New Race

An interesting one-time-only band, New Race was proof that good music can occur when "teachers" and "students" get together. In this instance, the "teachers" were ex-Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton and ex-MC5 drummer Dennis Thompson, who joined forces with "students" Deniz Tek, Rob Younger, and Warwick Gilbert, the latter three members of the seminal Australian punk band Radio Birdman. Tek was a Michigan native who'd emigrated to Australia in the early '70s, bringing his love of high-energy Detroit proto-punk with him. After Birdman's demise, he contacted Asheton and Thompson to come to Australia and form this ad-hoc touring outfit. New Race toured Australia once in 1981, playing mostly small halls and releasing one legit live LP and a few lo-fi bootlegs. While the resulting record, The First and the Last, benefits from a significant amount of in-studio sweetening (backing vocals are added, guitar solos overdubbed), it's still an exciting, guitar-fueled rave-up. Fans of the early-'70s Motor City sound or early Aussie punk wouldn't want to be without it.

~ John Dougan, All Music Guide

The First and the Last (1981)

1. Crying Sun
2. Haunted Road
3. Gotta Keep Moving
4. Breaks My Heart
5. Sad TV
6. Loose
7. November 22, 1963
8. Love Kills
9. Alone in the Endzone
10. Looking at You
11. Columbia

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The First to Pay (1989)

1. Smith and Wesson Blues
2. Haunted Road
3. Living World
4. Loose
5. TV Eye
6. Love Kills
7. November 22, 1963
8. 455 SD
9. Alone in the Endzone
10. Looking at You
11. New Race
12. Columbia

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The Second Wave (1990)

1. Burn My Eye
2. Alone in the Endzone
3. Man With the Golden Helmet
4. Breaks My Heart
5. Gotta Keep Movin'
6. Crying Sun
7. Sad TV
8. Loose
9. TV Eye

10. New Race

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