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After spending several years in the embryonic form of Dream
6 (under which name they released an EP for Happy Hermit in
France), Hollywood, California, USA rock band Concrete
Blonde formed in 1986.

The founders of the group, former Sparks’s personnel Earle
(production) and Jim Mankey (guitars) plus Johnette
Napolitano (bass, vocals), were joined by Harry Rushakoff
(drums) for their debut on I.R.S. Records. Its alluring mix
of energy, sensitivity and streetwise wit secured Concrete
Blonde a positive response from both the music press More...

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still a tear jerker | Reviewer: allen
------ About the song Tomorrow, Wendy performed by Concrete Blonde

The song still makes me cry a little after all these years, friends I've lost from a life I used to live growing up in long beach,ca somehow I'm still alive, I used to party hard, some friends I had lost to aids, some hiv, some to some hepatitis, some just flat out disappeared, and some of them had aids or hiv choose to take themselves out rather than fight I will never begrudge or never did I judge them for their choice, somehow I lived through it healthy, and I've always wondered if they where the lucky ones

addiction | Reviewer: kayla
------ About the song Joey performed by Concrete Blonde

This song is surely about addiction in a relationship. The guy (joey) is addicted to drugs or alcohol. Or both maybe. That's what it means when it says "joey I got the money" he needs his drugs and doesn't have the money. So she gives him money for it becuz she doesn't want to see him hurt in withdrawal. Yet it hurts her when he's using too. And she got in a fight with him over his using but now he's gone and she worries so she says "if ur somewhere passed out on the floor I'm not angry anymore" cuz she just wants him back. Whether he uses or not. The lyrics for the fences part I think are "expensive fences" because the drugs are his "fences" against life and they are expensive but it also puts a fence up in the relationship when she has to give him the money for the expensive drug addiction. And she gets defensive when they fight about the drugs. She got in a fight with him over his using and now she's apologizing to get him back. It shows how ppl get controlled by their addiction when they get hooked on drugs and how it makes the ppl who love them controlled by the addiction too. Becuz she just wants to love him no matter what it means.she's weak cuz she just wants him back even if he still uses at the end. She was strong enough to stand up to him and tell him to stop the drug use but when he left and used she worried so she would rather be weak and not angry if she gets to love him at least. Even if it means paying for his drugs and seeing him use to be happy.

Let me share an experience... | Reviewer: Alexandra
------ About the song Joey performed by Concrete Blonde

I heard the end of the song on the radio today. I only heard the words "Joey, I'm not angry anymore", but those words meant so much to me. Right when i got home I looked up the lyrics and was shocked. My ex-boyfriend's name is Joey. We were so in love. Well, 6 months ago he got sent away to a Wilderness program for nine weeks and immediately after went to boarding school, very far away for his drug abuse. I suffered in indescribably pain for these 6 months that I haven't seen him. 6 MONTHS. Unbearable suffering. I would literally "cry till I was dry". After two months of his "extinction", he reentered my life through e-mail and a once-a-week phone call. Hearing his voice and talking to him for hours on end, however, actually increased my depression because I was not able to see him, touch him...it was as though he were a far-away dream. He had been telling me he was coming home on his birthday (which was in October). But he didn't come home, and he told me he wasn't going to be coming home until next August. Well, when he told me this, something inside of me woke up. "It's time to move on now...you can't keep holding onto this...he is a part of the past, and it's time to focus on what is in front of you," a voice inside my head was telling me. I realized I can't hang onto him anymore, it's too unhealthy. We have cut off all communication, and I feel like a new person. I'm really pulling through. I still think about him all the time, but I can't keep living like this. Oh Joey, I'm not angry anymore!

concrete blonde | Reviewer: BYRONI
------ About the song Tomorrow, Wendy performed by Concrete Blonde

johnette has this voice that, even when the song is more upbeat still carries this depth and pain like no other. "tomorrow, wendy", though written by a. prieboy, no other singer could make it as heart-wrenching. In Carry Me Away", the memory and lonliness of a failed relationship is so apparent that it brings those emotions out of the listener as well.

Detours, Fences??? | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Joey performed by Concrete Blonde

Hey, does anyone actually know what the lyrics is in the second line?... All of the interpretations say Detours.. Fences, I get defensive.... I've listened to that a zillion times and, although it sort of makes sense, it simply sounds like something else... something like 'expenses'.. or .. 'expensive'. or.. 'too expensive'.???

The song is about drug abuse and co-dependency. | Reviewer: Methadras
------ About the song Joey performed by Concrete Blonde

The money reference is her getting it for him so he can get his other fix and that's all he uses her for even though she is his enabler and she loves him. Later in the song she references that she doesn't want to see him passed out on the floor which is in reference to his drug abuse. The song is about deep co-dependence and how we are willing to overlook the deep flaws of the ones we love and will do anything to keep the peace between each other for the sake of the illusion of love and that if we love someone hard enough they will come around, yet never do.

The money issue.. | Reviewer: Stych
------ About the song Joey performed by Concrete Blonde

The "money" reference has always sounded to me as though some money was lent, ie. from the singer-character to Joey; that this debt factored badly in the breakup. I've seen this happen enough, and I've been there myself. Perhaps that is why it's the first thing comes to mind on hearing it. Joey may have discreetly repaid her in his shame, and she is letting him know that she has indeed received it; or, conversely, she has become a success and no longer needs repayment, and is telling him "no worries"... While I don't necessarily disagree with the other theories, I hate to think that she's trying to buy "peace" by saying she can afford to keep him in his habits. That is far too low, far too ugly for such a beautiful and compassionate work of art!

tomorrow wendy | Reviewer: jane weir
------ About the song Tomorrow, Wendy performed by Concrete Blonde

I heard somewhere that this songs lyrics referred to an act of euthanasia - Origin early 17th century in the sense [easy death] from the greek eu 'well' + thanatos 'death'. It makes sense with the lyrics 'Only God says jump, So I set the time' thats how they know that it is tomorrow that Wendy is going to die. Beautiful gutsy song though in every sense.

Joey | Reviewer: jess
------ About the song Joey performed by Concrete Blonde

i was having an affair with my joey. we were both married. He stuggled as did i about our situation.He would always stay a while and leave, then come back again when things were bad. The money part i can relate to..(lets just go away together). But reality isnt the same. Although this song is probably about joey being an alcoholic or drug addict.I suppose itcan be just about joey not knowing how to deal with his pain.

Personal life experiences!/Love this song! | Reviewer: Mackenzie
------ About the song Joey performed by Concrete Blonde

well actually my ex's name is joey and im still very much in love with him. he started talking to me again and wanting to get closer to me again, and he was telling me he loved me and stuff again. but previously he had left me for his ex, so i thought it would be the same this time. well we were getting really closer to each other again, and i thought it would finally be my chance, but he got mad at me one day and found someone else and asked her out on the spot! i was and am still crushed. this happened a week ago, and i dont know what to do. i really do love him, but he has her now. this isnt the first time hes picked someone else over me, and i hope we will have a chance again. im just sooo confused on wat to do??? i realy care about him and want my chance but i dont think it will ever come!!! i wish and hope it will but i have a feeling it wont, that ill always be the girl that he messes with her head! i wish i wasnt but i guess i am. this song really hits home with me and its got his name in it and has similar struggles in it. im not angry at him anymore but im still in love with him, but i guess i should stop caring about him because its obviously never going to be my chance!!! =::[

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