"Top Secret Man" by Plastics was a high point in my young life and re-watching it four decades later is a treat. I'd seen the Plastics warm up for B-52s in Detroit; was awed. The one LP released in the US was sort of de-Japanized; I highly recommend buying the original releases, also available as compilations. Thanks.
The person you see holding up that lovely micro-television (1980's idea of "portable") is Tim Ishimuni, as stated earlier, responsible for hijacking the television station's broadcast from Jerry Todd. Both characters are proof SCTV was/is, and forever shall be God.
Your comment sounds eerily how I would describe the background for this clip...the quirky characters and their actors, the very quirky band, and even that tiny television (I think it's "lovely", too - a marvel of engineering back before paper-thin flatscreens. I wonder what brand it is...). I feel that some of SCTV's bits were terribly overlooked next to the more popular McKenzie Brothers, Edith Prickley, and Sammy Maudlin's crew. (Not that they're not great; it's just that other notable characters and one-off skits get lost among them.) This clip shows a lot of the zeitgeist of the early Eighties, with the avalanche of accessible and portable consumer electronics, the Japanese economy as a real beast before its bubble popped, the slow loosening of the Cold War's grip...and really awesome New Wave music.
I remember buying this vinyl album in a local record shop for 3.00 when i was around 14 or 15...white album cover with the plastics on the cover...Listened to every song on it and loved the sound...so ahead of their time and soooo cool!!!😃
SCTV it was! It was VJ Jerry Todd who show, after making some comments about Japanese technology, was hijacked by his Japanese counterpart. It was one of best SCTV episodes ever!
I was completely enthralled when SCTV presented this video of Plastics. I immediately went out and bought the LP simply titled "Plastics"....I still have it and it still sounds just as new, quirky, and fresh as when I first heard it. This version of the song and the album version of the song are different (album version a little more put together).
I had this song on a mixtape I got from Japan in 1980. I also bought the Plastics LP not long after, but was disappointed that it was not the same version. I subsequently learned that the album I had bought was actually their third, consisting of re-recorded versions of songs from their first two albums.. (I recently had the cover of the first LP, Welcome Plastics, framed.)
Huge onset of my search for great,innovative,and cool sounds...and there were so many...not like the shitty sounds of today with talentless artists that sound like they are wiping their pointless asses.
Saw them on stage at th Rathskeller (sp?) in Boston 1979-80? (Damn my memory!) Warmed up for the B52s w rock lobster wasn’t quite a hit. * about all i remember. - i may be makin this shit up, But i bought their album. On stage, chick was wearin a kimono, playin and xylophone.
Everyone should listen to the band Melon and its album Do you like Japan? The English didn't improve but its a slow and stylish groove. Toshio Nakanishi was the leader of both bands, Plastics and Melon. I met him in a Tokyo club in the 80's, a very nice guy. RIP Toshio.
Their 1987 album Deep Cut is even better-EXCELLENT version of Quiet Village. Also worth listening to are the Pithecan Thropus Erectus album (with Snakeman Show and Nakanishi's exotic music project, Water Melon), and the Deep Cut Remix album
The era of Avant Garde or being on the razors edge will never happen again. I’m so happy I was a teen in the 80’s. New Wave was when art and technology merged. Synths, drum sequencers and video created a genre still mimicked until this day. Regurgitated over and over but will never happen again. Never.
I’ve always believed in a “Japanese Rock Invasion” of the west and all it would take is more Nippon Rock in English. I was a big Plastics fan back in the day. Then Super Egg Machine-now Bo Peep and The Tokyo Pinsalocks. -Check them out. -Japanese Rock ROCKS!
They used words as paint splotches, in a slightly haphazard, quirky way, reminiscent of English translation/phrases on Japanese packaging. Words used for sound, conveying energy.
Seeing this on SCTV in 1982 blew my mind! 👍🏻❤️ When I bought the album, I was disappointed to find that the LP version of this song was different and not as good. The video version is slick and much cooler.
It's on their first album, Welcome Plastics. It's also on the compilation Forever Plastico, which contains their first LP in its entirety, plus about half of the songs from their second album, Origato Plastico. The LP that many of us remember as Plastics was called Welcome Back Plastics in Japan.
