Old Enough to Forget

Pseudo Echo has everything that was awesome about '80s synth music. These guys were right in the same wheelhouse as Ultravox, Simple Minds, or OMD, or ABC (sort of) - well, a lot of bands, even Depeche Mode but not really, more like Psychedelic Furs. I find it strange that when the big dump of acts from Australia that overwhelmed the airwaves here by bands like Icehouse and The Church happened, Pseudo Echo wasn't in that mix. They were really good. Sure, one could argue they were a little derivative. I'd argue that when hair metal was a thing, that was the height of derivative rock - and I loved an awful lot of it. Apparently their version of "Funkytown" was big in Canada, but I don't remember it - at all. At the time I didn't realize the original album was released in Australia in 1985 with a different track order. By the time this was released here in 1987, it suffered the same fate as Angel City's Face to Face -  it was a cobbled-together effort to...