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Bourgeois Tagg - Bourgeois Tagg

I heard "Mutual Surrender (What a Wonderful World)" on the radio - once. It was a nifty track that appealed to me enough to look for the album. I bought the CD and the other song I liked that made it onto a few mixes was "Dying to be Free" an oddly haunting track that really appealed to me. A year later the band was seemingly everywhere with their infectious "I Don't Mind at All" a song barely three minutes long that sounded like nothing else the band had recorded. To many it was the biggest bait and switch since Coke had tried to re-brand back in 1985. Okay maybe not that big, but I had a friend who bought the album thinking he was getting the new Beatles and declared it was a huge steamy pile of poop, aside from one great song. I don't have Yoyo on vinyl (I have it on CD), but I did recently find a sealed copy of their debut, and I know I already have it on CD and I'm not supposed to be doubling up, but come on, a sealed copy? It was cheap to...