Best Adventures [Import]

Pseudo Echo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 20, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Emd Int'l
• ASIN: B000007WGF
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,568 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Listening

2. Fast Cars

3. A Beat for You

4. Destination Unknown

5. Dancing Until Midnight

6. Don't Go

7. Lonely Without You

8. Love an Adventure

9. Living in a Dream

10. Try

11. Funky Town [Dance Mix]

12. Fooled Again

13. Take on the World

14. Over Tomorrow

Editorial Reviews

DATE OF RELEASE: MAY, 9 2000 ALBUM: EMI

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Compilation, December 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Adventures (Audio CD)

This band had always impressed me with their catchy and melodic synth pop. Though it seems they didn't take themselves too seriously (in some of their video clips, check Funkytown), good for artists to have a sense of humour.

Many songs on this compilation are from the 1985 album Love an adventure, my favourites would include Don't Go, Listening, A beat for you.(I also liked I will be you, which is not on this compilation). Over tomorrow is a nice song from Race which is included as the last track.

This is a good compilation with a wide variety of songs spanning the bands career, which has recently re-activated after a decade away with Teleporter,a 2 disc set.

For those of you who haven't heard Race from 1988, it's definitely a keeper, its probably hard to get, but if you can, its worth it. If I lost my copy I'd want to get a new one. This is when the band made a stylistic change from synth pop to guitar. Hard rock ruled the airwaves in the mid-late 80s, with bands like Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Whitesnake. It seems like Pseudo Echo wanted to just pick up the guitar and Rock. A few tracks from Race are included on this compilation.

The first 4 tracks of Race are great. `Fooled Again, Over tomorrow, Caught and Imagination'. `Over tomorrow'(included here) reminds me of Van Halen's `Dreams', but has its own legs as a song. `Caught' has this gorgeous keyboard melody with some meaty guitar hooks and great drums fills, however its left off this compilation. Isn't that always the case with compilations, they don't include every song you like. Some people don't like the hard rock style, but hey in the mid-late eighties, thats what was hot.

Try and find 1985s Love an adventure also,if you are a synth pop fan of the era, its 80s but had that crispness and spark to it. However this compilation is a good intro/taster to Pseudo Echo.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A superb collection!, August 1, 2007

By 

Leo "truth2dare" (Taipei, Taiwan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Adventures (Audio CD)

A great collection by a great (underrated) band... from their earlier synth-pop songs to their later more rock-oriented sound, there's not one bad song on here. Will probably be most remembered for their big international hit 'Funky Town', but this collection proves there was so much more to them! If you like pop/rock, you'll enjoy this!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Synth pop must, March 1, 1999

By 

Wil Foster (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Adventures (Audio CD)

This cd is a true ride through synth pop love land,Pseudo echo were ahead of their time with Pure synth pop anthems void of any cheese ( well untill funky town) The first half of this cd is brillant. The last half could have been left off, no need to bring those out of the closet