Psycho Café

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Psycho Café
BangTangoPsychoCafe.png
Studio album by
Bang Tango
ReleasedMay 29, 1989
Genre
Length41:21
LabelMCA[1]
ProducerHoward Benson
Bang Tango chronology
Live Injection
(1989) 		Psycho Café
(1989) 		Dancin' On Coals
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4/5 stars[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[1]

Psycho Café is the first full-length album from the band Bang Tango.[3][4] 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."[2] 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 200 chart in 1989.[5]

The music video for "Someone Like You" was a staple of 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 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[]

All songs written and composed by Joe Leste, Tigg Ketler, Mark Knight, Kyle Kyle and Kyle Stevens

  1. "Attack of Life" – 4:18
  2. "Someone like You" – 4:20
  3. "Wrap My Wings" – 4:44
  4. "Breaking up a Heart of Stone" – 4:55
  5. "Shotgun Man" – 3:20
  6. "Don't Stop Now" – 3:26
  7. "Love Injection" – 4:31
  8. "Just for You" – 4:06
  9. "Do What You're Told" – 3:21
  10. "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[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 1: MUZE. p. 403.CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Psycho Cafe - Bang Tango | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music. Greenwood Press. 2009. p. 32.
  4. ^ "Bang Tango | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ^ "Bang Tango Psycho Cafe Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  6. ^ Wake, Matt (2017-11-07). "The 10 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the Hair Metal Era". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  7. ^ "50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  8. ^ "The Hair Metal 100: Ranking the '80s Greatest Glam Bands, Part 4". VH1 News. Retrieved 2018-05-22.



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