Oh digipaks, how I love thee. Oh 4 Plugs, how I love thee as well. 4 Plugs is a unique beast in Mad's discography; neither the melodic punk of Park and albums before it, nor the digital hardcore which was beginning to show on Digidogheadlock, it represents Mad beginning towards a musical direction which they ended up not sticking with, and created one unique and heavy bass-dominated hardcore melodic rap punk record. (Okay, Digidogheadlock is a little close, but not by too much.)
It may have been the heavy dominance of Takeshi's bass, both performance-wise and in the mix, that caused guitarist ISHIG∀KI to end up leaving Mad in October of 1996 to play in Ends, the new project from Soft Ballet vocalist Ryoichi Endo. An unfortunate turn of events, but it still got a really great album out of 4 Plugs.
In any case, this entry is really more about this special digipak edition. Tak Mad made a post about stickers enclosed in the digipak edition, which notified me of this edition's existence and sent me looking for it, but my copy did not have any of those stickers, unfortunately. Thankfully, it did have an obi, which not a lot of other digipak copies on Yahoo Auctions had. There was one small cost, that the spine of the digipak itself was a bit faded, but at least the obi covers that right up.
The tracklisting is as follows:
2. Crack
3. Kami-Uta
4. Rust Off System
5. Walk!
6. Normal Life
7. Another Plug
8. S.H.Ō.D.O.K.U.
10. PGM On
11. Don't Suss Me Out
12. Destruction At The Door
13. O･U･T
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