Track Listing

1. Line Up
2. Annie
3. Connection
4. Car Song
5. Smile
6. Hold Me Now
7. S.O.F.T.
8. Indian Song
9. Blue
10. All-Nighter
11. Waking Up
12. 2:1
13. See That Animal
14. Stutter
15. Never Here
16. Vaseline

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17892 in Music
• Published on: 1995
• Released on: 1995-03-14
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Import edition of their Brit Pop classic that spawned many hit singles. Tracks, 'Line Up', 'Annie', 'Connection', 'Car Song', 'Smile', 'Hold Me Now', 'S.O.F.T.', 'Indian Song', 'Blue', 'All-Nighter', 'Waking Up', '2:1', 'See That Animal', 'Stutter', 'Neve

Amazon.com
It all began with the perfect pop moment of "Stutter," and then everyone wondered if Elastica had it in them to produce more sublime songs. Elastica showed that they did. Never quite as much Britpop as Birdpop, Justine Frischmann parlayed a Bryan Ferry hairstyle into an individual take on the world with material like "Car Song" and "2:1," while the rest of the band showed that they were along for more than just the ride. And if they owed a debt to Wire, well, it was all paid in the end (out of the royalties). The question was, could they ever follow it up? Chris Nickson

Customer Reviews

At Least Britpop had Elastica
Elastica was considered a britpop band, but miles ahead of junk like Oasis and Blur. Elastica won't change your life, nor is it a groundbreaking record. But the almost all-girl band plays a great blend of catchy, edgy, pop rock with a hard edge to it.

Justine Frischmann and Donna Matthews add the right vocals, and they never sound as forced as that annoying Kathleen Hannah and Courtney Love, who, when trying to do rock, fail miserably. I really don't know how the band is able to put a metallic edge and sing pop vocals on top, but they do it. A couple of complaints would be the very bland choruses/harmonies (the horrible S.O.F.T. is full of them) that can pop out from time to time, but there's less of that. You'll want to sing along.

The band themselves can rock out for the best of them. Once again, it's amazing how they can have hard rock and pop vocals on top, but it happened. It's the chemistry, probably. The guitar riffs are tasty pretty much, but the bass and drums really have their chances to shine, or at least display a stellar use of addictive, dancable goodness. And those bass tones are thick and hearty, you could ________ eat that gun-up on Line Up. Metallic pop-punk-rock has never sound so good.

Elastica were often accused of being a rip off of the band Wire (they were sued by the band), but Elastica has enough twists to be there own. Then again, I've never heard Wire, so what do I care? Elastica is a bit deriative (The Indian Song=The Beatles influence), but a good pop song is a good pop song, and Elastica deliver plenty of them.

7/10

I have a strong hunch, this year or next, there will be a 2CD deluxe of this classic...
OK, I've always loved this album, but it too went missing...then I thought, oh jeez, this album is 13 years old!!! I recently got the 4CD "Brit Box", and "Stutter" is on it, Elastica's representation...and it still retained its snap, crackle & pop...but I had the urge to hear "Connection" again, and the whole album really...I wanted to see if it still held up...I just found a good used copy, so I bought it, popped it on, and it all came flooding back.

Really effing great, and the type of lightning-in-a-bottle magic, where everything came together...songwise, stylewise, hitwise (this album had like 6 hit singles??!!??), just once...then the Stone Roses curse set in, where they couldn't follow it up perfectly and much too late, 2001's "The Menace", while decent and even enjoyable, but Justine and co's moment had come and gone...the Roses were delayed by a record company lawsuit...Elastica were delayed by Justine's perfectionism, and bandmembers defecting.

Now that the air is cleared up, and this album entered the realm of nostagia, I recall that while on Geffen and Infectious UK (I think that's their indie label in Britain??), they released a TON of B-sides and BBC sessions. Now that Geffen and Universal releases these 2CD deluxe packages...there's one out shortly on Beck's groundbreaking "Odelay", and there were 3 on Sonic Youth...it would be a GREAT idea (hint hint) for the label to reissue this landmark album, remastered and freshened up for this generation as well as 90s kids and 70s/80s punk/new wave kids...with ALL their great B-sides and more in one tidy, compact place...dontcha think??? Maybe include some songs that were scrapped and intended for a possible Geffen followup????

Just a thought...loving this album all over again...oh joy!!!

a classic
i had this cd years ago...and somewhere along the way it went missing so i had to have a replacement. Now that i listen to it again, i remember why it was so great. there are so many bands out there now (yes, that i can admit that i enjoy) that have a similar sounds (a la the sounds). enjoyable, fun, and a classic