The Elastica debut album poll

i think i'm voting for http://mafiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/cocaine.jpg

stutter still sounds fantastic, and never here & s.o.f.t are still killers, but i can't go past vaseline.

also it was speed not cocaine iirc

would be happy to never hear connection again tbqh

"Stutter" is a monster, as good as prime Wire.

Could have voted for "Never Here" (her best set of lyrics), "Car Song," "Connection," "Waking Up," "Animal," or a couple of others. Fuck Blur -- this, the first Suede record, and Pulp's Different Class are all I needed from "Britpop."

i have a line from 'waking up' letrasetted on the pick guard on my rickenbacker

also it was speed not cocaine iirc

think the joke was "line up"

Never really liked Waking Up that much. Love p much all the others tho.

One of the most frustratingly inconsistent albums I've ever heard. Went with "Blue" partly because I bet "Stutter" will win handily and I want "Blue" to get some votes; and partly because it's brilliant.

i kind of did this poll for the Blur connection.

the coke picture is for "Line Up" but could also be for "All-Nighter." that is my first reaction, will probably vote for something all together different thou.

So good, have no idea what I'm gonna vote for.

oooh this is going to be tough

too soon to tell, but right now "Waking UP" is the only one of these that I can see myself listening to over & over for the next four hours

"Line Up" I love. This would be a good 90-min cassette with Is This It? on side B.

I give this album a 10 out of 10.

I have no idea what to vote for.

cracking band visually too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc8hEWkQ0io

never beaten with the ugly stick

http://www.stutter.demon.co.uk/elastica/images/bw_promo.jpg

Waking Up for me too i guess.

shame this wasn't on it too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntv8NuP9B4o

early b-sides 'pussycat' and 'spastica' both good enough to have been on here too

would be happy to never hear connection again tbqh

I hope I never agree with this.

Never Here

"Stutter"..

I went to get this when it came out, but it was so limited it sold out within 30 mins.

Years later, I managed to get a copy. Britpop was over, it was dust and brooms time, and I found it in an online shop for £20.

The limited number printed on it was 000002.

Story of Britpop, right there.

Love this album back to back but Never Here is on another level.

Sorry, front to back. I'm very tired.

The limited number printed on it was 000002

Isn't that traditionally a band member's copy? Why would they be so desperate to sell off precious memorabilia for ready cash?

That's what I mean by "the story of Britpop in a nutshell"

This album is perfect. I voted for Never Here, Stutter would be a close second.

early b-sides 'pussycat' and 'spastica' both good enough to have been on here too

― molly linndrum (electricsound), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:21 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Love Spastica. This whole album is totally killer. 'Stutter' or 'S.O.F.T' for me today.

Then, now and forever: "Stutter"

blue

I don't know See That Animal, it wasn't on the UK version. Track order is different as well.

Got to be Stutter though.

Love this album. voted "see that animal" so it gets a vote, but it could have been 6 or 7 others.

Love this album, too, and I voted 'Stutter'.

i'm glad to hear that Justine Frischmann is doing OK:

In 2005, Frischmann moved to Boulder, Colorado where she studied visual arts at Naropa University, a small, Buddhist-inspired liberal arts college. In July 2008, Frischmann married a U.S. college professor. Her first solo art show was in 2008, and since then she has exhibited nationally. Her most recent show, "Mother Tongue", opened in San Francisco in June 2010.

She now lives and works in San Rafael, California with her husband, who is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of California-Davis.

Isn't one of the others ... a nun? Or something like that?

donna found god in a big way but i don't think she's a nun per se

Waking Up vs S.O.F.T.

no wrong choices here, but Connection is my all-time favorite song.

Saying fuck it and going with "Stutter," but this is a great album

.. and justin is now working with james from emf as asbokid

Voting SOFT since Stutter's gonna win anyway.

“The more successful we became, the more money we made, the more drugs I took, and the more bizarre my behaviour became. I had always fed on praise, but I began to need it continually. I had to be successful at any cost. I didn’t realise my soul was starving. I became a heroin addict. I spent the next five or so years trying to get clean and failing. I left elastica in 1998.”
Donna’s spiritual search was beginning and she searched everywhere for spiritual truth. She read books by Kerouac and Burroughs who were searching for spiritual reality in rejecting society, whilst reading other Buddhist literature. She knew that a full revelation of God was eluding her even though God was speaking to her in dreams, eventually after a few years of sincere God searching she attended an Alpha Course at Holy Trinity Brompton. “I was still really sceptical about believing that Jesus was the way and I kept challenging God to show this to me. He had to be clear that Jesus was real, it was at the Holy Spirit weekend away that Jesus became real to me soon after I became a Christian.”

