Songoftheday 10/15/15 - It's important to me that I don't see you laughing at me, but I'm smart enough to know that I have to let you go...

"I Don't Mind At All" - Bourgeois Tagg
from the album Yoyo (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #38 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 2

Today's Song of the Day comes from the alternative pop/rock band Bourgeois Tagg, named from the two guys who put them together, Brent Bourgeois and Larry Tagg. Forming the group in the mid-80s, they released their self-titled debut album in 1984, and had a minor pop hit with "Mutual Surrender (What A Wonderful World)". Three years later, the Tagg put out their follow-up, Yoyo, which was a treasure of indie-pop in its infancy. The highlight of the record was the ballad "I Don't Mind At All". With Brent singing over a sparse backdrop with no bass and just acoustic guitars, strings, and a low drum with the tight harmonic background vocals, the single became their break out success and an entry on many a mixtape of mine that year. The grace of a breakup told in such quiet way drove house the veil covering the despair...

"I Don't Mind At All" became Bourgeois Tagg's sole pop hit, reaching the top-40 in December of 1987. It was a much bigger hit on both the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") chart, reaching #5, and the Mainstream Rock list, peaking at #8. After failing to replicate the success, the group disbanded by the end of the decade. Brent would go on to have another top-40 pop hit of his own in 1990 with "Dare To Fall In Love". He now writes and produces Contemporary Christian pop music, even having a stint as a record executive in the late 90s. Drummer Mike Urbano joined bro-rock hitmakers Smash Mouth in 2000. Meanwhile, Tagg has become a high school English teacher.

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...and here's the band appearing on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson...

Up tomorrow:a trio of club girls slows the pace for the equinox.