Fantastic Plastic (album)

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Fantastic Plastic
The Flamin' Groovies
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A Bucket of Brains
(1995) 		Fantastic Plastic
(2017)

Fantastic Plastic is the ninth studio album by

Chris Wilson and bassist George Alexander, who recorded three albums together before splitting up in 1981.[2]

Background

For 2013, the Hoodoo Gurus, with whom the Flamin' Groovies had played in Australia, put together an invitational named Dig It Up to play at four cities in Australia and invited Jordan to participate.[3] Jordan then invited Alexander and Wilson, who both agreed to the limited tour, and the band added drummer Victor Penalosa.[1] After the Australian dates, the band chose to stay together and eventually recorded a single ("Crazy Macy") to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Groovies in 1968, which was released on vinyl in 2016.[1] This album followed the next year.

In addition to the members of the Groovies, co-producer/engineer

Fabulous Thunderbirds also perform on the album.[4] The NRBQ song "I Want You Bad", one of the Groovies' two non-originals on the album, was previously covered by the group's 1970s producer Dave Edmunds
.

Jordan painted the album cover as an homage to

MAD Magazine artist Jack Davis; it draws from Davis' cover for the 1959 Hans Conried/Alice Pearce novelty album Monster Rally.[2] Also, the album and CD label pays homage to the Laurie Records labels of the 1960s.[2] The cover also shows images of the Flamin' Groovies previous albums on Sire Records: three studio albums recorded by this incarnation of the band (Shake Some Action, Flamin' Groovies Now, and Jumpin' in the Night), along with the group's greatest hits album focused on that period (Groovies' Greatest Grooves).[4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by

Chris Wilson except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."What the Hell's Goin' On" 4:45
2."End of the World" 3:54
3."Don't Talk to Strangers"Ron Elliott, Bob Durand3:04
4."Let Me Rock" 3:55
5."She Loves Me" 2:35
6."I Want You Bad"Terry Adams, Phil Crandon2:55
7."Crazy Macy" 3:01
8."Lonely Hearts" 2:59
9."Just Like a Hurricane" 2:57
10."Fallen Star" 3:10
11."I'd Rather Spend My Time with You" 2:23
12."Cryin' Shame" 4:02

Personnel

  • Cyril Jordan, Chris Wilson - guitar, vocals
  • George Alexander, Cyril Jordan, Steve Gomes, Alec Palao - bass guitar
  • Victor Penalosa, Prairie Prince, Rob Stupka - drums
  • J. Jaffe - lap steel, slide guitar

References

  1. ^
    Billboard Magazine
    . Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Smotroff, Mark (August 23, 2017). "A Flamin' Groovies Kind of Plastic Fantastic Love". AudiophileReview.com. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  3. ^ Jones, Nicholas (2013-02-01). "The Hoodoo Gurus' Dig It Up 2013 Lineup Announced". Tone Deaf (AU). Retrieved 2017-10-29.
  4. ^ a b Performer listing and references to prior albums per sleeve credits.
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