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Sunday, December 7, 2025

Spoozys -- Plastic Planet

 

I noticed that I hadn't enriched the Spoozys file since I posted their 2003 "So Human" onto KKP. Too bad since the song is pretty catchy. Must rectify.


Well, I found this earlier single by guitarist and songwriter Jun Matsue(松江潤)and company titled "Plastic Planet" from June 1999 which may have been the band's debut outing. Lots of anarchic raucousness to be enjoyed here and for music lovers of a certain generation, and that includes me, this brand of bloopy synths and slightly growly surf guitars had me thinking the New Wave band Plastics and the other techno rock outfit POLYSICS. The verses even reminded me a bit of "Nice Age" by Yellow Magic Orchestra. The single also got onto Spoozys' debut album "Astro 99" which was released later in October that year.

2 comments:

  1. I didn't know you written a post about Spoozys already so I thought this was the first time. I guess I either did not check the blog that day or maybe I had to discovered this blog at that time. Not really sure, but whatever! I am happy that the Spoozys have gotten two mentions on this blog of yours!

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    1. I gather that this had been before you started regularly commenting. But yeah, give Spoozys a try.

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