I was 15, at a party, sat in the kitchen with the coolest lad there and he put this cassette on and we just talked and chilled for hours. Still love this album.
In my opinion this is one of the most underrated bands of all time. My brother is strictly a metalhead who loves his Pantera and slayer. He even compliments the guitarist from concrete blonde when I play them. The record store near me has a copy of bloodletting on vinyl for 65 dollars and I've been tempted to buy it for some time. Good band.
You are 100% correct. This band should have been HUGE. they have so many incredible songs. Johnette is amazing. Completely the most underrated band to ever exist.
Slayer basically nicked this song's main riff for their song "Bloodline", very similar to Concrete Blonde's riff here. The Slayer song was about vampires too.
@@t_bone12571 I like a good amount of slayer but I'll have to look it up. I know I've heard bloodline at some point in time. I think that was the song from the dracula 2000 soundtrack lol
The most underrated band of all of our lifetime. There will never be a band that should have been huge that wasnt as this band. I got to meet Johnette and Jim and they are two of the most awesome people you could ever meet in your lifetime.
I remember at the end of '90, Jon Bon Jovi, when asked of his favorite albums for 1990, he said that _Bloodlettting_ was the best album of the year. I already knew that because I had followed CB since their eponymous debut in '86, but it gave me newfound respect for JBJ. It's criminal the band's not well known today. Everyone just wants to hear _Joey._
I loved every song but Joey, would always skip it from the radio wearing it out. Just wasnt who they were to me. Went to New Orleans the next year too!
@@PatClevenger0709 I play the entire album every Halloween! Joey used to be one of my favorites back in the day, but after living with an addict these past three years I can't hear it without getting emotional.
I was reading an interview with Dwight Yoakum in the Rolling Stone, years ago, and when they asked him what he was currently listening to, he said Concrete Blonde, “Bloodletting “. I picked it up not long after, and ended up grabbing all of her previous albums, and was hooked ever since.
"Bloodletting" is one of the greatest all-around albums in any genre. There's not a bad song on it, and even the B-side to 'Joey' IIRC 'I Want You,' is great!
Basically the BEST DAMN FEMALE FRONTED BAND EVER....one of my muses and biggest musical infuluences... I couldn't imagine not having her voice in my life
Johnette Napolitano is in my top 5 singers of all time. I say her name and people don't know who she is. That is a crime. She should be better known than Cardi B.
The first time I ever heard this song was at the old Pink Pussy Cat gentleman's club in Knoxville Tennessee on my buddy Snake's 18th birthday!!! A lady came out in a red cape dressed as a vampiress and proceeded to dance and take her clothes off!!! What a memory. RIP Snake.
I had a very similar experience. My first trip to a strip club was in San Juan when I was 18, and one chick came out to a strobe light with Di Hast playing. Mind = blown.
One of my best friends, a long haired blonde guy named Kurt Shilling, turned me on to this song in the mid- nineties. Kurt died in a motorcycle crash, down by a lake, not concentrating because he had a bad situation with a girl heavy on his mind.😢💔 It was the same day that Princess Di died in a car chase in Paris. I was so devastated that I had no idea she'd died until many weeks later. That was over twenty- seven years ago now....& I think about him & miss him regularly. He was only thirty- three years old. I love you, man.
There's a crack in the mirror And a bloodstain on my bed There's a crack in the mirror And a bloodstain on my bed Oh, you were a vampire And baby, I'm the walking dead I got the ways and means To New Orleans I'm going down by the river Where it's warm and green I'm gonna have a drink and walk around I got a lot to think about Oh, yeah Oh, yeah There's a rocking chair by the window Down the hall There's a rocking chair by the window Down the hall Oh, you were a vampire And now I am nothing at all I got the ways and means To New Orleans I'm going down by the river Where it's warm and green I'm gonna have a drink and walk around I got a lot to think about Oh, yeah Oh, yeah Oh, yeah Oh, yeah
Bloodletting, Joey and Song number 10…Tomorrow Wendy! This CD stayed in my rotation along with Peter Murphy, Echo and the Bunnymen, R.E.M., Depeche, Live, etc.
I have found them all over again through a friend. My ears have never heard anything so sonically appealing once again!! All the pop stars and Internet sensations with there empty souls could never even come close to this band and this Woman!!
Was feeling a little nostalgic and looked up Tomorrow, Wendy. That led me here and now I think I'm gonna be on a concrete blonde jag for a while. Where my 90s kids at?
