Race (album)

Race
Studio album by
Pseudo Echo
Released1988
RecordedMetropolis Studios, Melbourne
GenreHard Rock
Length40:30
LabelEMI Australia
RCA (US)
ProducerBrian Canham, Julian Mendelsohn
Pseudo Echo chronology
Long Plays 83–87
(1987) 		Race
(1988) 		Best Adventures
(1995)
Singles from Race
  1. "Take On the World"
    Released: October 1987
  2. "Fooled Again"
    Released: November 1988
  3. "Over Tomorrow"
    Released: February 1989
  4. "Eye of the Storm"
    Released: July 1989[1]
Alternative cover
International version

Race is the third studio album released by Australian new wave band Pseudo Echo. It was released via EMI Australia in 1988 and RCA Records internationally in 1989. Race resulted in a musical change for the group as it mirrored the music landscape at the time; dominated by big hair, big guitars and rock. While the album no doubt alienated the majority of the band's fan base, it equally attracted a new breed of rock loving fans.[2]

The album included their track "Take On the World", which won at 1987 World Popular Song Festival (a.k.a. Yamaha Music Festival) in Japan.[3]

Three singles were released from the album. The first, "Fooled Again" (which had "Take On the World" as a B-side), peaked at No. 32 in Australia in late 1988.[4]

  1. ^ "Part of Pseudo Echo's ARIA chart history, received from ARIA in 2022 page page 2". ARIA. Retrieved 3 December 2023 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  2. ^ "Pseudo Echo - Race (1988)". rockonvinyl.com.au. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  3. ^ "18th World Popular Song Festival World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo '87". www.yamaha-mf.or.jp. 2 December 2014.
  4. ^ "PSEUDO ECHO - FOOLED AGAIN (SONG)". australian-charts.com. 2 December 2014.