and how he plays without a pick. Together, his guitar sounds ethereal and just out of reach, yet still powerful, constant and calling. All locked down in a solid moving groove of the rhythm section. BTW, Johnette is a bass player. She took on the bass again for the Bloodletting album. WOW.
The cream, sugar, and hot spice from Johnette's voice! What can I say that has not been said by others. Just like Mankey's style and tone, Johnette's voice and quality both punch straight and hard, and other times calls to you, making your ears hungry to find the source and taste it's goodness and greatness. Rock On.
That what I’m doing
32 years ago my band covered this song. Our lead singer sounded just like Johnnette. She sadly took her own life a few years ago. I miss you Laura.
This band kicked ass! Like everybody else, can't understand how they weren't bigger and ended up so neglected. Johnette's vocals were a force of nature!
You are sooo right, I had this CD would drive my kids to school, then drive around listening to them.....
What a truly GREAT band! Being from LA for most of my life, I appreciate their LA cred, but they are so much more.
This came out when I was in high school, people should have listened.
Man she nails it every time...her voice and raw passion can ignite fires of feelings. Personally I'd prefer this to any heart song (and I like heart) but IMO she was, is, and will always be in the rock n roll hall of fame in my mind lol I bet her life story would be beyond interesting...just like her. She is in category no one can compare to. 🤩🤩🤩😍
See also Chrissie Hynde... she’s in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame. We know how to do it here in Ohio, see?
Well said , 👏 she is truly one of a kind
Loved this band when l was in California and played them constantly....when l was back in Australia l got to see them at my local venue when they came out & they were totally amazing....still listening to this day.
My favourite female vocalist all time!!
This band has a unique quality that never sounds dated and doesn’t fit neatly into any category which is probably why I like it👍
I saw them live at the Coach House in 1988 and Johnette was absolutely badass. Still one of my favorite songs of all time.
This band should’ve had a far bigger presence on US radio in their heyday. Underrated is a word that just define them at all.
When I listen to the lyrics to this song the first thing that comes to mind is truth. Spot on right on the money truth
She's an extraordinary songwriter! These lyrics are powerful and even more relevant today. This was written years before we had daily mass shootings.
Johnette is a goddess. One of kind.
Such an incredible Voice, Lyrics, Music, Band, Absolutely Amazing!!! 🖤💖🖤💖🖤
I got to see Concrete Blonde in 89 or 90 in a small club called the Tree House in Portland Maine. freakin' awesome show. Still have the ticket stub somewhere.
I'm from Maine. I remember the tree house but never went there just drove by. I discovered CB when l was 15 in 1990 so l am totally jell that u saw them there at that time.
@@meganolson7827 Thats great. I wish more people had discovered CB back in the day.
@Jon Shaw l do too and l wish their talent was recognized for sure cuz they are so incredible.
Johnette's voice is just about the most badass I've ever heard.
Straight up Badass ! Recognize Concrete Blonde !
I can't believe I forgot this band! They are incredible.
And still producing kick ass new music to this day.
Probably because radio, only played Joey. They don't even play that anymore...
Over 3 decades and this CD is always in my rotation....yes, I still listen to CDs. Concrete Blonde was ingrained in my life, moving out at 18, working 2 jobs to pay for college and rent. So many memories good, bad, hard and life changing. I truly believe if this was released today and their history scrubbed Concrete Blonde would be as popular as ever.
The most underrated band of the 90s...Love Johnette's unique voice
If there was ever a relevant yet timeless song since Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me this is it. When music had more social relevance than focusing on relationships or lack of.
Awesome song..still after all these years...had this cd...wore it out..one if the best voices in rock...period!!! Hope shes living happy...
Can you wear out a cd? 😂
@@MophineChild yes lol
I listen to this to wake my soul up. Concrete Blonde will do it! I love this band and Johnette is a gift to us.
The incendiary guitar of James Mankey tears the air in a track of fire, the thrilling drums of Harry Rushakoff keep the rhythm of express train and the swinging bass of Johnette takes the heat to the maximum level.
Are you commenting in the right vid? Shows someone else playing bass. Was it her on the recording?
I thought the best part of this song is how furious Johnette sounds at 3:26 - "all for goddam NOTHING!"
When I heard that for the first time, it cemented this song in my memory back in the 80's
Same Here
Underrated, underplayed rock ,love it!,,,,,,,,,,,
Joey was their only "radio-friendly" song, just like like "love will tear us apart" by Joy Division... so damn unfair
Isn't she awesome....I'm glad generation y is discovering her🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🌏🌏🌏🌏🌏🌏🌏
Found this Song again after 30 years, blew me away, still as Primal as it was when Released!!
Guitarra 🎸 como esta no existió ni volverá a existir
Concrete Blonde una de las mejores bandas de tds los seculos!!!!!
"God is a bullet have mercy on us".....Can't be more direct or accurate in life than that.....The girl is into her music.....she leaves no doubt and takes no prisoners.....as it should be.....
Of all the SAME SOUNDING FEMALE vocalists throughout the ages....she truly stands out as unique!!!! I love her strong vocal abilities!!! Sounds so supreme compared to others. Love it.