I’m very late to the game on this band. They were noticed by MTV and the cool kids in 1990. I was 9 and 10 at the time and my parents forbade MTV to be shown in my house. So I missed out on one of the best but practically unnoticed bands of the 1980s and 1990s. But UA-cam exists now and I’m on board until I leave this planet altogether. Great, awesome, fantastic band.
This is an alternate version of the video, I much prefer the original (also posted on youtube but in a very low quality image) with Johnette wearing the goth lolita outfit in most of the scenes. I fell in love with it from the very 1st time I saw it in the summer of 1991.
I have listened the liveversion of this song .I find that version better because of the guitarsound that's much more creepier .🎸🎸 and the fantastic voice of johnette
Girls in black corsets and leather...the aroma of Clove cigarettes and Wild Turkey...this song blasting outta the boom box on the wall. Back in the days when we ruled it all...
My friends father introduced me to this song a couple of years ago I'm now 21 and still think about this song whenever I hear bloodletting brought up in any conversation.
I believe great music was being produced for decades and got really good and ended in the 90s. The world hasn’t been the same since, it’s like something has stolen everyone’s souls
The 90s ruined everything. I remember as a youth actually crying while watching Never Being Boring by the Pet Shop Boys. That video (for me) set the tone of the 90s: sex and sensationalism. So depressing.
I think the end of the Cold War with Russia made everybody start feeling hopeful again and even though a lot of the music was dark it was kind of about survival. It feels like now people are feeling hopeless for other reasons and their trying to white-wash it with bubble-gum girl-pop to hide the fear. I still find bands here and there that evoke emotions I enjoy though. Pink for instance has a sarcasm to her lyrics that make me laugh. :)
I believe you've been filled by the extending arm of polyoply and need to maybe find good venues and street art where plenty of good music exists and thrives. If your just searching the internet and radio than your going to find yourself with more of the soulless subject material
@@derinaries That's how I feel, although I largely feel it's MTV and the RIAA's fault. They pushed alternative bands so hard to bulldoze over various talented bands, only for a lot of those to drop off the face the earth. Hell, while there were good bands they also pushed forgettable, no talented hacks to the forefront as well who couldn't sing. Some how, MTV has it stuck in their minds to produce nothing but low class, reality Tv shows even when it's been exposed that a lot of stuff was staged. They said they were going to change things, but I have yet to see it. I wish it would go back to being music television, with animated series and comedy shows like they used to have.
Ways and means ,,, to New Orleans . I had that in late 2008 . Was one of the best experiences of my life ;) Driving over the sunshine bridge with the sun in my face & a dirty windshield . It don't get no better for building character .
This song makes me feel both very old and eternally young all at once.
Same here
Triple same here. was 20 when this song came out and I wore out the actual CD (yes that could happen).
Hmm likely story 😶🌫️
Sounds like something a vampire would say. 😉
@@ericabanten221 Yeah, that's total vampire stuff right there!
I was 15, at a party, sat in the kitchen with the coolest lad there and he put this cassette on and we just talked and chilled for hours. Still love this album.
General description of how most of us encounter these gems
That's a good memory right there. 🍻
Best all round album I’ve ever listened to
I miss you Dawn
Sounds very familiar... Sarah? It's me. The coolest lad... anywhere... everywhere.
This is literally the first time i have ever heard this song! Im 60 years old. So down the Concrete Blonde rabbit hole i gooo...🤟🤟🤟
It's a WORTHWHILE journey.
First time for me and my neighbours. I'm 74. What more have I missed?
Thank you first time for me was 35 lol life is a funny joke
Enjoy the trip. Don't forget to come back.
I'm 64 and the first time I heard it I was 44, shopping at the mall, I bought lots of black clothes haha
In my opinion this is one of the most underrated bands of all time. My brother is strictly a metalhead who loves his Pantera and slayer. He even compliments the guitarist from concrete blonde when I play them. The record store near me has a copy of bloodletting on vinyl for 65 dollars and I've been tempted to buy it for some time. Good band.
BUY IT!!! PLAY IT LOUD at least 3 times a day!
Huh. I didn't realize that the majority of people familiar with the band thought they stink. I figured they were rated just fine.
You are 100% correct. This band should have been HUGE. they have so many incredible songs. Johnette is amazing. Completely the most underrated band to ever exist.
Slayer basically nicked this song's main riff for their song "Bloodline", very similar to Concrete Blonde's riff here. The Slayer song was about vampires too.
@@t_bone12571 I like a good amount of slayer but I'll have to look it up. I know I've heard bloodline at some point in time. I think that was the song from the dracula 2000 soundtrack lol
The most underrated band of all of our lifetime. There will never be a band that should have been huge that wasnt as this band. I got to meet Johnette and Jim and they are two of the most awesome people you could ever meet in your lifetime.
