Welcome Plastics
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Released25 January 1980
RecordedSeptember 1979
StudioShalom Under the Church
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| Released | 25 January 1980 | |||
| Recorded | September 1979 | |||
| Studio | Shalom Under the Church | |||
| Genre | New wave, post-punk, synthpop | |||
| Length | 42:22 | |||
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| Label | Victor, Invitation | |||
| Producer | Plastics | |||
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Welcome Plastics is the debut studio album by Japanese rock band Plastics. The album, produced by the band, was released on 25 January 1980 by the Victor Music Industries label Invitation.
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| Source | Rating |
| Fact | favourable[1] |
| Trouser Press | favourable[2] |
Trouser Press called the album "marvelous and well worth finding for fans of extreme kitsch and quirk".[2] In 2007, the album was ranked number 19 in the Japanese edition Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums of All Time".[3]
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Toshio Nakanishi, except where noted; all music is composed by Hajime Tachibana and Toshi, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Top Secret Man" | 2:25 | |
| 2. | "Digital Watch" | Chica Sato (lyrics) | 2:29 |
| 3. | "Copy" | 2:20 | |
| 4. | "I Am Plastic" | 1:55 | |
| 5. | "I Wanna Be Plastic" | Chica (lyrics) | 1:30 |
| 6. | "Can I Help Me?" | 4:10 | |
| 7. | "Too Much Information" | 2:17 | |
| 8. | "Welcome Plastics" | Kazumi Yasui, Tadao Inoue | 2:58 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "I Love You Oh No!" | Chica (lyrics) | 4:16 |
| 2. | "Robot" | 2:54 | |
| 3. | "Delicious" | Chica (lyrics) | 2:48 |
| 4. | "Last Train to Clarksville" | Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart | 3:03 |
| 5. | "Deluxe" | 3:56 | |
| 6. | "Complex" | 5:21 |
Personnel
Plastics
- Toshio Nakanishi – voice, guitar
- Chica Sato – voice, dance
- Hajime Tachibana – guitar
- Masahide Sakuma – synthesizer
- Takemi Shima – rhythm box
Technical
- Plastics – producers
- Toshio Nakanishi – illustration
- Hajime Tachibana – graphic design
- Tohru Kogure – photograph
- Kohzoh Kenmochi – re-mix engineer
- Haruo Okada – recording engineer
- Tatsuo Sano – recording engineer
- We Love Music, P.M.P. – mastering
