Bourgeois Tagg - Yoyo

Name: Bourgeois Tagg
Album: Yoyo
Year: 1987
Style: Loungey New Wave
Similar Bands: Spandau Ballet, Crowded House, late 80's Squeeze, late 80's XTC
"One-Word" Review: Adult Contemporary New Wave
Based Out Of: Sacramento, CA
Label: Island

Cover, Record, Sleeve

Back, Record, Sleeve

Record b-side

Yoyo (1987)

1. Best of All Possible Worlds 3:58
2. Cry Like a Baby 3:25 (single)
3. Pencil & Paper 4:03
4. Out of My Mind 4:02
5. 15 Minutes in the Sun 3:46 /
6. Waiting for the Worm to Turn 4:02 (single)
7. I Don't Mind at All 2:33 (single)
8. What's Wrong With This Picture 4:23
9. Stress 4:13
10. Coma 4:14

Album Rating (1-10): 6.0

Members & Other Bands:

• Todd Rundgren - Producer, Song Arrangement, Mixing, Engineer
• Brent Bourgeois - Producer, Key, Vox, String Arrangement (Uncle Rainbow, Convent Choir, Charlie Peacock, Todd Rundgren, Margaret Becker, Robert Palmer, Katey Sagal, Cheri Keaggy, Tony Vincent, Michael W Smith, At the Foot of the Cross, Joanna Carlson, Cindy morgan, Sarah Masen, Chris Rodriguez, Jonathan Rundman, Lisa Bevill )
• Larry Tagg - Producer Bass, Vox (Uncle Rainbow, Todd Rundgren, Eric Tagg, Margaret Becker, Eddie Money, Dirk Hamilton, Chris Rodriguez, Tonio K., Charlie Peacock, 7&7is)
• Lyle Workman - Guitar, String Arrangement (Todd Rundgren, Frank Black, Larry Tagg, Ilse Delange, Infant Sorrow, Sarah McLachlan, Charlie Peacock, Patty Larkin, John Gorka)
• Scott Moon - Keys (Ryo Antony, Internal Affairs, Todd Rundgren, Belle & Leslie)
• Mike Urbano - Drums, Percussion (Cracker, James Williamson & the Pink Hearts, John Hiatt, Look Park, Ryo Antony, Smashmouth, Spent Poets, Third Eye Blind, Torcher, Charlie Peacock, Fool Killers, Margaret Becker, Todd Rundgren, Vector, Brent Bourgeois, David Baerwald, Anton Barbeau, Paul Westerberg, Flax Sifter, Willy DeVille, Hannah Marcus, Chuck Prophet, Sheryl Crow, Black Lab, Buffalo Tom, Zucchero, Sunkist, Two Ball Loo, Poe, Red House Painters, Goapele, Lovemakers, Vonda Shepard,  Camper Van Beethoven, Ligablue)
• Jim Watts Vereecke - Asst. Engineer
• Mingo Lewis - Percussion (Medicine Drum, Santana, The Tong, the Tubes, Inner Circle, Tribe 3, Vortex tribe, Bill Summers, Buddy Miles, Billy Joel, Al Di Meola, Eno/Byrne, XTC, Todd Rundgren)
• John Tenney - Violin (Coast String Quartet, COLLAbSE, Van Morrison, Jesse Colin Young, Patti Labelle, Johnny Van Zant Band, Joe Strummer, Todd Rundgren, Art Pepper, Linda Ronstadt, XTC) 
• Joseph Edelberg - 2nd Violin (Coast String Quartet, Chanticleer Sinfonia, Rick Cerone, Corelli, Linda Rondtadt, Tim Gorman, Santana, Alan Silvestri, Marco Beltrami)
• Rebecca Sebring - Viola (Coast String Quartet, Skywalker Symphony Orch, Billy Burnette, Reg Lindsay, Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt, Danny Elfman, XTC)
• Teresa Adams - Cello (Coast String Quartet, mad River, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Caledonia Soul Orch. Nob Hill String Ensemble, Link Wray, Con Funk Shun, Patti Labelle, Hubert Laws, Herbie Hancock, Art Pepper, XTC, Danny Elfman)
• Bill Graham Mgmt - Direction
• Tony Wright - Cover
• Michael Jang - Photos
• Scott Harrison - Crew
• Bob Lebarre - Crew
• Larry Toomey - Crew

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band. Looks like it will be smooth, overproduced, clinical new wave music, mostly just based on the name and year.

Album Review: This represents the era of new wave when technology was progressing to the point where albums chose this new shimmering one-dimensionally produced sound over real playing. Whether it was just so new and the future of music that it had to be used, or the old everyone else is making this sound- so we should to, or it was a company selling their product to studios like doctors force specific pharmaceutical brand to earn kick-backs. There is a little Oranges and Lemons XTC sound in these songs, but again, that is the sound of the era. Bourgeois became a born-again christian after bouts with drugs and alcohol, and after trying to force the rest of the band to his newfound cause, he broke up the band & left to pursue a christian rock lifestyle. The rest of the band supported Rundgren on his Nearly Human album & tour.

Stand Out Track: Waiting for the Worm to Turn

Links:
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Brent's website
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