The Menace

Elastica

April 3, 2000

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2	Generator	1:50	$1.29
3	How He Wrote Elastic Man	2:02	$1.29
4	Image Change	3:27	$1.29
5	Your Arse My Place [Explicit]	2:16	$1.29
6	Human	3:29	$1.29
7	Nothing Stays the Same	2:44	$1.29
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9	Love Like Ours	2:22	$1.29
10	KB	3:12	$1.29
11	My Sex	4:10	$1.29
12	The Way I Like It	2:39	$1.29
13	Da Da Da	3:52	$1.29

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Elan Bodwick

Better then the debut which many say is a classic

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2022

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Sonically and musically far more adventurous then the post punk by numbers debut .... which don’t get me wrong I think is great but this sophomore long delayed final album was a brave move.. there’s still plenty of frenetic energy but with electronic soundscapes and some different moods this one still sounds relevant over 20 years later ....... can’t for the life understand the negative reviews but to each their own... this one for me remains a favorite of the era!

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David O. Shantz

I missed this recording

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2020

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Elastic a fans- the second, slightly short of the debut, sophomoric effort by this band that evidently took themselves sooooo very seriously that it took years to come up with. It is a testament to all artists, just to get the f*nk on with it.

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Mars

fantastic

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2011

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shipped really fast and was in new shape, as promised. i thought i bought it through amazon but it turned out to be from an indy dealer. very happy.

the music is a little quirkier than the first cd, but very catchy. catchy usually is a bad thing, but in this case, I really enjoyed jamming to it while cooking. It got me moving. Also, the vocals are less raspy and mellow, more upbeat and focused in this cd than in the first.

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Brian Crain aka Cain

it's excellent..

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018

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this album is so underrated it's insane! it's excellent...

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captain jackk

OK 2nd album but rare

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2012

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Rare so rare second album from now now defunct punk band OK look OK and get it OK oki i

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jake s.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016

Thank you!

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2003

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It took me some time to warm up to this album, like Elastica's first. I find myself loving it just as much. I've matured as much as they have in the seven years since the band's last release, so I can appreciate the differences. GO GO MAD DOG

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Lozarithm

Still fine after all this time

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2005

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. Studio perfectionists, after some eventful years of work, they had ditched the lot and re-recorded the bulk of the album in a few weeks, only to see the album flop upon release.

A tour followed in which the band felt they were regularly blown off stage by the support act, Peaches, who was accompanied only by a beat box, so, considering wryly their banks of equipment and teams of support, they split up.

I suppose the market must have changed after the first record, because the music is still fine, highly entertaining in fact. I had been surprised not to come across it in second-hand shops - perhaps those who did buy it had hung on to it. Justine Frischmann and Elastica are much missed and needed at the present time

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Sit up, Shut up and Listen . . . . . . . . . . . again!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2003

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Not Elastica, Elastica I grant you but its better than good.
The five-year interlude between that album and Menace shows.
The spiky guitars are still there, but the departure of Donna Matthews and the arrival of new influences are clear. Elastica are now more mature without losing any of their shut up and listen edge.
Track 1, Mad Dog, the only single from this album alludes to the great stuff of the mid 90’s. Whilst Track 3, Elastica Man, with it’s chant of E.L.A.S.T.I.C.A shoves its self in your face shouting “Remember us!” And just when you think you’ve got this album’s card marked Track 11, My Sex, happens. The quiet beautiful voice of Frischmann in this melancholy song of things lost evokes all of the turmoil between 1995 and 2000.
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.
In short its great.
Elastica, over and out!

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Humpf

Not a patch on their first album

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2014

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But then that's hardly surprising as it was a Britpop classic. That said, it has a few interesting tracks and for less than a fiver it's nice to hear Justine's voice again

4 people found this helpful