Almost all of the time it is in control of the record companies. You sign a contact from day one and if you don't do exactly what they tell you they will make sure you don't make it. We will probably never know but most likely they had material ready to go but there were some disagreements. This use to happen all the time with bands in the 80s and 90s before the internet, where there would be massive delays between albums ( it should be one year approx. ) but for sure if it is 2, and if it's 3 or more years every one doesn't care about you anymore.
What an awesome surprise. I'm 47 years old, discovered Elastica in 1996. I've never heard this until today. Bittersweet that I can never hear this again for the first time.
Love this band SO HARD. Played them incessantly in the 90s....and beyond! I don't think they got nearly the recognition they should have, as a grrrl group. Great stuff. Not a stinker on that whole album!
@@RealKevM what are you talking about mate?. The menace was an incredible album of theirs!. It consisted of underappreciated tracks like "Mad dog", "Love like ours" and "Miami nice". Maybe you should check those out yeah?.
@@cynicallydepressed1 it's one of those albums where only a small handful of songs could quickly be taken out of contention for 'best song'.. Even now I'd have to say I have a favourite 3 or 4 not a fave 1. This album was a large part of my '96 soundtrack...
I'm not sure where you are now, or where you were here in the States at the time, but as someone born and raised in what was still somewhat thought of is the remote, far-flung outpost of the Pacific Northwest, I certainly knew of them via (the formerly great) KNDD-FM out of Seattle, that played "Connection" quite often. I not only bought their album as soon as it was available locally, but also purchased a number of their UK import CD singles from the local Borders (RIP), all of which I still have nearly 30 years later. I played the heck out of all of them during my Uni years in Bellingham WA, and may have been one and the few there that dug them so intensely. I also bought their delayed follow-up album when it was finally released, and was saddened that it all ended far too soon.
This is so clean and spare and brilliant, and the lyric is just so biting. Why they didn't have huge success I'll never understand. This is as good as it gets.
The 1990’s era of “Britpop” stood on the shoulders of the accomplishments of the music videos which preceded them on UK “Top of the Pops”, MTV in the USA, etc. I also agree about Blur. It is forgotten that MOST groups DO NOT hold fame like the Rolling Stones, ABBA, and VERY few others. By the way, I am honored to have received a comment from gypsyspacemuffin0 whose name is more fantastic than anything I could imagine! Thank you.
@@pg6917 wow, what a negative comment.. My nanna used to say, 'if you can't say something nice, STFU' (I paraphrase, ofc).. Pretty apparent why so many kids are badly affected by social media, with such encouraging and supportive comments being casually tossed around...
Their debut album was awesome, and perfect, every single track of it. Always hated this band imploded, after only 2 albums. Always have wondered what could've been, had things worked out differently. Man, the '90s were a great time, and a great time for bands, music, and killer albums. Not just a good song, here and there, which is the norm nowadays, but complete albums actually being good, and worth your money to purchase them. Never have been happier, and more grateful, to have spent my teen years during the '90s, and my childhood during the '80s, than I have been during these last 4 years.
[Verse 1] Drivel head wears her glad rags She's got her keys, money and fags I know that her mind is made up To get rocked [Verse 2] Drivel head needs a new man As only a drivel head can He's a hormonal nightmare So beware [Chorus] Another victim of line up in line, line up in line is all I remember Oh, how the favour has changed, you could've been kinder Yes, yes, line up in line, line up in line, is all I remember Oh, how their favours change, you could have been mine [Verse 3] Drivel head knows all the stars Loves to suck their shining guitars They've all been right up her stairs Do you care? No [Verse 4] Drivel head knows all the bands Knows them like the back of her hands You can't see the wood for the trees On your knees [Chorus] Another victim of line up in line, line up in line is all I remember Oh, how the favour has changed, you could have been kinder Yes, yes, line up in line, line up in line is all I remember Oh, how the favour has changed, you could have been mine
WoW ... to think Suede could have been more like this !! I can't even remember any of their songs. Still have 8 songs from this album on my playlist now, all these years later lol
Until I forgot all about this band when I heard "Connection" somewhere and was like what ? I remember that ... then this morning it took a few minutes to find the band as all I had was a beat in my head but eventually it triggered me remembering ... Elastica !!!!! What a great album
I am the fly the main lyrics just say Ì am the fly Ì am the fly I am the fly in the ointment. Repeatedly many times. Same phrase and tone.. Over and over. Whereas the chorus here has a different melody and the chorus is much longer and more complex. There ar least 4 long sentences. How can you say they are the same. It's not factual
The band became subject to controversy when several bands sued them for plagiarism. Specifically, the post-punk band Wire (whom Elastica counted as one of their main influences) claimed that many of the band's melodies were taken from Wire compositions, as well as by The Stranglers. Notably, Wire's "I Am the Fly" has a chorus similar to Elastica's "Line Up" and the intro synthesizer part in Elastica's "Connection" (later also repeated on guitar) is lifted from the guitar riff in Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba" and transposed a semitone, and The Stranglers also passed comment that Elastica's "Waking Up" bore a marked resemblance to their song "No More Heroes". The disputes were resolved by out-of-court settlements.