Cult
I agree
Bang Tango was another one
Toadies as well
I remember at the end of '90, Jon Bon Jovi, when asked of his favorite albums for 1990, he said that _Bloodlettting_ was the best album of the year. I already knew that because I had followed CB since their eponymous debut in '86, but it gave me newfound respect for JBJ. It's criminal the band's not well known today. Everyone just wants to hear _Joey._
I really love “Jonestown” too. There’s no “skips” from them!
I loved every song but Joey, would always skip it from the radio wearing it out. Just wasnt who they were to me.
Went to New Orleans the next year too!
This is my favorite Concrete Blonde song. I play it every Halloween, if not more often.
No one cares about Joey anymore. He's on his 1300th stint in rehab by now.
@@PatClevenger0709 I play the entire album every Halloween! Joey used to be one of my favorites back in the day, but after living with an addict these past three years I can't hear it without getting emotional.
One of the greatest albums of it's time. Her voice is unreal
I was reading an interview with Dwight Yoakum in the Rolling Stone, years ago, and when they asked him what he was currently listening to, he said Concrete Blonde, “Bloodletting “. I picked it up not long after, and ended up grabbing all of her previous albums, and was hooked ever since.
Heard this in the dungeon in New Orleans and it was awesome. I was pretty wrecked and it hit all the right feels
How cool is that !!! Way cool
Hope to experience it someday
Ahh! The Dungeon.
Open at midnight close at 9:00Am and the best sound system ever.
If, you could find it.
@@capecoraltrans Well I mean dungeons aren't easy to find...sorry, someone had to say it!
Just experienced that place a few weeks ago, good stuff!
Takes me back to 1990 takes me back to my Goth day's 🦇🦇🦇🦇🖤💜🖤💜 miss it Hollywood day's 🤘🎸 when music ruled 💯💯💯
Yup. ❤❤ And seeing them perform
After all these decades, Concrete Blonde is still one of my favorite bands.
"Bloodletting" is one of the greatest all-around albums in any genre. There's not a bad song on it, and even the B-side to 'Joey' IIRC 'I Want You,' is great!
One of my favorite bands of all time. Johnette absolutely rocks!
Basically the BEST DAMN FEMALE FRONTED BAND EVER....one of my muses and biggest musical infuluences... I couldn't imagine not having her voice in my life
The definition of underrated. She’s like a pirate leading a sea shanty
ummm no.....if for no other reason than Ann Wilson. and then Siouxsie Sioux...then Shirley Manson...
@@tstantonjr oh..I agree..but her voice is one that influenced me.
@@wraithgirl2156 i didn't think you could change my mind, but you did....goodness on you.
Saw them open for Sting in like 1990 or so. They were f****g awesome! Much better than Sting.
Johnette Napolitano is in my top 5 singers of all time. I say her name and people don't know who she is. That is a crime. She should be better known than Cardi B.
awesome group and never achieved the staus or respect they should have. What isa Cardi B?
When she is in town I will let Jo know that.
Mmmm those pipes!!! One of the best female vocalists ever! I try to sing a long with her, my throat is always sore when Im done 😂
Mine too!! Lol
I love when Concrete Blonde randomly shows up on my homepage. I have to have a listen every time
That's cool. Didn't know Mario had good taste in music. :)
Me too😍
Her voice captures the essence of this song 100%
Its not fall until Johnette sings to me. Best female vocals ever. Love you woman
Johnette Forever :) Awesome Band.
The passing of Anne Rice brought me here this evening. Still one of my all-time favorite albums.
Halloween anthem 😈
The first time I ever heard this song was at the old Pink Pussy Cat gentleman's club in Knoxville Tennessee on my buddy Snake's 18th birthday!!! A lady came out in a red cape dressed as a vampiress and proceeded to dance and take her clothes off!!! What a memory. RIP Snake.
I had a very similar experience. My first trip to a strip club was in San Juan when I was 18, and one chick came out to a strobe light with Di Hast playing. Mind = blown.
❤
@@gregkosinski2303 the best music can always be found at a strip joint! 😂
One of the sexiest baselines ever .. fantastic drums... A fantastic spooky song
Awesome song it rocks
Love her voice
Saw them at Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ awsome back in 90's!