Its kind of wild how all these people found this band that way. In the late 90s there was a comedy show called Viva Variety that had musical guests and they had Pizzicato Five on and I became obsessed with them. They just happened to cover a song by The Plastics too.
What I woudn't do for the all-checkered outfit at 2:00! I love the idea of deciding I want to look like walking TV static, and pick it out to wear on occasion.
It's strange, but as a Frenchman I have the impression that this music sounds a lot like "Ça plane pour moi" by Plastic Bertrand released in 1977. 🤔 (Given his artist name, maybe, he would just be the secret member of the Plastics! Haha)
YMO のお金のかかった大型プロジェクト感とは 真逆のどこまでもチープでキッチュ、フットワークの軽い感じが魅力だった。佐久間氏以外は本業があり、音楽はあくまで趣味感が最高にかっこ良かった。
最近プラスチックスにどハマりしてます
今年デビューでもおかしくない、時間軸がおかしく感じるほど古くささがない。
こんなバンドがいたのか！どんだけオシャレよ！
40年前でこのセンス
プラスチックスのチープなサウンドに意味が分からない歌詞が好きでした。
現在ご存命なのはチカさんと立花ハジメさんだけですか…悲しいです😢
しかしもし当時こんなコアなグループが好きだったら絶対に同じ趣味の友達は周りに居ないと思う、、ネットもないしライブ行くしかないみたいな。。
The lyrics may be abstract or messy, but I don't think they're meaningless at all.
"Top Secret Man" by Plastics was a high point in my young life and re-watching it four decades later is a treat. I'd seen the Plastics warm up for B-52s in Detroit; was awed. The one LP released in the US was sort of de-Japanized; I highly recommend buying the original releases, also available as compilations. Thanks.
Now I'm trying to remember if they played The Left Bank in Mt Vernon NY. I think I might have seen them perform someplace.
I saw them warm up for the B-52s in West Hartford Ct Have to say the B52s were blown off the stage that night
I prefer the album version of this song. It's tighter and no less fun.
Got their Welcome Back LP with the 7" flexi disc while I was living in HH. Aaah the memories... 🥹
やはりすごいセンスですよね。中学の頃くらいだと、思いますが、脳裏に焼き付いていましたね
しがない高校1年生ですがプラスチックスにハマってしまいました
プラスチックスは、過去にタイムスリップ出来る最高のバンドです。
Mr. "Great" Video Jerry Todd got shown up by that Japanese guy who showed us how Japanese bands engineer better music on better TVs than Americans.
The person you see holding up that lovely micro-television (1980's idea of "portable") is Tim Ishimuni, as stated earlier, responsible for hijacking the television station's broadcast from Jerry Todd. Both characters are proof SCTV was/is, and forever shall be God.
Your comment sounds eerily how I would describe the background for this clip...the quirky characters and their actors, the very quirky band, and even that tiny television (I think it's "lovely", too - a marvel of engineering back before paper-thin flatscreens. I wonder what brand it is...).
I feel that some of SCTV's bits were terribly overlooked next to the more popular McKenzie Brothers, Edith Prickley, and Sammy Maudlin's crew. (Not that they're not great; it's just that other notable characters and one-off skits get lost among them.)
This clip shows a lot of the zeitgeist of the early Eighties, with the avalanche of accessible and portable consumer electronics, the Japanese economy as a real beast before its bubble popped, the slow loosening of the Cold War's grip...and really awesome New Wave music.
I absolutely remember seeing this on SCTV
Japanese hijackers, like Japanese televisions, were much better than the American versions in the 70s and 80s.
今もこのレコードは実家にあります。私も含め、当時は音楽もファッションもテクノの全盛期でした。
Just another good reason to love New Wave and Punk.
I remember buying this vinyl album in a local record shop for 3.00 when i was around 14 or 15...white album cover with the plastics on the cover...Listened to every song on it and loved the sound...so ahead of their time and soooo cool!!!😃
Fit well with My maximum rock and roll collection.
This song blew me away. I went out and bought the album after seeing this video on SCTV which came on after SNL and it was funnier.
ポップンロール３００%に行きましたチカちゃんキヨシローに続いてシーナさんや誠さんも大きな玉ねぎの下で輝いてたスターが玉ねぎの遥か上空で星になるために天国に向かってるんですね♬天国にも武道館ありますか?
