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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Remastered reissue of 1980 new wave classic includes three bonus tracks, 'Island', 'Technopop' & 'Johnny On The Monorail (A Very Different Version)'.
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The Age of Plastic
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Age of Plastic (+3 Bonus Tracks)
The Buggles Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000257O9 Release Date: 1999-07-19 |
Tracks:
- The Plastic Age
- Video Killed The Radio Star
- Kid Dynamo
- I Love You (Miss Robot)
- Clean, Clean
- Elstree
- Astroboy (And The Proles On Parade)
- Johnny On The Monorail
- Island
- Technopop
- Johnny On The Monorail
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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 AldenAlbum Description
Remastered reissue of 1980 new wave classic includes three bonus tracks, 'Island', 'Technopop' & 'Johnny On The Monorail (A Very Different Version)'.Album Details
Digitally Remastered Version of the Influential Album that Heralded the Recognition of the Music Video Age. "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the First Clip Played at the Birth of MTV in 1981 and Has Remained It's Defacto Theme Song. The Duo of Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes Created Electronic Music that Flowed Well with the New Wave They were a Part Of. They were Destined for Greater Things Though, as Both Later Joined Yes, Downes Later Joined Asia and Horn Went on to Co-found the Ztt Record Label (Home of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Art of Noise, 808state and Propaganda, Among Others). Also features Three Bonus Tracks: 'island', 'technopop', and 'johnny on the Monorail (A Very Different Version)'.Customer Reviews:
Irresistible!.......2007-05-05
Much has been said about the album's production and I must say that I was impressed. The sound is unbelievably crisp and modern. It is not overproduced but is very shiny (in a good way!).
For Horn's work with this album and his work with the pop group ABC later on, I can truthfully say that he ranks among my favorite producers...up there with Brian Eno, William Orbit, Phil Spector, etc.
This is a great album filled with irresistible synthesizer pop from that era's golden age. As many reviewers have said, this album (made at the very dawn of the 1980s) predicts what would happen to much of the mainstream in music during the 1980s.
Oh, and the cover is way cool.
Soundtrack of the times.......2005-11-13
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!
Holds Up Well -- Much More Than You Think.......2005-09-16
To me, it's a bit like The Cars' Panorama or Todd Rundgren's The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect, both recorded at the same time, in that what is created here is an insular world, a bit cold and distant, providing a glimpse at the future that, to my ears today, ironically sounds quaint, inviting, and comforting. To be honest, as the headlines today blare continuing bad news, I'm going to keep going back to this future as it's often preferable to our present....
the 5 bucks special returns!.......2005-06-25
Trevor Horn's mush-free mixing.......2005-06-20
It's amazing how Trevor Horn creates complex mixes without turning them into mush. Check out the bass guitar in "Video Killed the Radio Star", somehow sounding clean and muscular through the already dense sound. And the chunky, woody arpeggios played by Geoff Downes at the end of "Clean Clean". The power of the three-note riff in "Island". And other aural delights throughout the album too numerous to mention.
To hear what I hear, you have to play the CD through audio equipment that's strong on rythmic drive and is able to grip the lower frequencies. This is not an album for low powered valve amplifiers. But play it through something like Naim amplification, for example, and every time you hear the kick drum at the opening of "Video", you'll find yourself sitting up and paying attention.
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The Age of Plastic
The Buggles Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001FVL Release Date: 1990-06-15 |
Tracks:
- Living In The Plastic Age
- Video Killed The Radio Star
- Kid Dynamo
- I Love You (Miss Robot)
- Clean, Clean
- Elstree
- Astroboy (And The Proles On Parade)
- Johnny On The Monorail
Amazon.com
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 AldenAlbum Description
Remastered reissue of 1980 new wave classic includes three bonus tracks, 'Island', 'Technopop' & 'Johnny On The Monorail (A Very Different Version)'.Album Details
Digitally Remastered Version of the Influential Album that Heralded the Recognition of the Music Video Age. "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the First Clip Played at the Birth of MTV in 1981 and Has Remained It's Defacto Theme Song. The Duo of Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes Created Electronic Music that Flowed Well with the New Wave They were a Part Of. They were Destined for Greater Things Though, as Both Later Joined Yes, Downes Later Joined Asia and Horn Went on to Co-found the Ztt Record Label (Home of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Art of Noise, 808state and Propaganda, Among Others). Also features Three Bonus Tracks: 'island', 'technopop', and 'johnny on the Monorail (A Very Different Version)'.Customer Reviews:
Irresistible!.......2007-05-05
Much has been said about the album's production and I must say that I was impressed. The sound is unbelievably crisp and modern. It is not overproduced but is very shiny (in a good way!).
