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Psycho Café | ||||
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Released | May 29, 1989 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 41:21 | |||
Label | MCA [1] | |||
Producer | Howard Benson | |||
Bang Tango chronology | ||||
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Psycho Café is the first full-length album by American rock band Bang Tango. [3] [4] It was released in 1989.
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]
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 on CD by Rock Candy Records in September 2022.
"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]
All songs written and composed by Joe Leste, Tigg Ketler, Mark Knight, Kyle Kyle and Kyle Stevens
Chart (1989) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200 [9] | 58 |
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (August 2020) |
Psycho Café | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | May 29, 1989 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 41:21 | |||
Label | MCA [1] | |||
Producer | Howard Benson | |||
Bang Tango chronology | ||||
|
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Psycho Café is the first full-length album by American rock band Bang Tango. [3] [4] It was released in 1989.
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]
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 on CD by Rock Candy Records in September 2022.
"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]
All songs written and composed by Joe Leste, Tigg Ketler, Mark Knight, Kyle Kyle and Kyle Stevens
Chart (1989) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200 [9] | 58 |