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Pseudo Echo

August 13th, 2010 by aussieboy63

I am going back to the eighties now to do a feature on a New Wave/Rock Aussie band called Pseudo Echo, a band that at their peak was second only to the great INXS.

Pseudo Echo was a Melbourne band formed in 1982 with Brian Canham, Pierre Gigliotti, Anthony Argiro and Tony Lugton, but over the years they had a number of line-up changes with only Canham and Gigliotti remaining through the times. They swept to notice on the back of their first hit “Listening” which gave us all an insight into the type of music that Canham produced. Those early songs were great to dance to and very slick in their production.

The album Autumnal Park was their first and perhaps their best, producing hits such as “Stranger in Me”, “Dancing Till Midnight”, and “A Beat for You” as well as “Listening.” With their unique sound and gorgeous looks and trendy hair do’s the band swept all before it with this album and looked to be the next big thing in Australian music.

In the time between Autumnal Park and their second album Love an Adventure, the band underwent some turbulent times and the only Canham and Gigliotti remained. Love an Adventure was released in 1986 and the big hits off that were “Don’t Go” and “Love an Adventure,” both typically dance tunes in the Pseudo Echo style. In 1987 they re-released the album but included their remake of the Lipps, Inc. song “Funkytown.” “Funkytown” brought the group their biggest international success, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and it also spent seven weeks on top of the Australian charts.

Their third album was released in 1990 and called Race, but was very much a different sound from the previous albums. It had a far harder rock edge to it and was not popular with the fans and the band disbanded at the end of the year. Of the songs in the album I liked “Over Tomorrow” and “Fooled Again” the best. They had moved away from that formula that dragged all of us Aussies through the eighties dancing away.

They have reformed and now perform around Australia, but I still remember them in their great days.

Listening

http://youtu.be/uuw52Chv2fw

Don’t Go

http://youtu.be/Ixv1YilD6vI

A Beat For You

http://youtu.be/2HfGu2dUX-0

Living In A Dream

http://youtu.be/F0KGF8lg6Dc

Love an Adventure

http://youtu.be/Lu3U6SoY0iE

Funky Town