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Psycho Café is the first full-length album from the band Bang Tango.[3][4] It was released in 1989.

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Psycho Café
Studio album by Bang Tango
Released	May 29, 1989
Genre	Glam metal hard rock funk rock
Length	41:21
Label	MCA[1]
Producer	Howard Benson
Bang Tango chronology
Live Injection (1989) Psycho Café (1989) Dancin' On Coals (1991)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[1]

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. The album will be reissued on CD by Rock Candy Records on August 26 2022.

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

• Howard Benson – production

References

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