For Horn's work with this album and his work with the pop group ABC later on, I can truthfully say that he ranks among my favorite producers...up there with Brian Eno, William Orbit, Phil Spector, etc.
This is a great album filled with irresistible synthesizer pop from that era's golden age. As many reviewers have said, this album (made at the very dawn of the 1980s) predicts what would happen to much of the mainstream in music during the 1980s.
Oh, and the cover is way cool.
Soundtrack of the times.......2005-11-13
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!
Holds Up Well -- Much More Than You Think.......2005-09-16
To me, it's a bit like The Cars' Panorama or Todd Rundgren's The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect, both recorded at the same time, in that what is created here is an insular world, a bit cold and distant, providing a glimpse at the future that, to my ears today, ironically sounds quaint, inviting, and comforting. To be honest, as the headlines today blare continuing bad news, I'm going to keep going back to this future as it's often preferable to our present....
the 5 bucks special returns!.......2005-06-25
Trevor Horn's mush-free mixing.......2005-06-20
It's amazing how Trevor Horn creates complex mixes without turning them into mush. Check out the bass guitar in "Video Killed the Radio Star", somehow sounding clean and muscular through the already dense sound. And the chunky, woody arpeggios played by Geoff Downes at the end of "Clean Clean". The power of the three-note riff in "Island". And other aural delights throughout the album too numerous to mention.
To hear what I hear, you have to play the CD through audio equipment that's strong on rythmic drive and is able to grip the lower frequencies. This is not an album for low powered valve amplifiers. But play it through something like Naim amplification, for example, and every time you hear the kick drum at the opening of "Video", you'll find yourself sitting up and paying attention.
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Age of Plastic
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000AA7BP2 Release Date: 2007-09-11 |
Album Description
Limited edition Japanese pressing of the 1980 album. The fun, quirky single 'Video Killed the Radio Star' garnered The Buggles international attention in 1980, but it was just one of The Age of Plastic's fascinating, futuristic visions. From the title track's opening strains, Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes transform your living room into a world of Jetson-like proportions. It's a world, though, where technology is seen for what it is full of both promise and frightening implications. On 'I Love You Miss Robot', a metaphorical love affair with a robot explores modern man's relationship to, and dependence on, technology. 'Kid Dynamo's' spirited tempo, biting lyrics, and menacing vocal track questions the loss of imagination plaguing the mass media age. For the most part, The Age of Plastic is a fun record that doesn't need to be taken too seriously, though a subtle sense of loss is woven throughout. 8 total tracks. Island. 2005.Customer Reviews:
The Buggles's critique of much more than video and radio.......2005-12-04
Pay attention to the lyrics on this album. "Kid Dynamo" is about the death of imagination in the age of mass media, a proposition that is clearly becoming more and more obvious with each year. "I Love You Miss Robot" is not kinky, despite its title, and is about the pitfalls of human dependence on technology. As for the music, it is pretty diverse. ""Video Killed the Radio Star" is upbeat and peppy while "Johnny on the Monorail" is the exact opposite, dark and brooding. Of course, at the time the use of electronic devices was considered cutting edge and the novelty of it all distracted from the potency of the lyrics. The Alan Parsons Project tried to do something along these lines with with 1977's "I Robot," but that effort seems ponderous and pretentious when compared to "Age of Plastic." I think I could make a compelling argument that this is one of the top ten, or at least top two dozen albums, from the decade (and you can go either way on that as the end of the 1970s or the start of the 1980s).
