Almost all of the time it is in control of the record companies. You sign a contact from day one and if you don't do exactly what they tell you they will make sure you don't make it. We will probably never know but most likely they had material ready to go but there were some disagreements. This use to happen all the time with bands in the 80s and 90s before the internet, where there would be massive delays between albums ( it should be one year approx. ) but for sure if it is 2, and if it's 3 or more years every one doesn't care about you anymore.
@@RealKevM what are you talking about mate?. The menace was an incredible album of theirs!. It consisted of underappreciated tracks like "Mad dog", "Love like ours" and "Miami nice". Maybe you should check those out yeah?.
Love this band SO HARD. Played them incessantly in the 90s....and beyond! I don't think they got nearly the recognition they should have, as a grrrl group. Great stuff. Not a stinker on that whole album!
The 1990’s era of “Britpop” stood on the shoulders of the accomplishments of the music videos which preceded them on UK “Top of the Pops”, MTV in the USA, etc. I also agree about Blur. It is forgotten that MOST groups DO NOT hold fame like the Rolling Stones, ABBA, and VERY few others. By the way, I am honored to have received a comment from gypsyspacemuffin0 whose name is more fantastic than anything I could imagine! Thank you.
@@cynicallydepressed1 it's one of those albums where only a small handful of songs could quickly be taken out of contention for 'best song'.. Even now I'd have to say I have a favourite 3 or 4 not a fave 1. This album was a large part of my '96 soundtrack...
I'm not sure where you are now, or where you were here in the States at the time, but as someone born and raised in what was still somewhat thought of is the remote, far-flung outpost of the Pacific Northwest, I certainly knew of them via (the formerly great) KNDD-FM out of Seattle, that played "Connection" quite often. I not only bought their album as soon as it was available locally, but also purchased a number of their UK import CD singles from the local Borders (RIP), all of which I still have nearly 30 years later. I played the heck out of all of them during my Uni years in Bellingham WA, and may have been one and the few there that dug them so intensely. I also bought their delayed follow-up album when it was finally released, and was saddened that it all ended far too soon.
This is so clean and spare and brilliant, and the lyric is just so biting. Why they didn't have huge success I'll never understand. This is as good as it gets.
Their debut album was awesome, and perfect, every single track of it. Always hated this band imploded, after only 2 albums. Always have wondered what could've been, had things worked out differently. Man, the '90s were a great time, and a great time for bands, music, and killer albums. Not just a good song, here and there, which is the norm nowadays, but complete albums actually being good, and worth your money to purchase them. Never have been happier, and more grateful, to have spent my teen years during the '90s, and my childhood during the '80s, than I have been during these last 4 years.
@@pg6917 wow, what a negative comment.. My nanna used to say, 'if you can't say something nice, STFU' (I paraphrase, ofc).. Pretty apparent why so many kids are badly affected by social media, with such encouraging and supportive comments being casually tossed around...
The band became subject to controversy when several bands sued them for plagiarism. Specifically, the post-punk band Wire (whom Elastica counted as one of their main influences) claimed that many of the band's melodies were taken from Wire compositions, as well as by The Stranglers. Notably, Wire's "I Am the Fly" has a chorus similar to Elastica's "Line Up" and the intro synthesizer part in Elastica's "Connection" (later also repeated on guitar) is lifted from the guitar riff in Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba" and transposed a semitone, and The Stranglers also passed comment that Elastica's "Waking Up" bore a marked resemblance to their song "No More Heroes". The disputes were resolved by out-of-court settlements.
[Verse 1] Drivel head wears her glad rags She's got her keys, money and fags I know that her mind is made up To get rocked [Verse 2] Drivel head needs a new man As only a drivel head can He's a hormonal nightmare So beware [Chorus] Another victim of line up in line, line up in line is all I remember Oh, how the favour has changed, you could've been kinder Yes, yes, line up in line, line up in line, is all I remember Oh, how their favours change, you could have been mine [Verse 3] Drivel head knows all the stars Loves to suck their shining guitars They've all been right up her stairs Do you care? No [Verse 4] Drivel head knows all the bands Knows them like the back of her hands You can't see the wood for the trees On your knees [Chorus] Another victim of line up in line, line up in line is all I remember Oh, how the favour has changed, you could have been kinder Yes, yes, line up in line, line up in line is all I remember Oh, how the favour has changed, you could have been mine
WoW ... to think Suede could have been more like this !! I can't even remember any of their songs. Still have 8 songs from this album on my playlist now, all these years later lol
D' you know, you never know. I thought the same about Lush, that it was game over a long time ago since Chris died, but when they did reunite, albeit briefly in 2016 (using Elastica's drummer BTW, Justin Welch) I was at the same time over the moon, and also very sad because the timing was wrong and I never made it to any of the gigs they did, but you really never know, many bands do tend to reunite these days...
Until I forgot all about this band when I heard "Connection" somewhere and was like what ? I remember that ... then this morning it took a few minutes to find the band as all I had was a beat in my head but eventually it triggered me remembering ... Elastica !!!!! What a great album
Athough this song was (relatively,) massively popular, it is, oddly, the song that people will remember Elastica by because it is such a blatant lift from Wire ( I am the Fly). Of course they were abviously big fans of Wire from the beginning, and of course they were original artists in their own right, and of course it isn't fair. But, as the philosophers say, tha's life.
There's nothing wrong with "plagarising" music. For instance, the breeders(cannonball) took it from fugazi(waiting room). Killing joke(eighties) stole it from the damned(life goes on). Besides,it's not who does it first that counts it's about who does it better.
Fuck me… All these people banging on about how it’s like Wire’s I Am The Fly.. The only similarity is the way I am the fly and lineup in line are phrased, other than that I am the fly sounds more like boys and girls by Blur at the beginning. Elastica‘s first album has 15 tunes all of which are bangers.. even if there’s a vague similarity to other bands in 3 of them that does nothing to take away from the other 12. Stone cold classic end of…
I just got into them this last may and tbh if had a time machine I use it to go back to the 90s and witness the rise/hype of said bands performing at thier peak
