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	Elastica: Elastica ---Ink Blot Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Radio 1's Steve Lamacq and John Peel took a shine to the group and before any singles or album were released, Elastica were voted the Best New Band of 1993 by NME readers.
		Elastica toured worldwide through 1996, on the way losing Holland to exhaustion, while picking up Sheila Chipperfield as her replacement and Dave Bush on keyboards.
		Though the album may prove to be a one-off, it vividly captures a wildly creative time in British music and proves that some girls just wanna have fun.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Elastica_Elastica.htm (459 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Elastica
		Elastica's songs use Morse code rhythms and slashing, two-chord tunes, evoking the herky-jerky math-rock that preceded the grunge movement.
		The album's opening track, "Mad Dog God Dam," is particularly reminiscent of that era: not only does it evoke Wire's "1-2-X-U," but it also bears an uncanny resemblance to Elastica's hit "Connection," which was attacked by Wire for plagiarism.
		ELASTICA RODE into the spotlight in the mid-'90s on the female bandwagon, alongside such bands as the Breeders, Babes in Toyland, Veruca Salt, Lush and L7, but the group disappeared from the spotlight after one too many catfights and high jinks.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.07.00/elastica-0036.html (843 words)

	The Purdue Exponent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		From edgy punk to eclectic techno music, Elastica explores a plethora of new sounds, but, in their attempt to make an album in six weeks, the novelty is lost.
		It’s been five years since Elastica released their 1995 self-titled debut and one would think the band had been working on the new album in that time, but they hadn’t.
		The first three tracks on the album are full of catchy punk-pop, but after that the band completely changes their sound.
	www.purdueexponent.org /2000/08/29/entertainment (497 words)

	Stutter (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stutter is a popular single released by the britpop group Elastica.
		It was originally released in 1994 as a single.
		The album version wasn't released until 1995 on the self-titled debut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stutter_(song) (67 words)

	Elastica MP3 Downloads - Elastica Music Downloads - Elastica Music Videos
		Of course, they'd tried to record the album numerous times between late 1996 and 1999, so this material had been kicking around for a while, until it was finally cut in a concentrated burst of creativity.
		Where Elastica was smart, sexy, and hooky, The Menace is cerebral, dense, harsh, and dissonant, a culmination of their obsession with such detached avatars of post-punk cool as Wire and the Fall (whose Mark E. Smith guests on "How He Wrote Elastica Man").
		A handful of cuts are still just as catchy in their own way as the hits on Elastica; what separates them is that here, the band is as enamored with chaos as they are with hooks.
	www.mp3.com /albums/425217/summary.html (668 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Elastica: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Elastica were accused of many things in the wake of this debut album, not least that many of their songs bear a striking resemblance to stuff from New Wave punks Wire ("Connection" is said to have the same riff as their "Three Girl Rhumba").
		Elastica's song Connections was featured rather prominently in a couple of episodes of the short-lived television series My So-Called Life, and I was so enamored with this song that I bought Elastica's album.
		Punky-fast and fun(vaseline, blue) but still raw and beautiful (smile/hold me now)my fave song on this album is stutter, as i never listened to it as it was the last sonmg on the slbum until i was 15, i was soooo angry that i had missed years of loving the best song on the album.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000024GWV (1558 words)

	Elastica : Elastica - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		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.
		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.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,204575,00.html (333 words)

	Elastica biography >> liveDaily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Elastica's brief, angular, and catchy punk rock became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1995.
		Elastica continued to make headway in America by replacing Sinead O'Connor on the 1995 Lollapalooza tour, although the group suffered a blow when Holland announced her exit from the lineup.
		A follow-up LP was years in the making, and Elastica's future was the subject of considerable media speculation; in the spring of 1999 Matthews quit as well, although Holland soon returned to the fold, joining new guitarist Paul Jones as well as keyboardists Dave Bush and Mew.
	www.livedaily.com /artists/bio/905.html (583 words)

	Smallmouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		In the mid '80s, a group of admirers of Wire's astonishing art-punk debut album, Pink Flag, formed a band called the Ex-Lion Tamers (after a song on the album) and taught themselves to cover the entire record straight through, note for note, down to the exact length of pauses between songs.
		In their first incarnation, between 1977 and 1980, they were evolving so fast that their three studio albums (Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154) barely sound like the work of the same band; Behind the Curtain, an album of early demos, reveals that their songs mutated drastically within a few months.
		The album is, nonetheless, terrific: energetic and risky and dripping with attitude.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/00/06/01/SMALLMOUTH.html (507 words)