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Maschinenmusik
Plastic Noise Experience Manufacturer: Metropolis Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002VEPKI Release Date: 2004-09-28 |
Tracks:
- Plastik Fantastik
- Prestigeobjekt
- Monoton Synchron
- Maschinen (v2.0)
- Maschinemusik
- Koma (v1.2)
- Vad
- Heimcomputer
- Neue Welt
- Maschine Brennt
- Maschinen Prototype Mix
- Vad Remix
- Plastik Fantastik Remix
- Monoton Synchron Remix
- Schlafmodus 1
- Schlafmodus 2
Album Description
In the early 90s, PNE were one of the main forces in German dark-electro. "Maschinenmusik" marks their return with uncompromising old-school EBM, harsh powerful vocals, kicking distorted beats, and virulent Kraftwerk-like melodies. PNE overpowers you with an engulfing and explosive sonic experience, building the bridge between the original "electro roots" and the 21st century "less is more" electronic movement. Includes remixes by Wumpscut, Suicide Commando, Armageddon Dildos, and Solitary Experiments.Customer Reviews:
Kraftwerk gone industrial.......2005-05-09
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The Age of Plastic
The Buggles Manufacturer: Japanese Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005R0VU Release Date: 2002-03-26 |
Tracks:
- Living in the Plastic Age
- Video Killed the Radio Star
- Kid Dynamo
- I Love You (Miss Robot)
- Clean, Clean
- Elstree
- Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade)
- Johnny on the Monorail
- Island [*]
- Technopop [*]
- Johnny on the Monorail [A Very Different Version][*]
Album Description
Japanese reissue of 1980 album, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Includes the bonus tracks 'Island', 'Technopop' & 'Johnny On The Monorail (A Very Different Version)'.Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase. Also features Three Bonus Tracks: 'island', 'technopop', and 'johnny on the Monorail (A Very Different Version)'Customer Reviews:
Plasticated and oddly undated.......2004-11-29
There was a fair amount of imagination involved with the making of this album. Horn and Downes obviously, in retrospect, had a lot more ambitions than making cotton candy new wave. If you listen to the lyrics, you'll find fear of the Reagen/Thatcher power mongering of the time ("Clean Clean"), wariness of technology isolating people from humanity ("I Love You Miss Robot"), and the title track's cynical look into a future of replaceable parts and governmental control.
Unfortunately, the album did suffer from the fact that neither Horn nor Downes was much of a singer. While that lends a certain charm to a song like "Elstree," it does suck the power out of "Kid Dynamo," which really would have been more convincing if the vocal had more muscle. (In fact, I remember the shock of many of my friends when it was announced that Horn and Downes had been recruited for Yes...how the heck could the singer on this record possibly stand in Jon Anderson's space?) Regardless of the performance weaknesses, "Living In The Plastic Age" sounds better after the 20 plus years since its release than, say, A Flock Of Seagulls, and, as a document of Men Vs Technology, still stands strong.
PS: I also recommend Bruce Wooley and The Camera Club's "English Garden" CD in addition to "Living in The Plastic Age." He was a founding member of the Buggles and cowrote some of their best songs, but broke off before they hit. His versions of "Video Killed the Radio Star" and "Clean Clean" are played as straight ahead power pop and can be found on his album.
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The Age of Plastic
Buggles Manufacturer: Island ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000N7859I |
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Spiritual Kung-Fu
Plastic Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004T6ZO Release Date: 2000-12-05 |
Tracks:
- Kids
- Shine
- All That You Have
- Tonowrow
- Waves
- Neon Dreams
- Open It Up
- Be (Somebody Else)
- A Ioi A Delay A Space Echo
- Moving In Stereo
- Shine (Radio Edit)
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Age of Plastic
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000J2358S Release Date: 2006-12-26 |
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Mass Amount of Love
Doug Shepherd Manufacturer: Champion Of The New Plastic Age ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005YHNV Release Date: 2000-06-20 |
Tracks:
- Postcard from Everett Ruess
- Tightrope Walks
- Nothing Ever Really Changes
- Panic Attacks
- Anorexic Complex (Sasha's Theme)
- Majesty and Bloat
- Ballad of Dora Maar
- Whistles Blow
- Lay Quiet Awhile
- Falling Star
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The Age of Plastic
Buggles ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000056271 |
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