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Product Details

  • Audio CD (August 22, 2000)
  • Original Release Date: August 22, 2000
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Atlantic / Wea
  • ASIN: B00004VW28
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #170,053 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Mad Dog God Dam
2. Generator
3. How He Wrote Elastica Man
4. Image Change
5. Your Arse...My Place
6. Human
7. Nothing Stays the Same
8. Miami Nice
9. Love Like Ours
10. KB
11. My Sex
12. Way I Like It
13. Da Da Da

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Elastica's second album, The Menace, comes a full five years after their million-selling, self-titled debut. A long wait, to say the least, but The Menace doesn't find Elastica making a radical change from the angular pop of their first album. The departure of guitarist Donna Matthews (who still plays on two tracks, "How He Wrote Elastica Man"--which also features the Fall's Mark E. Smith--and "Image Change") steered the band away from their punkier leanings and allowed them to fully explore the new wave path that they started down way back in 1995. Keyboards and synths now blend more completely with their spiky guitars, as do cheesy Casio tone beats and retro-futuristic samples, resulting in such hyperenergetic numbers as "Mad Dog" and "Your Arse My Place." Elastica still wear their influences on their sleeves--yep, they sure do like Wire--and they even manage to fit a legitimate cover onto the album (Trio's 1982 hit "Da Da Da"). Five years on, The Menace sees Elastica on the same ground as their debut, but rather than simply retreading it, they just dig deeper and unearth more treasures. --Robert Burrow

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An exciting new-wave junkyard, August 22, 2000
Elastica's The Menace does NOT follow the formula of their previous album. It is still new-wave and full of influences. Justine Frischmann still rules the record with riot grrl attitude. However, the album is grittier and looser and stupider than "Elastica". The clever lyrics of 'Never Here' or 'Stutter' have been replaced by songs like 'Your Arse My Place' and 'How He Wrote Elastica Man'. On 'How He Wrote...', they literally spell out their own name. There are ambient stretches of synth, followed by grinding guitar, and the transitions are often jerky. The Menace is a good and energized album that, oddly, sounds like the work of a band getting brasher and less mature.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars I tried to love this cd, April 27, 2004
By W. Johnson (The Mile High City) - See all my reviews
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There was so much to look forward to on The Menace. Unfortunitely where Justine et Elastica delivered one of the best albums of the 1990's, they fall very much off the mark here. But is it a bad album? No there are certainly enough songs that are good and fun, but it is not the overall listening experience that their self titled debut was. A debut so good that invariably everyone will compare their second and only album to.

But in Defence of Elastica, this is a different album with a different goal and a nearly soap operetic change in the band. Unfortunitely even taken as its own entity, without comparison to the first Elastica CD, The Menace is an average effort at best and perhaps a harbinger to the band's destruction shortly there after.

Elastica is dead, long live Elastica.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars still snarling pop-punk but with a new synth sound, October 1, 2000
By S Cook "ninjagirl" (Dallas, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
I was one of those people who began to wonder if Elastica would ever put out the follow-up to their impressive debut. It's been 5 long years but it's finally here... but with some changes.

To start out with the line-up is different. Guitarist Donna Matthews, who played such a key role in their sound, is no longer in the band. She is missed, definitely, but the new more synthesized sound fills in her gap pretty well. At first I thought the onslaught of noisy keyboards was a bit much but the songs that feature them prominently soon became my favorites. Although I'm still not quite sure anyone actually knows how to play the instrument!

Some of the slower ones still remind me of the first album. Songs like "Nothing Stays the Same", and "Imagine Change." But like I said, I prefer the less mature, louder tracks like "Mad Dog" and "How He Wrote Elastica Man".

I think there is enough of the old sound to keep the old fans but perhaps enough of a change to gain them even a few more.

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3.0 out of 5 stars only bought it for one song, was good for two
I wanted a clean copy of Human. Miami Nice is ok for background music too however. The rest of the album is a letdown in my opinion.
Published 16 months ago by Peter DiGravio

2.0 out of 5 stars This is a MAJOR disappointment!!!
I remember loving Elastica's first album when it came out. The whole CD was great, but "Stutter" was especially a standout. Read more
Published 19 months ago by David Mastro

4.0 out of 5 stars Still fine after all this time
After a hit first album, which remains a classic and great favourite, there was a five-year gap before the follow-up arrived in 2000. Read more
Published on February 14, 2005 by Laurence Upton

5.0 out of 5 stars An overlooked gem
Post-Punk perfection. I have read many bad reviews of this album on other sites. I don't understand. Much better than their first.
Published on September 10, 2004 by Spinetrak

4.0 out of 5 stars one of their best!
This is art-punk at its best!
Published on March 5, 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars this new sound "almost" worked
wow. well. hum. i didn't see that one coming. a very weird follow up to much raved about debut. but at least they tried something different. Read more
Published on September 29, 2003 by mellowgold

5.0 out of 5 stars This CD owns me
It took me some time to warm up to this album, like Elastica's first. I find myself loving it just as much. Read more
Published on March 10, 2003 by A. Nakashian

5.0 out of 5 stars Raw girl rock
I love this album. It took me a few listens before I liked it. It grew on me a lot and now it's another classic to add to my list. Elastica's first album, it's not. Read more
Published on September 17, 2002 by Erica

3.0 out of 5 stars This album has issues
Its a pretty cool album, and I'm glad I own it, but its not always the easiest to listen to. The first three songs rock pretty hard, and things are going great, and then all of a... Read more
Published on March 16, 2002 by Roland66x

4.0 out of 5 stars "THE "MENACE" Is Down,Dirty And Raw
To begin with, I have not heard Elastica's debut album and maybe it's just as well. The album starts off with the catchy "Mad Dog God Dam. Read more
Published on November 8, 2001 by Gene

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