Psycho Café
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| Psycho Café | ||||
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| Released | May 29, 1989 | |||
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| Length | 41:21 | |||
| Label | MCA[1] | |||
| Producer | Howard Benson | |||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [1] |
Psycho Café is the first full-length album by American rock band Bang Tango.[3][4] It was released in 1989.
Critical reception[edit]
AllMusic wrote that "this excellent album demonstrates that not all bands that were part of L.A. glam metal in the late '80s/early '90s played mindless fluff."[2] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called Psycho Cafe "a refreshingly honest, but slightly offbeat, hard rock album."[1]
Legacy[edit]
Psycho Café peaked at number 58 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1989.[5]
The music video for "Someone Like You" was a staple of early 1990s MTV. The album was reissued reissued on CD by Rock Candy Records in September 2022.
Accolades[edit]
"Someone Like You" was featured at number 9 in LA Weekly's "The 10 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the Hair Metal Era" list.[6]
Psycho Café landed at number 37 on Rolling Stone's 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time list.[7]
Bang Tango came in at number 36 on VH1's Hair Metal 100 Countdown list, which cited Psycho Café as "taking hair metal in a direction that, in large part, led to the genre's undoing." It also stated that had the album come out a year later, it would have been more lumped in with the alternative metal at the time.[8]
Track listing[edit]
All songs written and composed by Joe Leste, Tigg Ketler, Mark Knight, Kyle Kyle and Kyle Stevens
- "Attack of Life" – 4:18
- "Someone like You" – 4:20
- "Wrap My Wings" – 4:44
- "Breaking up a Heart of Stone" – 4:55
- "Shotgun Man" – 3:20
- "Don't Stop Now" – 3:26
- "Love Injection" – 4:31
- "Just for You" – 4:06
- "Do What You're Told" – 3:21
- "Sweet Little Razor" – 4:20
Personnel[edit]
Bang Tango[edit]
- Joe Lesté – lead vocals
- Mark Knight – guitar
- Kyle Stevens – guitar
- Kyle Kyle – bass
- Tigg Ketler – drums
Production[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 403.
- ^ a b "Psycho Cafe - Bang Tango | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music. Greenwood Press. 2009. p. 32.
- ^ "Bang Tango | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ "Bang Tango Psycho Cafe Chart History". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 21, 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
- ^ Wake, Matt (November 7, 2017). "The 10 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the Hair Metal Era". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
- ^ "50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
- ^ "The Hair Metal 100: Ranking the '80s Greatest Glam Bands, Part 4". VH1 News. Archived from the original on September 26, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
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