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~ Elastica
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (3 April 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Deceptive
  • ASIN: B00004S780
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 26,887 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  1. Mad Dog God Dam 3:16£0.79
Listen  2. Generator 1:50£0.79
Listen  3. How He Wrote Elastica Man 2:01£0.79
Listen  4. Image Change 3:25£0.79
Listen  5. Your Arse My Place 2:16£0.79
Listen  6. Human 3:29£0.79
Listen  7. Nothing Stays The Same 2:44£0.79
Listen  8. Miami Nice 3:21£0.79
Listen  9. Love Like Ours 2:22£0.79
Listen10. KB 3:12£0.79
Listen11. My Sex 4:09£0.79
Listen12. The Way I Like It 2:39£0.79
Listen13. Da Da Da 3:52£0.79

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Amazon.co.uk Review

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 hyper-energetic numbers as "MadDog God Dam" 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 re-treading it, they just dig deeper and unearth more treasures. --Robert Burrow

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear oh dear, 6 Feb 2001
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As a big fan of the first Elastica album, I waited with baited breath for the second. After hearing the release "Mad Dog" I thought "Wahaay, its another cracking album". Unfortunately the rest of the album can't live up to the standards we have come to expect from Elastica.

The result is an album with a couple of good tracks, but mainly filled with simple indie-pop tracks that make you feel you could have done a better job of them yourself.

And it all ends with a cover of the classic 80's "Da da da" originally by "Trio". I'll let you decide for yourself what to make of that.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fine'n'Dandy, 13 April 2005
By Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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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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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Welcome back Justine and co., 9 April 2000
By R. LUFF (Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
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Well, 5 years since the debut, this is the perfect 2nd album. More balls(sic), some nifty keyboard work and a welcome return of Annie on bass. We've missed you Justine and co. and by gum, are we glad your back. It's put my faith back in music - call it indie or whatever you like but it's a welcome distraction from the BLAND pop charts of today. Stand out tracks : How We Wrote Elastica Man (gimme me an E..E! gimme and L...L!, etc) Miami Nice, Your Arse My Place (complete with Justine's trademark "1-2-3!") and my fave My Sex. 45 minutes of pure brilliance. Buy it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sit up, Shut up and Listen . . . . . . . . . . . again!
Not Elastica, Elastica I grant you but its better than good.
The five-year interlude between that album and Menace shows. Read more
Published on 22 April 2003 by Dylunydd

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous.
I admit that ''The Menace'' is very mix-and-match, what with the electronic punk of ''Generator'', ''Your Arse My Place'' and ''How He Wrote... Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2002 by LM Woodhouse

5.0 out of 5 stars Elastica = Pure Genius
The Menace is an almost cancerous (grows on you-sorry for the bad humour lol) remedy for the mini-moshery, heavy metal rubbish we have haunting the brain dead "mosher"'s... Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2001 by darkwolflupa@hotmail.com (i h...

3.0 out of 5 stars Five years could have been spend better
Five years after their astonishing debut album this one arrives. The first album really blow me off my feet. This one is really disappointing compared to that one. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2000

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the wait
I loved this first album, but its 2000 now not 1995. There are a couple of good tracks, but ultimately it's a big disappointment.
Published on 2 Sep 2000

3.0 out of 5 stars welcome back
The second coming of the pop group I still lovin' (after so many silence years I keep listening to the their great debut album) rebirth with a new noisy/pop sound (sonic... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2000

3.0 out of 5 stars Not great. . . but still sets the pulse racing
About half the tracks on this album are good, (Mad dog, Generator, How he wrote Elastica Man, Nothing Stays the Same, A love like Ours, Da da da). Read more
Published on 19 April 2000

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