Elastica

[liberalpragmatist]

I just got their CD from my library - I really like it. A lot of fun, very catchy, great lyrics, and Justine Frischmann's voice is really sexy.

Anybody else like this?

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Haven't listened to Elastica in years...

I remember liking them back around 1995 or so, though.

[Rick Myers]

2. The first album was GREAT!!!

[Ready4Change]

3. On a lark, I took that CD on a long trip.

Getting drowsy on the first day of the trip, sweltering in the heat and driving into the sun, I popped that CD in, not because I expected to like it, but because it wasn't the same old thing I always listen to.

WOW!

Woke me right up. Kept me alert for the next 3 hours.

Great, fun stuff.

[liberalpragmatist]

4. Yup. It's fun

I'm kicking this to see if anybody else wants to add anything :)

[Ready4Change]

6. Nope.

Oops! Oh now, now people are going to think this is a hot topic! ;)

[liberalpragmatist]

8. Ha!

Revelling in my "dastardliness" in bumping my own thread!

[Ready4Change]

9. Oh no! More responses!

There is NOTHING to see here, folks. NOTHING! Move along.

(Make the horror stop. Make it stop!)

[Strawman]

5. I liked their first CD

Don't know if they did anything else, but yeah. That was a good album.

[liberalpragmatist]

7. They apparently have another one

I read up a little on them. Supposedly the group sank into a pit of heroin addictions and intra-band conflicts, plus various other personal problems. They changed lineups dramatically, remerged as a sextet in 2000 and released a poorly-received follow-up that dropped without a trace both in the UK and the US. Then they broke up shortly afterward.

[swag]

11. The later album and ep's are pastiches of pastiches, unobjectionable, and

quite listenable, but a disappointment for someone hoping for a return to the surprising, energizing, bashing perfection of the first disc (alas, those were different times).

[swag]

10. Great resurrection of my favorite late 70s sounds,

i.e. Stranglers, Wire, Fall, as done by three very attractive women and one very attractive man.

A favorite record and batch of singles, that first burst.