80s Cheez 05 - Bourgeois Tagg's eponymous debut
Bourgeois Tagg - Bourgeois Tagg
01 - Changed
02 - The Perfect Life
03 - Heart of Darkness
04 - Body Count
05 - Dying to Be Free
06 - Mutual Surrender (What A Wonderful World)
07 - The Move Up
08 - Electric Train
09 - Let The War Begin
When last we visited 80s land I gave you the chance to hear the album Yo-Yo by the band Bourgeois Tagg. And being a lazy blogging twat I didn't check my facts and said it was their first and only album. As a commenter pointed out I was wrong in that assumption.
But, here thanks to the fact that somebody, somewhere is selling whatever the fuck you want on fleabay, is a Japanese import of the first album, ripped at 320. Being kind it's "of historical interest". A little weaker in the song writing than Yo-Yo and way more 80s in the production, the annoying kind too, especially the white-boy slap bass.
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80s
5 Comments:
Thanks for posting this, it's been missing from the web for too long. True that it's problematic production-wise but "Mutual Surrender" deserves to be heard as an actual '80s hit that carried a political message. Sure its couched in a love song (just like how TV can get away with social commentary when it's disguised as science fiction; see the new Battlestar Galactica for the latest and best example), but I always heard it as a protest song -- remember the nuclear phrase of the time was "Mutual Assured Destruction".
maybe i shouldnt have told you about the st album?..lol , Ok well
Brent Bourgeois had a minor hit "dare to fall in love in 1990", which might add to the cheez factor but it sounds rnb, i mean the fake rnb sound of the 90's and all since...the drummer in bourgeois tagg, was in smash mouth for 6 years as well
I have been trying to get away from the 80's since the 80's and I can't. Thanks for sharing some of the better mainstream music from that decade
Thanks so much for sharing. I have been looking for this for years - in 1986 I was in college and one of the girls on my floor bought it and I recorded "Move Up" on a cassette tape. Not remembering later who the band was nor what the song was called, I've been periodically entering the words "Lyrics Elegant Interim" into Google. I didn't find Bourgeois Tagg until yesterday.
Cool! This is what makes it worth sharing out of print stuff from the past (and who would have guessed in the far off days of '86 that it would so soon become so far in the past?)
Hope it lives up to the memories. Finding half remembered things from the mists of time can often be a bit of a disappointment. But sometimes, when looked at from the right angle and with a bit of a squint it's magic.
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