One of my best friends, a long haired blonde guy named Kurt Shilling, turned me on to this song in the mid- nineties. Kurt died in a motorcycle crash, down by a lake, not concentrating because he had a bad situation with a girl heavy on his mind.😢💔 It was the same day that Princess Di died in a car chase in Paris. I was so devastated that I had no idea she'd died until many weeks later. That was over twenty- seven years ago now....& I think about him & miss him regularly. He was only thirty- three years old. I love you, man.
I didn't put it together until just a few minutes ago, but Rob zombie straight up jacked this riff for his song house of 1000 corpses
Yyup . WITH no attribution of course . SNEER .
There's a crack in the mirror
And a bloodstain on my bed
There's a crack in the mirror
And a bloodstain on my bed
Oh, you were a vampire
And baby, I'm the walking dead
I got the ways and means
To New Orleans
I'm going down by the river
Where it's warm and green
I'm gonna have a drink and walk around
I got a lot to think about
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
There's a rocking chair by the window
Down the hall
There's a rocking chair by the window
Down the hall
Oh, you were a vampire
And now I am nothing at all
I got the ways and means
To New Orleans
I'm going down by the river
Where it's warm and green
I'm gonna have a drink and walk around
I got a lot to think about
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
🧛🏼♀️🩸🦇🎃
I made a cool lyric video for this song
ua-cam.com/video/rJdU0blCLMs/v-deo.html
This song and album have been an integral part of my life for 31 years and I hope for many more years to come
Exactly
Same ❤️
Bloodletting, Joey and Song number 10…Tomorrow Wendy! This CD stayed in my rotation along with Peter Murphy, Echo and the Bunnymen, R.E.M., Depeche, Live, etc.
I have found them all over again through a friend. My ears have never heard anything so sonically appealing once again!! All the pop stars and Internet sensations with there empty souls could never even come close to this band and this Woman!!
Concrete Blonde.....Hardcore as it gets.....Johnette voice and bass guitar.....this girl gets your blood pumping.....
Such an incredible album from 1990. It has aged so well.
From south Louisiana, I love this ish!! Grew up on it and still dig it!!
From Vernon Parish currently living in Texas and loving this song
The fact that Concrete Blonde is still not in the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame is a travesty
Yes . Absurd .
This came out when I was 12, my mom and I used to jam it together. We don’t talk. But I still love Concrete Blonde.
One my 7 year old grand daughters favorite songs and I agree with her 🙃🙂
Love this band
I’m 67 where has Concrete Blonde been my whole life!
It's never too late. Welcome aboard!
Thanks!
I'm 62 and concrete blondes have been my all time favorite bands...
love that voice
A song as eternal as the Vampires themselves.
I always loved CB their songs always told a story ... and it was so cool to sing along to.
Was feeling a little nostalgic and looked up Tomorrow, Wendy. That led me here and now I think I'm gonna be on a concrete blonde jag for a while. Where my 90s kids at?
I’m very late to the game on this band. They were noticed by MTV and the cool kids in 1990. I was 9 and 10 at the time and my parents forbade MTV to be shown in my house. So I missed out on one of the best but practically unnoticed bands of the 1980s and 1990s. But UA-cam exists now and I’m on board until I leave this planet altogether. Great, awesome, fantastic band.
VH-1 in particular.
Absolutely love this band ❤
She needs to be in the rock Hall of Fame!
They needed to have done more like this album. 🍻
No bullshit! NOBODY KNOWS
@@keithkruse69 lol..Exactly!!
Yes eternally
This is an alternate version of the video, I much prefer the original (also posted on youtube but in a very low quality image) with Johnette wearing the goth lolita outfit in most of the scenes. I fell in love with it from the very 1st time I saw it in the summer of 1991.
do you have a link for me to be able to view that one it would be really appreciated
@@Glock111 ua-cam.com/video/lQYTNNHc1cQ/v-deo.html
@@Glock111 A little bit late, but it's here: ua-cam.com/video/lQYTNNHc1cQ/v-deo.html
@@Glock111 here you go ua-cam.com/video/lQYTNNHc1cQ/v-deo.html
I agree, the darker version with the church bells is even better
I love this song and I love this album
Wow blast from the past here, haven't heard this song since the 90s
Good God almighty, I’d forgotten how much I loved Concrete Blonde!
I effin' love this band
Tiny Tim played a badass solo. The chorus effect really made it more spooky! I love this!
Love it. Love Concrete Blonde
This women is amazing love her voice
One of the best songs ever.
If Anne Rice had a soundtrack...
A thousand mortal lives I have lived and this one still gets me feelin long in the tooth.