SCTV it was! It was VJ Jerry Todd who show, after making some comments about Japanese technology, was hijacked by his Japanese counterpart. It was one of best SCTV episodes ever!
So good to see that RUclips let this video be unblocked! Awesome! It was impossible to find for like 2 years!
ボーカルのファンでした。ご冥福
よっとぽどピストルズが好きだった事は理解できる
i first caught this video in 1981, been lookong for the name of the group and song ever since! Wow and Thanks!
I was completely enthralled when SCTV presented this video of Plastics. I immediately went out and bought the LP simply titled "Plastics"....I still have it and it still sounds just as new, quirky, and fresh as when I first heard it. This version of the song and the album version of the song are different (album version a little more put together).
phantasm1004 I did the same thing!
I had this song on a mixtape I got from Japan in 1980. I also bought the Plastics LP not long after, but was disappointed that it was not the same version. I subsequently learned that the album I had bought was actually their third, consisting of re-recorded versions of songs from their first two albums.. (I recently had the cover of the first LP, Welcome Plastics, framed.)
Huge onset of my search for great,innovative,and cool sounds...and there were so many...not like the shitty sounds of today with talentless artists that sound like they are wiping their pointless asses.
Same here
Saw them on stage at th Rathskeller (sp?) in Boston
1979-80? (Damn my memory!)
Warmed up for the B52s w rock lobster wasn’t quite a hit.
* about all i remember.
- i may be makin this shit up,
But i bought their album.
On stage, chick was wearin a kimono, playin and xylophone.
I saw a rerun of this episode as a very young kind and instantly decided that i liked the Plastics and the Talking Heads.
I already LOVE it after 15 seconds! 😅😄👍
ARRIGATO! Moshi, moshi from The Netherlands!
２０００年位に見た時は昔の人はダサいと思ったけど２０２４年に見ると一周してハイセンスに戻るな
Everyone should listen to the band Melon and its album Do you like Japan? The English didn't improve but its a slow and stylish groove. Toshio Nakanishi was the leader of both bands, Plastics and Melon. I met him in a Tokyo club in the 80's, a very nice guy. RIP Toshio.
Their 1987 album Deep Cut is even better-EXCELLENT version of Quiet Village. Also worth listening to are the Pithecan Thropus Erectus album (with Snakeman Show and Nakanishi's exotic music project, Water Melon), and the Deep Cut Remix album
@@kevinj.oconner788 I will check that out. Thanks.
チカさんて夏木マリさんのようなカッコよさを感じる。
(凄く個人的な感想で失礼しました)
The era of Avant Garde or being on the razors edge will never happen again. I’m so happy I was a teen in the 80’s. New Wave was when art and technology merged. Synths, drum sequencers and video created a genre still mimicked until this day. Regurgitated over and over but will never happen again. Never.
Fast forward to the last gasps of 2024 and it turns out your g*shdarn right!
Saw The Plastics open for the B52s at the Greek Theatre in the early 80s. Great band.
I saw them open for the B-52s in NYC. Also saw them at Irving Plaza. Fun band!
I’ve always believed in a “Japanese Rock Invasion” of the west and all it would take is more Nippon Rock in English. I was a big Plastics fan back in the day. Then Super Egg Machine-now Bo Peep and The Tokyo Pinsalocks. -Check them out. -Japanese Rock ROCKS!
Was diving through my uncle’s vinyls and found their Welcome Back album…love at first listen
これ、かっこよすぎ！古いのか？新しいのか？36年たった今でも答えが出ません。それほど僕の価値観に影響を与えた楽曲です。
I had this record by The Plastics. I liked how their lyrics were peculiar and didn't rhyme, since English was not their first language.
They used words as paint splotches, in a slightly haphazard, quirky way, reminiscent of English translation/phrases on Japanese packaging. Words used for sound, conveying energy.
Absolutely BRILLIANT
Seeing this on SCTV in 1982 blew my mind! 👍🏻❤️ When I bought the album, I was disappointed to find that the LP version of this song was different and not as good. The video version is slick and much cooler.
It's on their first album, Welcome Plastics. It's also on the compilation Forever Plastico, which contains their first LP in its entirety, plus about half of the songs from their second album, Origato Plastico. The LP that many of us remember as Plastics was called Welcome Back Plastics in Japan.
