My friend John Kass has called them "one of the best American bands ever," and I think he has a good argument. While so many of the 80s garage revivalists used meticulous perfection of their imitations as the main criteria for greatness (and some of them produced very fine records in the process), Plasticland seemed more concerned with blowing the whole thing up. Lyrically, they were always awesomely over the top, and everything else about them, from their fuzz riffs to their costumes was just far more extreme than the competition. They still perform occasionally; I saw them in 2003, and they played a virtual greatest-hits set. They were magnificent. All of their early singles are available on the excellent Mink Dress and Other Cats CD (Timothy's Brain Records, possibly out of print already), but if anyone has copies of the "Vibrasonics From Plasticland" EP or the "Mink Dress" 45 that they'd like to sell, please do get in touch.