Space Race (album)

Space Race is the second studio album by New Zealand New Wave music group Mi-Sex, released in May 1980.The album peaked at number one on the New Zealand albums chart and was certified platinum.^[2]

Space Race
Studio album by Mi-Sex
Released	May 1980
Studio	Studios 301, Music Farms Studios, Sydney
Genre	New wave
Length	37:23
Label	CBS
Producer	Peter Dawkins
Mi-Sex chronology
Graffiti Crimes (1979) Space Race (1980) Shanghaied! (1981)
Singles from Space Race
"People" Released: March 1980 "Space Race" Released: June 1980 "It Only Hurts When I'm Laughing" Released: August 1980

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

The record label launched a promotional campaign with the slogan 'Are you a clone? . . . No, I'm in the Space Race'. Little rubber alien mannequins as featured on the front cover popped up all over the place."^[3] Ed Nimmervoll of Howlspace website felt that the album was "talking about overpopulation, environmental issues, genetic engineering and other issues of great importance for the future."^[4]

Track listing

Vinyl/cassette (237442)
Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Space Race"	Kevin Stanton, Murray Burns	3:44
2.	"Pages and Matches"	Stanton, Burns	2:30
3.	"Living in September"	Stanton	2:41
4.	"I Don't Know"	Stanton, Burns	2:27
5.	"Slippin' Out"	Stanton, Gilpin	3:08
6.	"It Only Hurts When I'm Laughing"	Stanton, Burns, Steve Gilpin	4:18

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"People"	Stanton, Burns, Gilpin	3:49
2.	"Good Guys Always Win (Satire)"	Stanton, Burns	3:17
3.	"Ghosts"	Stanton, Burns	3:42
4.	"Burning Up"	Stanton, Burns, Gilpin, Richard Hodgkinson	3:35
5.	"Ice Cold Dead"	Stanton, Burns	4:16

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Australian Kent Music Report[5]	5
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[6]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
New Zealand [7]	9

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[8]	Platinum	50,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.