Its kind of wild how all these people found this band that way. In the late 90s there was a comedy show called Viva Variety that had musical guests and they had Pizzicato Five on and I became obsessed with them. They just happened to cover a song by The Plastics too.
チカさん大好きだったわ
The guitar lead is perfect.
R.I.P. Mr. Sakuma.
YMOより大好きだったプラスティックス！でも当時リアルタイムで見た事はなかった。
ペンギンは素晴らしい。歌詞もそうだど同じアルバム収録のComplexを聴きけば彼らが決して単細胞では無いと解る。軽い様で奥が深い お見事
I recall seeing this in re-run so many times -- NBC had it in for Saturday Night Live one summer ... legendary!
If you’ve ever seen Japanese TV commercials, this video resembles them.
Wow, that bass is tight!
OMG! it was SCTV network 90 that I saw this on!!!-)
今聴いても新鮮っ！
I used to love Plastics and SCTV!
At the beginning of the video Dave Thomas is holding a really small Panasonic TR-1010P TV.
Some great Vwid-ee-O for ya ... jerrry-eeee todd! .. had some talking heads on this episode too
What I woudn't do for the all-checkered outfit at 2:00! I love the idea of deciding I want to look like walking TV static, and pick it out to wear on occasion.
Still my favorite Plastics video.... Plastics forever!!
思い出す。このチカ様に迫られたい君は ×月○日 中○サンプラザに来なはれ！との記事見てコンサートに行った。
B52 's JAPAN BAND!!!
Perfect description!
Classic video and tune!
何このDEVO感
best band ever
サディミカやヒカシューとサイケな感じはこの時代だけだったするな。
Shu M 何言ってるの？馬鹿なの？
ahahah when he is cooking and playing at the same time lol
This is just amazing
It's strange, but as a Frenchman I have the impression that this music sounds a lot like "Ça plane pour moi" by Plastic Bertrand released in 1977. 🤔 (Given his artist name, maybe, he would just be the secret member of the Plastics! Haha)
R.I.P Toshi
Indelible, Mr Nakanishi
やっぱカッケー😁
スゲー懐かしー！この時代、右も左もテクノばっかだったわー！
so 80's New Wave
中西俊夫、R.I.P.
かっこいい
懐かし〜〜(￣∀￣)チカとハジメちゃんカッコ良かったよね〜奥平さんの本読みながら聴くのが好きだったw
イラマゴ
@@中村耕太郎 解って下すって嬉しいですw あの方は音楽より漫画の方が才能ある！と思ってしまいましたがw
@@AEMaeth_izz ビル・ラズウェル・プロデュース、TYOロック、TOYロック、YOTロック、OYTロックというネーミングがいい。
Toshi Nakanishi R.I.P.
Great stuff! Lots of Talking Heads influence.
I believe the Talking Heads played Once in a Lifetime on the same episode
Devo too
More 70s berserk punk energy without the nihilism. It was dance music that avoided the smoothness of disco.
Sctv Jerry Tod introduced The Plastics
It Wasn't Saturday Night Live ,,, It was SCTV
So sorry Sokumura. Classic band.
Pure!
センスやばい
omg so good
GREAT!!!
JERR-EEE Todd. SCTV is like meat and potatoes for me!
too supa cool
RIP SAKUMA
This is fucking awesome!!! :)
これ衝撃だったな、中学生の頃カタカナで歌詞覚えたわ。
ペンギンかわヨ
I like the guitar holders. I don't know why they didn't catch on.
And they’re bouncy too.
toshio nakanishi rip
So now there is a bridge of The Plastics to Polysics to who now in 2020?
R.I.P Tycoon Tosh...
誰か継いでほしい。若い方
It could be better if the quality of the sound were better. It's sound abit too old, but still good
映画「薔薇の葬列」 は名作
ピーター サイコー
es bellísimo
ありがとう
初めはパンクだったんだよね音源はなし
🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗😍😍
最高！
クレイジーな曲だな。佐久間さん死んじゃったから悲しい。
😊😊😊😊😊😊🧡🧡🧡🧡
Cool band. That girl sure is cute.
おしゃれ
洋楽より洋楽してる
rip tosh
Where are they now?