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Psycho Cafe by Bang Tango
Psycho Cafe is an album by Bang Tango, released in 1989. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Someone Like You”, on 2 lists with a best position of #612.
Psycho Café, Bang Tango's first full-length, came out on MCA in 1989, barely a year after the Los Angeles band formed and got snapped up in a label bidding war off the back of packed Sunset Strip clubs. Howard Benson produced, and the five-piece, Joe Lesté up front, Mark Knight and Kyle Stevens on guitars, Kyle Keiderling on bass and Tigg Ketler on drums, sound hungrier and stranger than the hair-spray pack around them. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music heard honest but slightly offbeat hard rock, and AllMusic made the case that not every band on that glam scene was peddling fluff.
"Someone Like You" was the calling card, its video a fixture on MTV's Dial MTV and Headbangers Ball, and LA Weekly later counted it among the hair metal era's great one-hit wonders. Rolling Stone ranked the album itself 37th among the 50 greatest hair metal albums of all time.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Psycho Cafe on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone Like You | 2 | #612 | – | 1990–2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.