Biography

This Hollywood-based power trio revolved around the gritty, emotive vocals and melodic story-telling of singer-songwriter Johnette Napolitano, and was fleshed out by the pop-psych swirl of James Mankey's supple guitar-playing. Like many bands in the late 1980s, they skirted the edges of classic rock, while presenting a vaguely punky persona, and as their MTV-driven fame grew, they crept closer to a goth aesthetic while never quite abandoning pop hooks. After four well-received albums and one radio perennial (the uber-catchy "Happy Birthday"), the band dissolved. A 2001 reunion resulted in some spirited live shows and recordings, and Napolitano has also enjoyed a busy solo career.

Top Tracks

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• (ghost) Riders In The Sky

• Bloodletting (the Vampire Song)

• City Screaming

• Everybody Knows

• God Is A Bullet

• Happy Birthday

• Heal It Up

• Inside/outside

• It'll Chew You Up And Spit You Out

• Joey

• Little Wing

• Mexican Moon

• Someone's Calling Me

• Still In Hollywood

• Sun

• The "a" Road

• Tomorrow, Wendy

• True

• Violent

• Walking In London

• Woman To Woman

• Your Llorona

Discography

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• Mojave

  Eleven Thirty Records

  2004

• Live In Brazil

  ARK 21

  2003

• Group Therapy

  Manifesto Records

  2002

• Concrete Blonde y los Illegals

  ARK 21

  1997

• Mexican Moon

  Capitol/EMI Records / IRS

  1993

• Walking in London

  IRS

  1992

• Bloodletting

  IRS

  1990