+Sam Abdeslam
yes! yes, yes, yes!!
Concrete Blonde - where no woman has gone before ... Miss, you had me hooked since way back with Bloodletting. Keep kicking ass, Johnette - and I'll keep listening to you burn it up.
This great song is still relevant in 2015. Sad.
Nothing changes but the date on the calendar.
I saw them back in 1987, when I lived in LA-it might have been the Roxy, I forget. They really were my favorite LA band in those days, even better than X, because they mixed together punk and metal in a way that just felt perfect, and their lyrics really felt like the world I was living in back then. In addition to being such a great singer, Johnette is also a really talented painter, as I recall.
I feel compelled to ask you to recommend a place to view her art I would like to see that very much
Can’t add anything that hasn’t already been said. Just LOVE the voice.
Best voice in a long time. Love her.
Saw Johnette in small bar/venue in Seattle in '94 or '95. Just her and her guitar. It was raw.
Great singer 👏👏👏👏👏Great band!!!
On April 15, 1989 during the Tiananmen Square protests I was at big ALL's bar in Down Town LA watching Concrete Blonde play live and I remember this song came on it was my favorite song by them... 26 years ago.
God is a bullet
Have mercy on us everyone
It’s true Los Angeles spoken by one that knows better than just about all of us. Also check Happy Birthday. Magic.
This song could become a new icon during wars and civil revolutions .. concrete blonde renioun tour coming up
God is a bullet have mercy on us...every one! Still listening in 2018!
Me too, 2019!
Me too 2021
What a timely song. I saw them live in Chicago at the Metro. They were awesome. Singer was A+
One of the best bands of all time.
I always loved Concrete Blonde and always will. They changed my life.
I freaking love CB and this song is on point. Literally.
Fantastic song, lyrics, musicianship, and especially singer. Johnette Napolitano has a one of a kind amazing voice. I lived through that era and can't believe I didn't discover this great song and band until now. They received virtually no airplay in our part of the country. Sad.
They were all over KROQ on L.A. and were big but locally but never huge nationwide. The whole album Bloodletting is awesome. If you haven't heard Joey, Caroline or their heartbreaking cover of Tomorrow Wendy, check it out.
I just happened upon Concrete Blonde recently. Hearing Johnette's voice again, now in 2019, all I can think is: How the hell was this band not HUGE??
Me too. me too. i am wondering the very same thing. it is quite a conundrum quite a conun drum. quite a con undrum. trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together myself. thank you dear friend for your comment
A very very overlooked band
When people ask me,"Stones or Beatles", I just answer "Concrete Blonde"…
very cool...🤘
Smiles...I answer RUSH but I know what you mean....No doubt the Fab 4 and The Rolling Bones got me started.....but the rock Road is huge and we all go in different directions.....RUSH MY #1.....but Concrete Blond is ALWAYS on my playlist too....Cheers
+The Stuport I agree on both bands. RUSH & Concrete Blonde! Tool is my favorite active band at the moment, though, and I sure wish Rage Against the Machine would give it another go.
Dead Parroting Agreed...Both of your Band suggestions are on my list as well.....always wondered if Rage are just laying low for a bit and them BOOM....they surprise us all with a "lil somethin-somethin"....we can only hope! Cheers
***** Hey any love for Sound garden? I thought Rage got together for a bit not long ago. Google it maybe it was just benefit reasons. Tom is a pretty good guy.
the words of this song never stop to make me shake inside, decades later, they seem even stronger.
Jim Mankey's lead on this song is fucking sick. One of the greatest of all time.
Did you know him personally by any chance
Oh, and I saw Concrete Blond at the Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater twenty years ago!! They were quite amazing in a surprisingly accommodating venue!! Johnette and James traded instruments fir one song. All the familiar material was performed with intensity, genuine fire, and real feeling!!
An outstanding Butoh
my dad is 80 an I bought this cd for him its the only cd he owns
too cool
That's so Awesome, I have turned more guys on to her and her super sultry sexy voice for 20 years and one was one of my stepfathers...
Age doesn't discriminate against good music
Good for ole "Pops", he has good taste.
Excellent choice. Definitely my favorite album by them
I have been a fan forever. A story I choose not to tell. Nothing strange just feels private. One of the best bands in my life.
Goddamn is she a powerful singer and presence.
This is one of the finest post punk records I've ever heard...one ringer after another...Concrete Blonde is top shelf rock and roll......
Just posting this because Johnette is amazing.
Saw them/her live in Vancouver years and years ago. I had very high expectations, and I was mesmerized. She is as you say, amazing.
@@AgentJayZ did you meet her in person by any chance face to face eye to eye
Truly one of THE great voices of rock. Johnette is just an iconic artist in the truest sense of the word.
Just an amazing vocalist unfortunately never saw them live. Hoping for a reunion!
During the Gulf War my brother in law sent me a tape and on one side was Concrete Blonde. I wore that side out. Still listen to them to this day.
Good Lord that woman can sing!
This voice is from another world, is pure power. And the guitarist is unique
God she has a hell of a voice. Just wow
One more good shot from Concrete Blonde, simple and efficient........