Plastics
Being in the avant-garde of onchi-ness, short-lived new wave unit the Plastics have appeared here before. But the arrival on YouTube of new footage from an unidentified Japanese TV show in the early ’80s is reason enough to resurrect them.
Minimalist diatribe Copy is scathingly subversive and brilliantly bitter: everything Japanese ‘pops’ are not supposed to be. And here is perhaps the single finest example of frontman Toshi Nakanishi’s reductive assimilation of every perplexed outsider in rock & roll from Buddy Holly to David Byrne.
Ask yourself: is your life is so richly complete that you can’t spare the two minutes and 30 seconds it takes to watch this piece of pop glory? If you do click play, beware: due to the infectious nature of great pop and the tendency of perfect numbers to duplicate all by themselves, 2:30 can swiftly become 5:00, 10:00 and even 20:00…
June 8, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Note: I have struggled for about half an hour but can’t fathom out the technical problem which is preventing this video from playing in WordPress. It plays fine on YouTube itself. Try pasting the YouTube URL into a new window or go to Youtube itself and search for Plastics + Copy #1.
June 8, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Looks like embedding has been disabled on that video. Here’s the link, I think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxZjOLlPr7A
Awesome stuff!
June 9, 2008 at 12:48 am
Also: Yay, new entries.
June 24, 2008 at 5:13 am
Thanks for this !
“Robot” is my favorite plastics track:
June 26, 2008 at 2:28 am
That video reminds me of the B-52’s Rock Lobster video. I like it, it’s got an odd catch to it, much like the B-52s lol.
April 25, 2009 at 9:50 am
Shite stuff!