	The Elastica FAQ File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Elastica are a predominately female British band who emerged to great critical acclaim in 1993.
		I saw a record collecting guide which said it was worth UKP 12, but that was before Elastica came into the limelight to the extent that they have.
		Several Elastica songs have bizarre (and irrelevant) exchanges between members of the band at the beginning or end.
	www.stutter.demon.co.uk /elastica/faq.html (2444 words)

	Elastica: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Elastica are pencilled in to appear at the Doctor Music Festival in Spain, which runs from the 11th-13th of July at three different venues.
		Elastica have recorded a new session for Radio 1 which will be broadcast in the week starting 5th August on the Evening Session.
		Elastica are now back home after finally finishing their mammoth touring stint which has taken them around most of the world in the past twelve months.
	www.stutter.demon.co.uk /elastica/news.html (3027 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Elastica - Elastica at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Elastica first hit airwaves with brief, punk tracks like Stutter, Line Up and eventually Connection even before they released their full length debut.
		Many of Elastica’s songs, despite their successes, ended up to be at least in part lifted and twisted from other acts and the band found themselves in court yet were settled out of public eye before the band’s popular debut saw the light of day.
		Sure, Elastica is by and large a chick band, but they don’t wallow in their own self-pity.
	www.epinions.com /content_62559063684 (807 words)

	Elastica - Eponymous \| Album Review @ Music-Critic.com : the source for music reviews, interviews, articles, and news ...
		While the album did not break any new grounds musically, it is still a well founded, solid effort.
		Elastica is one of England's best bands in quite some time.
		The album was ranked #4 in the 1996 Critic's Poll.
	www.music-critic.com /rock/elastica_eponymous.htm (238 words)

	Raspberry World - Music - Review - Elastica
		Elastica is perfect British power-punk-pop, a real band, playing tight rhythms and riffs, singing sharp lyrics that make you want to play the songs again and again.
		Their debut album, Elastica, released in 1995, is also, unfortunately, their only album.
		Elastica had radio hits with a few of their songs, like Connection, Car Song, and Stutter, but this is one of those CDs where every song is good.
	www.raspberryworld.com /music/elastica.html (465 words)

	Ink 19 :: Elastica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Elastica in general, and Frischmann in particular, has often been accused of "borrowing heavily" from their influences (if not outright stealing), and at one point, was even sued by legal representatives for Wire and the Stranglers (the suits were settled out of court).
		I thought that was the only way that the album was going to have any kind of cohesion, because at that point, I was like, "how the fuck am I going to chose from all this music which has been made by all these different people?" We'd had so many different people in the band.
		In another way, I think this album was a menace to make, it did my fucking head in trying to make this album after the success of the first one and what I saw in the music industry and the way I thought that I was presented.
	www.ink19.com /issues/october2000/inkSpots/elastica.html (3318 words)

	Elastica Album Reviews
		The album was spearheaded by a handful of excellent singles (“Stutter,”; “Line Up,” “Connection,”; “Waking Up”), but the album is crammed with first-class tracks, several of which could have been used as singles as well.
		The album’s fourth and last (?) single was “Waking Up,” perhaps the most retro-ish new wave-track on the album, one that takes you back to the heyday of bands such as Magazine and Echo and The Bunnymen.
		However, despite these details, Elastica is still an album that seems to rush by in 20 minutes, thanks to the excellent song sequencing (and 16 songs in 40 minutes isn’t bad either), loads of memorable hooks, melodies, lyrics and (gotta admit it) the irresistible sexiness of Justine Frischmann’s delivery and playing.
	www.guypetersreviews.com /elastica.php (1251 words)

	Elastica: The Menace (2000): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Menace is a far more varied and ambitious LP than the first and, one suspects, than the Elastica album we'd have got four or three years ago.
		This CD isn't bad, but not good enough to merit a five-year gap between their classic first album and this (I'd guess was due to Justine Frischmann's heroin problems).
		Witht he release of "The Menace" Elastica has finally gripped onto what seems to be their best album yet.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/elastica/menace (613 words)

	Detailed Reviews [Banda Elastica - 2003 - "Ai Tencargo"] - ProgressoR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Although I've heard only two albums by Banda Elastica, I am almost sure that the band follows the same style (which is definitely their own and highly unique) already for many years, if not from the start.
		And although the new Banda Elastica album is at every respect better than its predecessor, the band's general musical direction remains unchanged on it - at least on the whole.
		In such a specific music as that of Banda Elastica, all the involved instruments (marimba, saxophones, flutes, electric, acoustic, and bass guitars, and drums) are at the forefront of the musical events, so the sound is always rich and polyphonic.
	www.progressor.net /review/banda_elastica_2003.html (643 words)

