Mexican Moon

Mexican Moon
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 19, 1993
GenreAlternative rock, gothic rock
Length62:28
LabelIRS Records (later reissued by Capitol Records)
ProducerConcrete Blonde with Sean Freehill
Concrete Blonde chronology
Walking in London
(1992)
Mexican Moon
(1993)
Still in Hollywood
(1994)
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Mexican Moon is the fifth studio album by alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.

Mexican Moon takes the gothic rock of the previous albums and adds more of a hard rock edge to it. Johnette Napolitano provided the vocals, bass guitar, samples, and the album artwork. Paul Thompson played drums and James Mankey played guitar.

"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 Napolitano singing about a failed romance and fleeing into Mexico. The song "Jonestown" is a 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 released on Siren.

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; it doesn't detract from the overall translation from Spanish to English.