Psycho Café
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| Psycho Café | ||||
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| Released | May 29, 1989 | |||
| Genre | Glam metal | |||
| Length | 41:21 | |||
| Label | MCA[1] | |||
| Producer | Howard Benson | |||
| Bang Tango chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [1] |
Psycho Café is the first full-length album from the band Bang Tango.[3] It was released in 1989.
Critical reception
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."[4] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called Psycho Cafe "a refreshingly honest, but slightly offbeat, hard rock album."[1]
Legacy
Psycho Café peaked at number 58 on the Billboard top 200 chart in 1989.[5]
The music video for Someone Like You was a staple on early 1990s MTV.
Accolades
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 for 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 citing Psycho Café as "taking hair metal in a direction that, in large part, led to the genre's undoing". Also stating 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
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
Bang Tango
- Joe Lesté – lead vocals
- Mark Knight – guitar
- Kyle Stevens – guitar
- Kyle Kyle – bass
- Tigg Ketler – drums
Production
References
- ^ a b c Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 1: MUZE. p. 403.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/psycho-cafe-mw0000653675
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bang-tango-mn0000146478/biography
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/psycho-cafe-mw0000653675
- ^ "Bang Tango Psycho Cafe Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
- ^ Wake, Matt (2017-11-07). "The 10 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the Hair Metal Era". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
- ^ "50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "The Hair Metal 100: Ranking the '80s Greatest Glam Bands, Part 4". VH1 News. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
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