Elastica-Elastica (1995)


 

Artist: Elastica

Title: Elastica

Label: DGC

Format: CD

Cat #: DGCD 24728

Year of Release: 1995

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ 

Sell Date: 3/9/25

Sell Price: $3.11

Discogs Last Sold: 3/99/25 VG+/VG+ $5.51

Low: $0.99

Median: $2.76

Average: $3.12

High: $11.36

Current low price: $1.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 50

Have/Want: 1033/74

Where Sold: Columbia, SC

Time it took to sell: 14 years

Where and When Bought: $3 cd bin late 90's NYC

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+

Sad To See It Go: No

Elastica were one of those bands revered by the British press and ultimately the US one that I never quite thought were all that great.  The big comparison was Wire, but the songs I heard didn't really make me think of them.  I will say the opening track "Line Up" sounds like "I Am The Fly," so I guess that is where that came from.

In 1995 I thought the music was a little sterile for my liking.  It wasn't BAD per se, just nothing that I found to be particularly amazing.  The track that I remembered most was one of the 6 videos befitting of the fastest selling album to date in the UK, "Stutter."  The rest is blandly likeable bar chord driven rock. The ones I like most after a few spins are "All-Nighter" and "Waking Up."  Not punk enough for punk and so forth.  This peaked at #66 in the US presumably on press alone and was a Gold record here, in Canada and of course the UK.  I realized today that there were two early Suede members: leader Justine Frischmann and drummer Justin Welch.

Frischmann quit music to focus on painting.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bob Dylan-Masterpieces (1978)

Image
  Artist:  Bob Dylan Title: Masterpieces Label: Columbia Format: 3xCD Catalog Number: 462448 9 Year of Release: 1978 Country and Year  of Edition: Australia 1991 (sticker has 30 year anniversary) Sell Price: $26.69 Sell Date: 4/19/26 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 2/27/26 NM/NM $16.22 Low: $7.19 Median: $20.00 Average: $26.50 High: $64.59 Current  low price:  $7.17 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 29 Have/Want: 539/41 Where Sold: Middlebury, VT Time It Took  To Sell:  2 years  Where and When  Bought: Facebook marketplace lot Gwiz-gau Grade:  A Sad To See  It Go: No Of the many Bob Dylan compilations, I never had Masterpieces until fairly recently in a lot purchase.  It was always in the store bin at a triple CD import price when my fingers would flip over it in the early 90's Dylan section.  In that time period it meant over $50 easy whether it was from Australia, New Zealand or Japan where is was...
Read more

Blur-13 (1999)

Image
  Artist: Blur Title: 13 Label: Food/Virgin Format: CD Cat #: 7243 4 99129 2 2 Year of Release: 1999 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+  Sell Date: 3/9/25 Sell Price: $2.84 Discogs Last Sold: 2/19/25 NM/NM $5.50 Low: $0.49 Median: $3.12 Average: $3.61 High: $8.68 Current low price: $2.83 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 34 Have/Want: 1960/168 Where Sold: Columbia, SC Time it took to sell: 14 years Where and When Bought: internet mail order circa time of release used guessing CD Warehouse Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Another "critics" record I bought at the end of the year in 1999 that I maybe listened to once, dropped it into the CD carousel and let it pop up on random shuffle for most of 2000.  This 13 track album called 13 is the 6th full length Blur album and I would say the second one I bought after their eponymously titled 5th album. I'm going to say this one is quality start to finish.  My favorite cut is th...
Read more

Big Black-The Incredibly Corporate Whorish Big Black Interview Album (1987)

Image
  Artist: Big Black Title: The Incredibly Corporate Whorish Big Black Interview Album Side One     Side Two Label: Touch 'n' Go Format: LP Cat #:  TG-LP-INT-1 Year of Release: 1987 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1987 Promo only Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 7/18/25 Sell Price: $15.57 Discogs Last Sold: 5/17/25 NM/NM $23.26   Low: $14.95 NM/NM 1/14/20 Median: $25.00 Average: $26.78 High: $40.00 NM/NM like new Current low price: $17.44 VG+/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 128/147 Where: Chicago, IL Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: promo Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No One of those collection crown jewels that somehow dropped to 15 bucks over the years.  I'm sure I opened up at 40 many years ago, but a dreaded 2" seam split in my notes made other people that actually wanted the record opt for "NM/NM" copies in the 25-40 range. This was a promo that came before the "He's A Whore" si...
Read more