I just got into them this last may and tbh if had a time machine I use it to go back to the 90s and witness the rise/hype of said bands performing at thier peak
D' you know, you never know. I thought the same about Lush, that it was game over a long time ago since Chris died, but when they did reunite, albeit briefly in 2016 (using Elastica's drummer BTW, Justin Welch) I was at the same time over the moon, and also very sad because the timing was wrong and I never made it to any of the gigs they did, but you really never know, many bands do tend to reunite these days...
@@lenardmasamoc6167 that was a reunion of the friends meeting up again, not the band reuniting to play again. I imagine they all get on quite well now, but Justine has changed so much since then, has found peace and clarity, and is no longer interested in making music (unfortunately).
Athough this song was (relatively,) massively popular, it is, oddly, the song that people will remember Elastica by because it is such a blatant lift from Wire ( I am the Fly). Of course they were abviously big fans of Wire from the beginning, and of course they were original artists in their own right, and of course it isn't fair. But, as the philosophers say, tha's life.
There's nothing wrong with "plagarising" music. For instance, the breeders(cannonball) took it from fugazi(waiting room). Killing joke(eighties) stole it from the damned(life goes on). Besides,it's not who does it first that counts it's about who does it better.
I played this CD nonstop in 1995. What a great year. What a great fucking decade, in fact.
More like fly in the ointment of disappointment
Steven Coil if that’s what you think of the nineties......god knows how disappointed you must be with today.
couldnt agree more
LOL.
@@puckinhell622
@@puckinhell622 But did you get what @stevencoil402 was referencing or why it was relevant? :-)
One of the best albums from the britpop era. Utterly brilliant. They just waited waaaaay to long to follow it up.
Absolutely!! Longpigs also suffered from that a little.
Almost all of the time it is in control of the record companies. You sign a contact from day one and if you don't do exactly what they tell you they will make sure you don't make it. We will probably never know but most likely they had material ready to go but there were some disagreements. This use to happen all the time with bands in the 80s and 90s before the internet, where there would be massive delays between albums ( it should be one year approx. ) but for sure if it is 2, and if it's 3 or more years every one doesn't care about you anymore.
Lost their momentum and the music scene/fickle music press had moved on to other next big things.
My 90s playlist ELASTICA❤
Quite simply one of THE great Britpop songs.... Musical perfection.
Annie Holland is such an underrated bass player. Sooooo moody!
What an awesome surprise. I'm 47 years old, discovered Elastica in 1996. I've never heard this until today. Bittersweet that I can never hear this again for the first time.
That bassline!
Love this band SO HARD. Played them incessantly in the 90s....and beyond! I don't think they got nearly the recognition they should have, as a grrrl group. Great stuff. Not a stinker on that whole album!
Fastest selling debut album for 10 years in England says they got the recognition they deserved.
Masterpiece incredible
I desperately want to go back to the 90s and my youth.
Everything was just soo easy and peaceful
Oh yes was fucking great times no cctv no shitty Facebook .the fat police sergeant trying chase use was always fun
me too
Best decade
Unlucky
It's one of most underrated UK elastica's single( shame it's even only has viewers under a million
I miss the days when music videos were actually creative and interesting
Omg that's a badass bassline
Massively underrated group
Totally agree wiv yers, awesome.
