Drastic Plastic

by Be-Bop Deluxe

Type: Album
Released: February 1978
Label: Harvest
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 42:13
Community rating: 3.63/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Simon Fox, noises, John Leckie, Bill Nelson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The final studio album by the ambitious British group sees frontman Bill Nelson sharply abandoning traditional guitar-hero histrionics in favor of synthesized, heavily textured new wave. The futuristic, icy production completely redefined their sound just months before their permanent disbandment.

Genres

Descriptors: guitars, virtuosic, synthesizers, melodic, progressive

Tracklist

Credits

Be-Bop Deluxe - primary artist
Charles Tumahai - bass [fender telecaster], harmony vocals, noises [swimming pool bubbles]
Simon Fox - drums, loops [drum tape loop], loops [drum tape loop], tom tom [tom-toms], snare [military snare drum], drums [sonor drum kit], percussion [tuned wine bottles, pots & pans], whistling, noises [blisters]
Geoff Halpin - lettering
Andy Clark - synthesizer [mini-moog], synthesizer [poly-moog], grand piano, piano [acoustic], piano [acoustic], electric piano [fender rhodes], synthesizer [bass moog]
Haydn Bendall - tape op [tape machines operator]
Jan Nelson - whistling
Paul Bailey - whistling
Be Bop Deluxe - Primary Artist
Bill Nelson - Guitar Synthesizer [Synthesizer Guitar], Noises [White Noise], Electronics [Oscillations], Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Tambourine, Cowbell, Mandolin, Drums, Bells [Sonor Kit], Cabasa, Whistle [Train], Effects [Gun Shots], Whistling, Percussion, Acoustic Guitar [Ovation 6 string], Acoustic Guitar [Ovation 12-string], Noises [Vacuum Cleaner], Acoustic Guitar [12-string], Cymbal [Finger Cymbals], Acoustic Guitar [Ovation], Marimba