Bloodletting

Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting

Bloodletting
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Artist: Concrete Blonde
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-08-24
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
  1. Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
  2. The Sky Is a Poisonous Garden
  3. Caroline
  4. Darkening of the Light
  5. I Don't Need a Hero
  6. Days and Days
  7. The Beast
  8. Lullabye
  9. Joey
  10. Tomorrow, Wendy

Free Music Notes for Bloodletting

Free Music Review: Great rock theology
Hit: 5 Stars

Calling a CD "bloodletting" is some indication that it might have something terrible about it. The first song mentions "You were a vampire" in a clear contrast to the Chorus:

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

There are times when something incredibly stupid can be the perfect thing to say in a rock song. In this first song, "And I may never see the light" captures the vampire theme exquisitely.

The second song, `the sky is a Poisonous garden' combines the fever you hold with this night deathly cold.

Rock can set a mood by giving a song the name of a person, and this CD has three songs that strive to capture the essence of a person. The first is about someone who was `only passing through but that's all you'll ever do.' The great line in `Caroline' is

and I never wonder where you went
I only wonder why

`Joey' is a bit more sympathetic, starting with `Joey, Baby -- don't get crazy.' This all relates to

I just stand by and watch you
fight your secret war.

There is a lot in this song to try to understand.

and if I seem to be confused
I didn't mean to be with you.
And when you said I scared you,
Well I guess you scared me too.
But we got lucky once before
And if you're somewhere out there
passed out on the floor.
Oh Joey, I'm not angry anymore.

The final song, `tomorrow, Wendy' has one of the lines that would usually be incredibly stupid to say: `tomorrow Wendy's going to die.' Even if Wendy is going to die someday, betting on tomorrow seems a bit harsh, and a theology weirdly creeps into this setting like it's wearing combat boots.

They say -- Goodbye -- tomorrow Wendy's going to die
underneath the chilly grey November sky
we can make believe
that Kennedy is still alive
we're shooting for the moon and smiling
Jackie's driving by

They say -- good try --
tomorrow Wendy's going to die
I told the priest -- don't count on
any second coming
God got his ass kicked the first time he
came down here slumming
He had the balls to come, the gall to die
and then forgive us --
No, I don't wonder why
I wonder what he thought
it would get us -- hey hey, good try --
tomorrow Wendy's going to die.

`tomorrow, Wendy' is the last song on the CD, and I believe there are additional words after the first 3 minutes of that song which are not printed in the CD liner notes, but which sound like `only God sent junk' and `if he ever saw it it would surely blow your mind.' The point seems more Johnette Napolitano's ability to express emotion than to clearly enunciate a rock theology, so the use of a familiar sacred scene for all the agony which can be wrung out of it might be clearer than any words could be.

I could pick out words in the other songs that would make this CD sound dreary. In `Darkening of the light,' the verse and chorus keep asking, `Are you there?' `i don't need a hero' plays with that theme like a lottery which runs in an endless circle. `Days and days' has the superb lines:

at the crossroads of a minute
and you and me were in it.

The song `the Beast' mentions LOVE thirteen times. The other song on this CD is called `Lullabye' and has 19 lines in the CD liner notes. Two lines end with mother, which gets to rhyme with shoulder, forever, familiar, another forever, together, remember, another forever, another, and brother.

There is a variety of musical styles on this CD. I only liked a few songs for the first year or so, and since `bloodletting' was rarely the first song I wanted to hear, I have not played this CD as often as I would if the emotional play was not so difficult. I don't mix and match songs much, so this CD is likely to always be the only one in my collection that ends with the song, `tomorrow, Wendy' which is so great that I'm always likely to want to play it when I want to make believe that Kennedy is still alive, but know, really,

They say -- good try --
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