Welcome Plastics

Welcome Plastics is the debut studio album by Japanese rock band Plastics. The album, produced by the band, was released on 25 January 1980 by the Victor Music Industries label Invitation.

Reception

Trouser Press called the album "marvelous and well worth finding for fans of extreme kitsch and quirk". In 2007, the album was ranked number 19 in the Japanese edition Rolling Stone<nowiki>'</nowiki>s list of "The 100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums of All Time".

Track listing

Personnel

Plastics

• Toshio Nakanishi – voice, guitar
• Chica Sato – voice, dance
• Hajime Tachibana – guitar
• Masahide Sakuma – synthesizer
• Takemi Shima – rhythm box

Technical

• Plastics – producers
• Toshio Nakanishi – illustration
• Hajime Tachibana – graphic design
• Tohru Kogure – photograph
• Kohzoh Kenmochi – re-mix engineer
• Haruo Okada – recording engineer
• Tatsuo Sano – recording engineer
• We Love Music, P.M.P. – mastering

Release history

• The entire album is included on the Forever Plastico compilation album.
• "Copy", "Robot", "Delicious", "Digital Watch", "Complex", "Last Train to Clarksville", "Can I Help Me?", "I Love You Oh No!" and "Welcome Plastics" are included on the Origato 25 compilation album.
• "Top Secret Man", "Copy" and "Delicious" are included (as part of music videos) on the Deluxe Edition 2016 reissue of Origato Plastico.

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