Thank you, First Wave and Richard Blade for introducing this song to me!!
a voice of gold
My driven instructor was playing song when I was getting my license back in the 90s. So cool.
The best vampire song ever!
This song is my new favorite. Vampire love. This band is really amazing
I made a cool lyric video for the song ua-cam.com/video/rJdU0blCLMs/v-deo.html
Used to dance my heart out to this in the early 90s.
Haven't listened to this in far, far too long...Happy Halloween all!!
One of my very favorites.
Great album. Still have it and listen to it 🤘
Saw them at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto in the 90s. Epic concert... RESPECT, RESPECT, RESPECT!
May 1st 2022 ....I still love this whole album
i came across this song on music choice sound of the seasons i love it
Radi chick rock I I totally forgot about this great song! Thanks for putting it up to give it some life 😜🧡👻😻😻😻😻😻😻💙💜💚💛🧡❤💜💚💛🧡💙💜🖤🤍🧡💚💚💙🤍🖤❤🖤🤍🖤❤🤍🖤❤🤍🖤❤
Its the theme song of the Interview with the vampire basically❤️
I love the song and the baseline is so cool !
I've got this on my Spotify list , never get tired of it .
Wow Thank You So Much for the 1080p!
I'm such a Fan Of This Video!
I have listened the liveversion of this song .I find that version better because of the guitarsound that's much more creepier .🎸🎸 and the fantastic voice of johnette
The absolute best 90s female band 🔥
Gawd I miss music like this
Bar le Arlequin, Québec, fin des années quatre -vingt dix, the good old days!
Girls in black corsets and leather...the aroma of Clove cigarettes and Wild Turkey...this
song blasting outta the boom
box on the wall.
Back in the days when we ruled it all...
Wicked!
My friends father introduced me to this song a couple of years ago I'm now 21 and still think about this song whenever I hear bloodletting brought up in any conversation.
I love this song.
It creeps me out :)
Such a beautiful song
I'm SURE the iwtv tv series writers heard this song and we're like "we gotta make this come true in every single way"
Hi, so I'm a theater kid and normally avoid stuff like this, but it scratches the Rocky Horror and Hadestown itch that i have. I approve!
Huh ? By you , theater kids avoid rock n roll /vampire music ?? Because NO .
The perfect Halloween song
Infinitely re-listenable album.
Awesome band with Johnette at the front! ✌️
Great song
Awesome Awesome album🖤!!!!
The solo is HEAVENLY
I think I just found my new favorite song. I heard this on public radio at 8:23 am on the Fri before Halloween. I've been up all night, so what?🤷🍄🤘
My 1 favourite song all year long
I believe great music was being produced for decades and got really good and ended in the 90s. The world hasn’t been the same since, it’s like something has stolen everyone’s souls
The 90s ruined everything. I remember as a youth actually crying while watching Never Being Boring by the Pet Shop Boys. That video (for me) set the tone of the 90s: sex and sensationalism. So depressing.
I think the end of the Cold War with Russia made everybody start feeling hopeful again and even though a lot of the music was dark it was kind of about survival. It feels like now people are feeling hopeless for other reasons and their trying to white-wash it with bubble-gum girl-pop to hide the fear. I still find bands here and there that evoke emotions I enjoy though. Pink for instance has a sarcasm to her lyrics that make me laugh. :)
I believe you've been filled by the extending arm of polyoply and need to maybe find good venues and street art where plenty of good music exists and thrives. If your just searching the internet and radio than your going to find yourself with more of the soulless subject material
@@derinaries That's how I feel, although I largely feel it's MTV and the RIAA's fault. They pushed alternative bands so hard to bulldoze over various talented bands, only for a lot of those to drop off the face the earth. Hell, while there were good bands they also pushed forgettable, no talented hacks to the forefront as well who couldn't sing.
Some how, MTV has it stuck in their minds to produce nothing but low class, reality Tv shows even when it's been exposed that a lot of stuff was staged.
They said they were going to change things, but I have yet to see it. I wish it would go back to being music television, with animated series and comedy shows like they used to have.
That would be because crap music took over...
What a voice
Ways and means ,,, to New Orleans .
I had that in late 2008 .
Was one of the best experiences of my life ;)
Driving over the sunshine bridge with the sun in my face & a dirty windshield .
It don't get no better for building character .
this shoulda been used in True Blood!!!!
Been saying it for over a decade
@@jeffreyjulian7657 nice
They did in one episode.
It should have been in Interview with the Vampire, which takes place in New Orleans a lot
Oh I loved that! Clicked on this video, no commercial righ down the rabbit hole free fall. 😎