 Elastica (1995) [ larger cover art ] |
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Musicbrainz DBKeeping a brave face
In circumstances is impossible
Cannot describe
So many
Decisions
It's impossible
To know which is
The proper order
The best position
To be in
take advantage
or so it seems
the way it goes
Sandman comes (it's tragic)
Two to one (laid down on your side)
In the dark (Too easy)
Dark reflections (you know that you know)
In my head (You're soaking wet)
In my bed (You talk too much)
Again (It's not necessary)
Sandman goes (Before the ice melts)
Two in tow (I just want to say)
Wet and dumb (this packet's yours)
Three's the number (Don't ask for more)
Coming down (Cos somewhere along the line)
Coming down again (I've forgotten already)
| Spiderwoman (Lake Chelan, North Central Washington) | Posted: Apr 03, 2013 - 08:53 The two Trainspotting CDs helped broaden my musical tastes. This song is a case-in-point. |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Oct 28, 2012 - 12:29 fredriley wrote: Can we be nostalgic for the 90s already? It was only a decade or so ago, barely a historical heartbeat. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be... ;-) that made me laugh...Oh, Time! you bitter master, you arrow of life. How I need and hate you for looking at others...skipping past me. |
| sajitjacob (Christchurch NZ) | Posted: May 23, 2012 - 20:47 Elastica! yay! gotta love RP. |
| malvey254 | Posted: Nov 15, 2011 - 16:34 gandalfbmg wrote: I listened to this album over and over and over and over and over and over and over when I was younger... Ah, nostalgia... Me too - I wore this disc out in college. I bet we could get "Never There" or "Waking Up" on RP. |
| gandalfbmg (3 mi from Paradise (Missouri)) | Posted: May 10, 2011 - 10:02 fredriley wrote: Can we be nostalgic for the 90s already? It was only a decade or so ago, barely a historical heartbeat. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be... ;-) Well I was a teen in the 90's and now I'm in my 30's and feeling nostalgic... Really it's no different than people in the 70's being nostalgic for the late 50/early 60's (Happy Days/American Grafiti anyone)... |
| peter_james_bond (West Of The Burg) | Posted: May 10, 2011 - 09:58 fredriley wrote: Can we be nostalgic for the 90s already? It was only a decade or so ago, barely a historical heartbeat. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be... ;-)  |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: May 10, 2011 - 09:56 Phlegmaticman wrote: Bring on 90s nostalgia! It will be the best nostalgia ever. Can we be nostalgic for the 90s already? It was only a decade or so ago, barely a historical heartbeat. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be... ;-) |
| gandalfbmg (3 mi from Paradise (Missouri)) | Posted: May 10, 2011 - 09:56 I listened to this album over and over and over and over and over and over and over when I was younger... Ah, nostalgia... |
| kjf06 | Posted: Jun 27, 2010 - 20:04 Such a great record. Not a best cut by far. |
| Dave_Mack (Five bus, Jive bus!) | Posted: Jan 20, 2010 - 16:24 Nuance wrote: There are better elastica songs... can we get some more? I tried that with "Connection" and "Stutter", but got sorried. |
| Theodoransky (Mexico) | Posted: Sep 16, 2009 - 20:06 Phlegmaticman wrote: Bring on 90s nostalgia! It will be the best nostalgia ever. yeah, me too! |
| df1489 | Posted: Aug 16, 2009 - 08:06
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| Stefen (West Hollywood, CA) | Posted: Jul 15, 2009 - 17:11 I somehow missed this band. They're pretty good. |
| Aegean (Earth) | Posted: Feb 07, 2009 - 10:56 It was once said of these guys: "They belt out a good tune, and don't take up much of your time doing it!"  |
| smdeeg (SillyCone Valley) | Posted: Nov 04, 2008 - 16:36 milehighYinzer wrote: Trainspotting flashback Exactly! |
| TheCaseAce (Manchester, UK) | Posted: Oct 04, 2008 - 02:33 Wow... used to love this song and album. Still do. Great, obscure album track! Hearing songs like this is the reason I love RP.  |
| Phlegmaticman (270 miles south of Paradise, CA) | Posted: Jul 01, 2008 - 08:20 Bring on 90s nostalgia! It will be the best nostalgia ever. |
| UltraNurd (Boston, MA) | Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 09:48 I like the riff, and then they start singing... |
| underarmor (Austin) | Posted: Oct 28, 2007 - 07:23 Copperwood wrote: Boring!!! it makes me want to put my finger through my eye into my brain and swirl it around till i'm retarded... Sorry, did I go to far?