Music is still a massive part of Donna’s life but here priorities have changed completely, where she idolised music and the fame it brought her, she now desires to put God first in everything.

“As an artist you can’t be searching for the world’s approval and be seeking God sincerely… I’ve realised my hunger for God and how I’m desperate to get closer. I love music because it has the capacity to bring me into God’s presence, but I also know I need to be around people who have the same hunger for God, and who can teach me more about Him.”

Today Donna leads the CU at her University whilst pursuing her passion for music on a new level. She came to join Ichthus for the Summer Project this year to develop her gifting in Evangelism. “The bottom line is this; God just keeps loving me so I just can’t stop telling people about Jesus...I look for opportunities and God just open doors. So if you are filled with Jesus love you will naturally tell others, but conversely don’t just sit there waiting to ‘feel’ filled so you have to tell others, I have found that you discover a connection with God when doing evangelism as you depend on Him in those situations.” Donna had an amazing time on the Summer Project and hopes to return next year!

a stone cold classic. stutter vs. never here - leaning toward the latter

Stutter

Sex. I was never really man enough to fancy Justine at the time. I liked the guitarist more. I remember the first time the Stutter video came on The Chart Show. God, I watched it twenty times that day.

See That Animal must have an Anderson credit on it, from memory? They mention "heavy metal" after all, so...

I liked the guitarist more.

oh donna..

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Then, now and forever: "Stutter"

― Alex in NYC

Kind of o_O that Alex doesn't hate Elastica!

"Indian Song" is terrible, but everything else is vintage gold. "Stutter" wins though.

Why would he? They're "punk."

STUTTER

Waking Up

14. Stutter
15. Never Here

there are many good-to-great songs on the album (also many I can't recall from the title despite listening to this thing to death) but I always liked this pairing - maybe it's just surprise at the moment when they actually get two of their best songs in a row, without needing to put something throwaway and forgettable in between

Stutter clearly doesn't need my help here so going with Never Here

stutter, its just perfect punky pop

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I think "Never Here" and "Waking up" seemed too transparent in subject matter to be great (I really liked "Waking Up" when it was a free track on an NME cassette, but by the time it came out as a single, I'd gone off it), but all the rest of the album is OK and fine by me.

Why on earth would I hate Elastica?

shit, I don't think I saw this poll - woulda repped for Annie! I still put it in mixes. The Best Things In The World Are Free!

^ There's a great live BBC version on the "Stutter" CD single. Kills the studio version, actually.

Just realised I've been confusing Donna and Annie all these years--always assumed the one who got on smack and went nuts was the really raddled-looking one in the band pictures

Why on earth would I hate Elastica?

A band that
[*] was part of a (retroactively) derided movement
[*] gleefully rips off (post-)punk critical darlings
[*] is not Killing Joke

strikes me as something Alex in NYC (or, a cartoon version thereof) would totally hate!

I always thought Elastica were unfairly lumped in w/ Britpop - prob due more to the Albarn-Frischmann tabloid sensation than anything having to do w/ their music. Inasmuch as they were retro-minded, they had more in common w/ the early-00s post-punk revivalists than dad/trad BP bands.

Good record.

does anyone else they had this on the turntable when they wrote Stutter? Marked similarity in the verses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phv0y0eTrC0

Inasmuch as they were retro-minded, they had more in common w/ the early-00s post-punk revivalists than dad/trad BP bands.

with NWONW morelike

New Wave of New Wave?

considering that was the scene they came out in, yes

[*] is not Killing Joke

Oh please. At last count, I have about 2,600 CD's (yes, I'm old), and only about thirty of them are Killing Joke.

[*] gleefully rips off (post-)punk critical darlings

I believe it's called "homage," and they always copped to it.

weird i would never have picked stutter. it's perfectly solid but it doesn't do much for me.

always copped to it.

once lawyers made them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvHD5sRoKOg

Justine Frischmann: ''Why I Dropped Music for art''