Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
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| Single by Concrete Blonde | ||||
| from the album Bloodletting | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Recorded | August 1989 – February 1990 at Battery Studios, London Additional Recording at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood and Can-Am Recording, Tarzana and John Keane Studio, Athens, GA | |||
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| Label | I.R.S. | |||
| Songwriter | Johnette Napolitano | |||
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"Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)" is a song by American rock band Concrete Blonde. The track was released as a single and appears as an opening track from the group's album Bloodletting (1990). The song, written and sung by frontwoman Johnette Napolitano, shows the band embracing the Goth subculture, while retaining the alternative rock sound of their previous two albums. Napolitano was inspired by her experiences in New Orleans and reading The Vampire Chronicles series in the late 1980s. Contrary to its name, the song is about the loss of human happiness, not horror or blood.
A single was released by I.R.S. in 1990. While not as successful as the album's second single, "Joey" and never reaching any major music charts, the song is considered the band's second biggest hit.