Elastica's debut album may cop a riff here and there from Wire or the Stranglers, yet no more than Led Zeppelin did with Willie Dixon or the Beach Boys with Chuck Berry. The key is context. Elastica can make the rigid artiness of Wire into a rocking, sexy single with more hooks than anything on Pink Flag ("Connection") or rework the Stranglers' "No More Heroes" into a more universal anthem that loses none of its punkiness ("Waking Up"). But what makes Elastica such an intoxicating record is not only the way the 16 songs speed by in 40 minutes, but that they're nearly all classics. The riffs are angular like early Adam & the Ants, the melodies tease like Blondie, and the entire band is as tough as the Clash, yet they never seem anything less than contemporary. Justine Frischmann's detached sexuality adds an extra edge to her brief, spiky songs -- "Stutter" roars about a boyfriend's impotence, "Car Song" makes sex in a car actually sound sexy, "Line Up" slags off groupies, and "Vaseline" speaks for itself. Even if the occasional riff sounds like an old wave group, the simple fact is that hardly any /p>
ew wave band made records this consistently rocking and melodic.
..I'm always fascinated by where songs come from... some are more obvious than others.....I love Elastica... and I love their hit song "Connection"... I also love the band Wire... so does Elastica... so much so that they lifted the riff from "Three Girl Rhumba"... We all have influences... Here's Elastica.....
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Stutter..Elastica were a Britpop band who were popular in the 1990s, formed by Justine Frischmann after leaving Suede in 1991. Their first single was 1993's "Stutter", which was a word-of-mouth hit largely due to the promotional efforts of Radio 1 DJ and Deceptive Records label boss Steve Lamacq..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastica.Connection...Filling in the gaps. No.45http://mog.com/Neill/b...
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As of late, I've been getting pleasure out of living through my childhood again through music. It seems like every time I hear a song that I remember from that time period, my mind becomes awash in happy memories. Has that lovely, euphoric feeling ever taken you over while listening to older music?
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..I'm always fascinated by where songs come from... some are more obvious than others.....I love Elastica... and I love their hit song "Connection"... I also love the band Wire... so does Elastica... so much so that they lifted the riff from "Three Girl Rhumba"... We all have influences... Here's Elastica.....
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Stutter..Elastica were a Britpop band who were popular in the 1990s, formed by Justine Frischmann after leaving Suede in 1991. Their first single was 1993's "Stutter", which was a word-of-mouth hit largely due to the promotional efforts of Radio 1 DJ and Deceptive Records label boss Steve Lamacq..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastica.Connection...Filling in the gaps. No.45http://mog.com/Neill/b...
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So, a friend is doing a thing at college where his band have to find 3 classic britpop songs from 1994-1997 & learn & play them.He's only 16, so scarily, Britpop passed him by, so he asked me... as an elderly friend. I can't actually think of any other good bands that came out of the Britpop era. Blur, maybe. At least they mixed it up a bit. It's strange... I just got all nostalgic, looking at ...
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As of late, I've been getting pleasure out of living through my childhood again through music. It seems like every time I hear a song that I remember from that time period, my mind becomes awash in happy memories. Has that lovely, euphoric feeling ever taken you over while listening to older music?
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| 1 Line Up |
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| 2 Annie |
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| 3 Connection |
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| 4 Car Song |
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| 5 Smile |
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| 6 Hold Me Now |
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| 7 S.O.F.T. |
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| 8 Indian Song |
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| 9 Blue |
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| 10 All Nighter |
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| 11 Waking Up |
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| 12 2:1 |
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| 13 See That Animal |
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| 14 Stutter |
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| 15 Never Here |
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| 16 Vaseline |
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