Although excellent music is underrated, everyone always says it sound familiar... like hits. Salutes.
I don't know mate, their debut album was class but everything else wasn't that good
@@RealKevM what are you talking about mate?. The menace was an incredible album of theirs!. It consisted of underappreciated tracks like "Mad dog", "Love like ours" and "Miami nice". Maybe you should check those out yeah?.
@@IncredulousMisanthrope maybe I should
Still sounds savage A.F 24 years on! To be played no quieter than a decibel level worthy of receiving an ASBO, it really would be worth it!
Elastica and Pulp, the cream of the Britpop crop. Great shame this lot couldn't keep their act together.
Ahhhh, the 90's.
This cannot be any more British and 90s!. Looks like something you’d do nowadays in order to portrait the 90s 😂. Loving this.
Yeahhh this was my 90’s group! Good times 🙃
Such an Underrated song here in America! I only heard about their song, Connection, until I stumbled upon this! Elastica is So Underrated!
Hope you've heard 'Stutter', their best song in my mind...
@@cynicallydepressed1 it's one of those albums where only a small handful of songs could quickly be taken out of contention for 'best song'.. Even now I'd have to say I have a favourite 3 or 4 not a fave 1. This album was a large part of my '96 soundtrack...
@@cynicallydepressed1 i’d say Blue is their best
I'm not sure where you are now, or where you were here in the States at the time, but as someone born and raised in what was still somewhat thought of is the remote, far-flung outpost of the Pacific Northwest, I certainly knew of them via (the formerly great) KNDD-FM out of Seattle, that played "Connection" quite often. I not only bought their album as soon as it was available locally, but also purchased a number of their UK import CD singles from the local Borders (RIP), all of which I still have nearly 30 years later. I played the heck out of all of them during my Uni years in Bellingham WA, and may have been one and the few there that dug them so intensely. I also bought their delayed follow-up album when it was finally released, and was saddened that it all ended far too soon.
This is so clean and spare and brilliant, and the lyric is just so biting. Why they didn't have huge success I'll never understand. This is as good as it gets.
They did have huge success. This was my jam and I was a high schooler living in a small town on Spain.
The 1990’s era of “Britpop” stood on the shoulders of the accomplishments of the music videos which preceded them on UK “Top of the Pops”, MTV in the USA, etc. I also agree about Blur. It is forgotten that MOST groups DO NOT hold fame like the Rolling Stones, ABBA, and VERY few others. By the way, I am honored to have received a comment from gypsyspacemuffin0 whose name is more fantastic than anything I could imagine! Thank you.
Elastica never received the recognition their music deserved. Well done.
They were a brilliant band ...
I loved this song. I danced to this all through 95 in high scholl. Still a kick ass song now that I'm 45 ❤❤❤
I think Justine Frischman may have been the coolest woman in music, if not on earth
Memories of cheap cider and student house parties.... ah, the mid 90s.
Un minuto de silencio para quienes aún no encuentran ésta canción.
0:29 Donna looks spaced out in the galaxy
I am the fly, I am the fly, fly in the ointment...
which song do you enjoy more?
@@startervisions I Am The Fly. It's so obvious...
@@mookie2637 and three girl rhumba
@@startervisions I like Wire, but this is a better version of that particular rif..
This was on an old school Top of the Pops on BBC4 a few weeks back - and is well good.
BEST BAND.
Underrated Britpop band!
Big Day Out Melbourne Jan 1996 - Great show!
Yeah, lol. We were in the same crowd as strangers.
my favorites band
The cute one is out of the music bizz and works helping the elderley. Cute and a heart.
iam 14 nd i lovee Elastica..i started listining to them when my dad showed me this song..and i have to admit they are pretty kick ass:D
Wow youre now 23 or probably dead
@@pg6917 wow, what a negative comment.. My nanna used to say, 'if you can't say something nice, STFU' (I paraphrase, ofc).. Pretty apparent why so many kids are badly affected by social media, with such encouraging and supportive comments being casually tossed around...
Do you still think they kick ass?
