Plastic People

Plastic People Artist: Birth Control
Label: Repertoire
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4009910494424
ASIN: B00005J7GM


Release Date: 2001-04-26

Plastic People


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Tracks:

  1. Plastic People
  2. Tiny Flashlights
  3. My Mind
  4. Rockin' Rollin' Roller
  5. Trial Trip
  6. This Song Is Just for You

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Album Description

Repertoire reissue of the German prog act's 1975 album that is unavailable domestically. 6 tracks including 'Plastic People' & 'Trial Trip'. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Their first progressive album.......2006-05-16

Birth Control had already released a bunch of albums since the start of the '70s and had been frequently compared with Deep Purple. It's probably the reason why the band is often not the most respected in the prog and Krautrock communities. Birth Control certainly doesn't bear much resemblance to groups like Can, Amon Duul II, Ash Ra Tempel, the Ohr-era Tangerine Dream, pre-Autobahn Kraftwerk, Neu, Faust, etc., that's why they aren't too respected with Krautrock fans, and maybe come across as too much as conventional hard rock for prog fans.

This out of the way: 1975's Plastic People is the very first Birth Control album I have ever heard, and I have yet to dig in to their catalog to get a stronger opinion of these guys. This was their final album for CBS, and they changed musical directions to full-on prog rock. Prog rock fans who might have been unkind to Birth Control would be happy with Plastic People. The hard rock influences have been toned down considerably turning to a style of prog rock that brings to mind ELP, Genesis, Grobschnitt, Gentle Giant, etc. In fact the opening cut, the title track, will bring to mind Grobschnitt, with similar sounding vocals, the big difference, is the band lacks the Teutonic humor that was the trademark of Grobschnitt. Zeus B. Held is responsible for keyboard duties here, with the Hammond organ, electric piano, Moog, clavinet, and even some Mellotron. "Tiny Flashlight" is another fantastic piece, and this is on of the pieces where Zeus B. Held whips out the Mellotron (he also uses it on "Trial Trip", but this album isn't plastered with the instrument). The music features all the complexities that would keep all the die-in-the-wool progheads happy. This piece suddenly ends with the band going tango, and also some nice jazzy sax to go with it at the end. "My Mind" starts off almost medieval, with some nice use of cello (one of the cellists here was Jochen von Grumbkow, of Hoederlin, and also appeared on Tangerine Dream's Zeit). "Rockin' Rollin' Roller" is the one cut the band looks to their hard rock past. "This Song is Just For You" features some Chicago or Blood, Sweat & Tears-like horns, but with progressive arrangements, but also some soul influences that might scare off some prog fans, but works surprisingly well.

If you liked the earlier Birth Control like Operation or Hoodoo Man, Plastic People would come as a shock, but for progheads, this is the album to start with.

3 out of 5 stars Typical 70's prog from Germany:3stars,1/2 is righter.......2003-03-20

Actually the right rate should be 3 star and 1/2, cause the second side of the album (almost the whole),is in the vein of classic hard rock, which is not very original (even though it is in the vein of their debut album, which was not progressive and quite Deep Purple-like). The present issue is indeed characterized by a complex sound, expecially the keyboards by Zeus B. Held, a competent keyboardplayer and a good composer as well ... the sound reminds me of such german space rock;instead the guitar sound trademark is that one you find at the end of "Trial trip": in particular such sensible final guitar excursion, which is a Bruno Frenzel trademark!!

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