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Re: Song: "Joey"
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:11 pm
by rsmurphy
I've had this song going in-and-out of my head for almost a week. The Private Dancer trick for eradication doesn't work since I like that song too.
Re: Song: "Joey"
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:54 pm
by trey
dontfeartheringo wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:51 pm
trey wrote: Wed Jun 04, 2025 1:38 pm
Not Crap. I've had a soft spot for Concrete Blonde since I first heard them, around 1983. Johnette seems like a super interesting person. I like 'Joey', but I like 'Happy Birthday' more. I saw them play in a tiny bar in Statesboro GA around 1989. Pretty amazing show.
Rockin Eagle?
That sounds about right. My roommate was in the Savannah band City of Lindas. They opened the show. You probably crossed paths with them at some point. I think they were kinda snobby and didn't like most other bands. When my first band came back to Savannah to play our first show in the city, some of them came to see us, and left before we finished.
Re: Song: "Joey"
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 8:55 pm
by The Yeoman Ghost
Jacques wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:21 am
I know this isn't the case, but Concrete Blonde always seemed like hair-metal dorks trying to be goth and failing. Bad song, bad band.
CRAP.
I’ve always considered them an evolutionary missing link between 80s hair metal and 90s alternative. They were an 80s L.A. band—indeed, I wonder if any band outside of X spent more time obsessing over the demimonde of Los Angeles—that was both a little too ahead of its time, and too much
of its time.
Re: Song: "Joey"
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:28 pm
by dontfeartheringo
trey wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:54 pm
dontfeartheringo wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:51 pm
trey wrote: Wed Jun 04, 2025 1:38 pm
Not Crap. I've had a soft spot for Concrete Blonde since I first heard them, around 1983. Johnette seems like a super interesting person. I like 'Joey', but I like 'Happy Birthday' more. I saw them play in a tiny bar in Statesboro GA around 1989. Pretty amazing show.
Rockin Eagle?
That sounds about right. My roommate was in the Savannah band City of Lindas. They opened the show. You probably crossed paths with them at some point. I think they were kinda snobby and didn't like most other bands. When my first band came back to Savannah to play our first show in the city, some of them came to see us, and left before we finished.
When we played with them, Dan thought they were called "City of Windows," and made sure to thank them using that name during our set.
Hilarity ensued. (They were not amused.)
Re: Song: "Joey"
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:54 pm
by Krev
This band definitely had a hair metal aspect. I like this song and a couple others, but a lot of this album is bad.
Re: Song: "Joey"
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 11:07 pm
by trey
dontfeartheringo wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:28 pm
trey wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:54 pm
That sounds about right. My roommate was in the Savannah band City of Lindas. They opened the show. You probably crossed paths with them at some point. I think they were kinda snobby and didn't like most other bands. When my first band came back to Savannah to play our first show in the city, some of them came to see us, and left before we finished.
When we played with them, Dan thought they were called "City of Windows," and made sure to thank them using that name during our set.
Hilarity ensued. (They were not amused.)
So good.
Re: Song: "Joey"
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 2:05 am
by joe_lmr
Jacques wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:21 am
I know this isn't the case, but Concrete Blonde always seemed like hair-metal dorks trying to be goth and failing. Bad song, bad band.
CRAP.
so they seemed like what Sisters of Mercy actually are
Re: Song: "Joey"
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 7:57 am
by losthighway
joe_lmr wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 2:05 am
Jacques wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:21 am
I know this isn't the case, but Concrete Blonde always seemed like hair-metal dorks trying to be goth and failing. Bad song, bad band.
CRAP.
so they seemed like what Sisters of Mercy actually are
Shots fired.
Re: Song: "Joey"
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:28 am
by zorg
Just because you have a crimp-haired witchy woman in the band doesn't make X, Fleetwood Mac, or Concrete Blonde into Fields of the Nephilim. Definitely more LA than anything.
Re: Song: "Joey"
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:33 am
by kicker_of_elves
Concrete Blonde is the band that launched a thousand Boss Phaser pedals.