	NME.COM - News - JUSTINE - THE ALBUM WAS A MENACE! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		NME.COM - News - JUSTINE - THE ALBUM WAS A MENACE!
		Elastica made most of 'The Menace' before their performances at last year's Reading/Leeds festivals but then decided to re-record the album completely because they weren't satisfied with it.
		Elastica are considering playing Glastonbury (June 23-25) and the V200 festivals (August 19 & 20) at Chelmsford and Staffordshire but are yet to be confirmed.
	www.nme.com /news/2718.htm (561 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Menace - Elastica at Epinions.com
		Incredibly successful, the Elastica debut sold tons of copies in Britain and at the time was the most popular debut of any artist in England to date.
		Elastica seems to be able to blend many different kinds of rock into one well made, creative entity with one fantastic goal in mind…to entertain.
		While the song is immediately recognizable by the programmed beats, the band adds dashes of their own attitude to the mix to create an absolutely original rendition of the song.
	www.epinions.com /content_89298865796 (1202 words)

	NME.COM - News - AT LAST ELASTICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Meanwhile, Elastica have finally finished their as-yet-untitled second album and it's set for release in March on Deceptive.
		The last is described as "a sultry, spoken word by Justine" by a spokesman for Elastica, though it isn't a cover of the Ultravox spoken word track of the same name.
		It's rumoured that Mark E Smith, who appeared on August's 'Elastica EP', appears on the new album and Loz Hardy, ex of Kingmaker, has collaborated on some of the new material.
	www.nme.com /news/2343.htm (285 words)

	Elastica: 6-Track EP ---Ink Blot Magazine
		Hardly a musical statement, the EP is merely a workout, an amusing reminder of those giddy thoughts that passed through your head when Elastica first spun in your CD player.
		Closing track "Generator" brings all the new pieces together - the soft, girly "oooh," a strangely melodic yet uneven keyboard progression, deep bass riffs, and shouty vocals featuring the line "I'm a third rate imitator; I'm a second-hand fornicator," something Justine's critics have said for years.
		That she can repeat it with her trademark feigned flirtatious innocence proves she doesn't take herself too seriously and that perhaps Elastica's heyday isn't necessarily in the past.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Elastica_EP.htm (533 words)

	Observer Newspaper - Scene
		This album is a textbook example of a hit or miss record that will have some fans claiming "Elastica is back!" but most wishing that they had worked on the album for another five years.
		The opening song, "Maddog," is one of the strongest on the album and is reminiscent of the Elastica of old.
		Now, of course, this does not mean that the album is not worth hearing, but it does serve to make one wonder what on earth Frischmann and Elastica have been doing over the past five years.
	www.nd.edu /~observer/10102000/Scene/1.html (643 words)

	TWAS 10: Elastica, Sleeper, Lida Husik, Laurie Anderson
		Though Elastica and Sleeper are undeniably peers, the two bands differ significantly in several respects.
		Having heard the album I don't understand the connection at all, but the reference deserved to be passed on, just the same.
		Her control of timing and timbre, and her use of repeated phrases, are musical in the strictest sense, and while this album is most devoid of melody as we're used to hearing it, the distinction between "melody" and what Laurie does with her voice here only really obtains if you don't examine it too closely.
	www.furia.com /twas/twas0010.html (2019 words)

	Amazon.com: Elastica: Music: Elastica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The album has a very consistent sound (perhaps a polite way of saying all the songs sound the same, which is a fair criticism, but since I like them, it's not something I'm going to complain about).
		Justine et all put together perhaps one of the best albums to come down the pike in the nearly barren wasteland of the 1990's (heck that extends to the 2000's).
		That Elastica use Wire as a starting point is perfectly fine with me! Our heroine's troubles with heroin meant that her muse was killed as quickly as it came, but she left behind a very nice monument to the sounds of agitated punk girl group rock - circa mid 1990s (now a decade old).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000024GWV?v=glance (1242 words)

	Elastica: The Menace - PopMatters Music Review
		For however many Elastica fans there are still around these days, listening to The Menace will be like sitting front-and center on an aural dual between Suede and Blur -- the album flip-flops through the cosmic, contemplative, sonic tensions of 13 with the free-for-all, drug induced stuporific rallying of Head Music.
		This album won't save any lives, or be sampled for that many mixed tapes.
		But, without a doubt, Elastica will be a menace with this album, airplay or no. Go to their concert buzzed on something, and chant with Justine from "Just The Way I Like It": "I'm living all right, I'm doing okay...
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/e/elastica-menace.shtml (498 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Menace: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Elastica's second album, The Menace, comes a full five years after their million selling, self-titled debut.
		Elastica are now more mature without losing any of their shut up and listen edge.
		Elastica arrived just when we, and Britpop, needed them most in ’95 and five years later they sign off with an album that means we wont forget their contribution.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004S780 (933 words)

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