No. Push the finger in further.  |
| OldFrenchie (Frozen wastes of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada) | Posted: Aug 26, 2007 - 09:09 Not many songs make me want to shout "you kids turn off that infernal racket!!!" but this is one of them. |
| coloradojohn (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe) | Posted: Apr 06, 2007 - 19:39 I like it; kinda Ditty-Boppish but with an angry grundgy angsty edge to it... Hard to top NY's Out on the Weekend, but nice -- OH and is that FF coming in? Yeehah! Laters, y 'all! |
| Copperwood (los Angeles) | Posted: Mar 22, 2007 - 05:22 Boring!!! it makes me want to put my finger through my eye into my brain and swirl it around till i'm retarded... Sorry, did I go to far? |
| Geecheeboy (under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | Posted: Mar 06, 2007 - 13:21 sutcliff wrote: "One of the great things about being in a band with other girls is you just don't come across the male ego trips." - Justine Right. You come across the Female ego trips. |
| sutcliff (Saint Louis) | Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 21:58 "One of the great things about being in a band with other girls is you just don't come across the male ego trips." - Justine |
| timc (Waterloo, ON (2512 miles/4043 km from Paradise, CA)) | Posted: Jan 05, 2007 - 12:55 YES! |
| milehighYinzer (Denver) | Posted: Jan 05, 2007 - 12:53 Trainspotting flashback |
| lathyris (Austin, TX) | Posted: Dec 07, 2006 - 11:05 Man, that really was cool. Short, simple, neat. |
| redeyespy (Sunny, FL) | Posted: Apr 23, 2006 - 13:10 I remember cruising around Buckhead in Atlanta to this back in '95. "Let's go to the Cue Room!" "No, Nava!" "No, Lulu's Bait Shack!" |
| tinkerbelly (rural nova scotia) | Posted: Mar 10, 2006 - 12:22 th3boon wrote: did gorillaz sample part of this song for their track 'kids with guns' on the demon days album?
when this started playing, i thought it was a remix of "kids with guns" slowed down. interesting that it's the same riff in there. i don't think it's a sample, per se. more like the sort of situation that existed with the stones' spec-crap-ular whiny ballad "anybody seen my baby" and k.d. lang's equally whiny "constant craving". except in this case both songs are great. |
| Nuance (Winnipeg) | Posted: Dec 12, 2005 - 13:34 There are better elastica songs... can we get some more? |
| timc | Posted: Sep 30, 2005 - 08:18 I love this album. Rock on. |
| th3boon (chicago) | Posted: Sep 15, 2005 - 14:26 did gorillaz sample part of this song for their track 'kids with guns' on the demon days album? |
| jeremydgreat (Riverside, CA) | Posted: Aug 02, 2005 - 00:37 punchy |
| warderblu | Posted: Jul 18, 2005 - 05:51 Mugro wrote: Elastica was a one hit wonder, and this was not the one....
They might have been a one hit wonder to the radio community. But they actually were a one album wonder to the alt rock world. This whole album is very very good... |
| Fat_Man_Flo (Whitehorse) | Posted: May 20, 2005 - 11:13 Roto wrote: I had a huuuuge crush on Justine Frischman
 She's like a female Joan Jett  
REALLY? |
| Mugro (Lane Village, Massachusetts) | Posted: May 20, 2005 - 11:11 Elastica was a one hit wonder, and this was not the one.... |
| redeyespy (SoFL) | Posted: Apr 27, 2005 - 19:24 Trustocity wrote: No one's given this a 1 yet? Let me rectify that...
Well, at least you are open about your oafishness. |
| coding_to_music (Beantown) | Posted: Apr 27, 2005 - 19:21 Sorry |
| Filofox | Posted: Apr 13, 2005 - 04:02 Not their best, but a nice blast from the past. |
| Trustocity (Boston, baby) | Posted: Apr 06, 2005 - 13:16 No one's given this a 1 yet? Let me rectify that... |
| rah | Posted: Apr 06, 2005 - 13:12 reminds me of that Fastball song that was wallpapered all over the radio a bunch of summers ago... |
| zataomm7 (MI) | Posted: Mar 29, 2005 - 11:09 This song reminds me trainspotting, but I can't remember where in the film it's played... |
| Roverfish (Tucson, AZ - Thanks for visiting, please drive through!) | Posted: Mar 22, 2005 - 19:32 Roto wrote: I had a huuuuge crush on Justine Frischman
Oh yeah! I remember her from Family Ties...oh. Nevermind. Elastica is consistent in one way...ear-pleasing tunes. Quite likeable. |
| B-dub (Durham, NC) | Posted: Nov 16, 2004 - 15:42 Tom Tom Club?  |
| bobringer (Wayne, NJ) | Posted: Oct 11, 2004 - 09:07 I like Joan Jett and all... but I'm not so sure about that. 
lily34 wrote: erm, isn't joan jett a female? |
| lily34 (erie, pa) | Posted: Sep 26, 2004 - 18:31 Roto wrote: I had a huuuuge crush on Justine Frischman
She's like a female Joan Jett erm, isn't joan jett a female? |
| mll | Posted: Sep 03, 2004 - 23:56 
Good rememberances of movie Trainspotting, too... (remember ? When Ewan McGregor was still an earthling ;)) |
| eco (Montreal) | Posted: Sep 03, 2004 - 23:56 vocal range of a potato |
| Waltenstein | Posted: Jun 25, 2004 - 13:35 I love Elastica. :) |
| Nuance (Winnipeg) | Posted: Jun 25, 2004 - 13:33 There followup album Menace is good too. Different but not too much. still energetic and punky. Considering their absence & I believe a small heroin problem, the band still rocks. Look forward to more. |
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