Welcome to Sunday February 24th! It's another seasonably cold day here in Toronto but it's also sunny out there as well. I hope that all of you are enjoying your weekends wherever you are.
I haven't done a Plastics song in quite a while so I wanted to see if there were some songs by the Japanese New Wave band that I had yet to unearth. Well, I did discover this one which was their 4th and final single, "Peace" which was released in 1980. Not so much of a technopop song but it is definitely in the jangly New Wave realm. It was written by vocalist Toshio Nakanishi（中西俊夫）and composed by guitarist Hajime Tachibana（立花ハジメ）.
Nakanishi's lyrics are written underneath the video at YouTube and they seem to involve the life in New York City...if seen through some rather odd rose-coloured glasses. As the title indicates though, the Plastics' experience must have been pretty serene. "Peace" was included in the band's 2nd album "Origato Plastico" from September 1980. A slightly longer version than the one used in the music video above was also on their follow-up album in March 1981, "Welcome Back Plastics".
The Plastics 'Peace' sounds very much like some of the music that came out of the UK in the late 70's early 80's.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be surprised. I think some of the more avant-garde Japanese groups liked to emulate the New Romantic and New Wave stuff that was coming out at the time.
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