The Buggles - Age of Plastic (+3 Bonus Tracks)
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Artist: The BugglesEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
Published: 2004
CD Release Date: 1999-07-19
Music Label: Universal-Island Records
Soundtracks:
- Living in the Plastic Age
- Video Killed the Radio Star
- Kid Dynamo - The Buggles, Downes, G.
- I Love You (Miss Robot)
- Clean, Clean
- Elstree - The Buggles, Downes, G.
- Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade)
- Johnny on the Monorail
- Island
- Technopop
- Johnny on the Monorail
Free Music Notes for Age of Plastic (+3 Bonus Tracks)
Free Music Review: Soundtrack of the times
Hit: 5 Stars
This album was a definitive soundtrack of the times, that being 1980 and thereabouts, a forgotten time period for many. It seemed the world was poised between disco and New Wave, a gap that Blondie so nicely covered with "Heart of Glass." It's all about the synth-pop here. Early 80's sci-fi lyrics, running commentary on media and its place in society, and dark optimism aside, this disc is pop, pure and simple. As an acquaintance at the time put it, "It's music even your mother can enjoy." Uh, yeah...especially I Love You Miss Robot, Elstree, and Astroboy.
Its timeless beauty lies mainly in Trevor Horn's production; anyone owning this album in its heyday knew Horn would go on to huge success, which of course he did.
If you like the songs, you must check out Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club's "English Garden." He co-wrote "Video" and "Clean Clean" and the sound is much more of a rock band--and a young Thomas Dolby plays the keyboards to boot!
Age of Plastic (+3 Bonus Tracks) Poster
Remastered reissue of 1980 new wave classic includes three bonus tracks, 'Island', 'Technopop' & 'Johnny On The Monorail (A Very Different Version)'.Part of the early-1980s great explosion of pop music (witness: Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson) to have any real impact, an accident of fate-titled "Video Killed the Radio Star" inextricably links the Buggles to the rise of MTV. Unfortunate for the band's future, the two best Buggles tracks (the other, "Clean Clean") were cowritten with Bruce Woolley, who simultaneously released them (with less success) with his new band, The Camera Club. The artificial sound of these comparatively primitive keyboards and drum machines, once embraced by nihilist popsters on the edge of punk, has since mutated (Gary Numan, Eno, Woodentops, etc.) into the all-but-voiceless electronic music of the late '90s. Regardless, the Buggles manifested a handful of pop gems in science fiction clothing. And why not? We still read Bradbury and Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. Oddly, what once seemed such smart and jaded music now plays as the voice of joyous optimism. Go figure. --Grant Alden
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