Im from the 2000s but man 90s is so raw and not giving a fuck wish I was born earlier
killer riff right there
Their debut album was awesome, and perfect, every single track of it. Always hated this band imploded, after only 2 albums. Always have wondered what could've been, had things worked out differently. Man, the '90s were a great time, and a great time for bands, music, and killer albums. Not just a good song, here and there, which is the norm nowadays, but complete albums actually being good, and worth your money to purchase them. Never have been happier, and more grateful, to have spent my teen years during the '90s, and my childhood during the '80s, than I have been during these last 4 years.
For me, this is the best song of Elastica. Its sooo fucking cool.
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The Bowie&Fripp is strong with this one.
[Verse 1]
Drivel head wears her glad rags
She's got her keys, money and fags
I know that her mind is made up
To get rocked
[Verse 2]
Drivel head needs a new man
As only a drivel head can
He's a hormonal nightmare
So beware
[Chorus]
Another victim of line up in line, line up in line is all I remember
Oh, how the favour has changed, you could've been kinder
Yes, yes, line up in line, line up in line, is all I remember
Oh, how their favours change, you could have been mine
[Verse 3]
Drivel head knows all the stars
Loves to suck their shining guitars
They've all been right up her stairs
Do you care? No
[Verse 4]
Drivel head knows all the bands
Knows them like the back of her hands
You can't see the wood for the trees
On your knees
[Chorus]
Another victim of line up in line, line up in line is all I remember
Oh, how the favour has changed, you could have been kinder
Yes, yes, line up in line, line up in line is all I remember
Oh, how the favour has changed, you could have been mine
Too bad that Justine doesn't sing anymore, but she makes wonderful artwork so I'm happy for her.
Yeah that's what I've heard she for nowadays but ayye she's happy living a peaceful private life in San Francisco
the best song on the Mallrats soundtrack!
Was featured on the "Mallrats" soundtrack, first time ever hearing them at that point.
And then their tues to Blur made me really pay attention
Classic rock songs always remind me what an awesome age that I used to have..
this song is pretty badass.
Best of the Britpop. No doubt.
Bass is great on this track! BaseLINE is great on LINE up!!
wonder what genre of music this would be classified? Punk, heavy electric guitar, deadpan vocals ..... interesting. love it and dont know why LOL
No wonder we didn't want to listen to techno back then... britpop still rocks.
WoW ... to think Suede could have been more like this !! I can't even remember any of their songs.
Still have 8 songs from this album on my playlist now, all these years later lol
Super cool immortality….
I still remember the concert at Arena Auditorium (Valencia) in December '95
1:58 DAMON
Thank you ! I love this band :D
Cool band
Love in the nineties... is paranoid...
Elastica❤😉😘
such a classic, love you
this is my favourite song from elastica classic
"That kid...is BACK ON THE ESCALATOR AGAIN!"
I'm in love
Until I forgot all about this band when I heard "Connection" somewhere and was like what ? I remember that ...
then this morning it took a few minutes to find the band as all I had was a beat in my head but eventually it triggered me remembering ... Elastica !!!!!
What a great album
Complete nick from Wire I am the fly
I am the fly the main lyrics just say Ì am the fly Ì am the fly I am the fly in the ointment. Repeatedly many times. Same phrase and tone.. Over and over. Whereas the chorus here has a different melody and the chorus is much longer and more complex. There ar least 4 long sentences. How can you say they are the same. It's not factual
The band became subject to controversy when several bands sued them for plagiarism. Specifically, the post-punk band Wire (whom Elastica counted as one of their main influences) claimed that many of the band's melodies were taken from Wire compositions, as well as by The Stranglers. Notably, Wire's "I Am the Fly" has a chorus similar to Elastica's "Line Up" and the intro synthesizer part in Elastica's "Connection" (later also repeated on guitar) is lifted from the guitar riff in Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba" and transposed a semitone, and The Stranglers also passed comment that Elastica's "Waking Up" bore a marked resemblance to their song "No More Heroes". The disputes were resolved by out-of-court settlements.
Maybe but bloody good indie rock Riff here. I think that is there composite?
@@goldenultra thanks to Colin Newman of WIRE
Yea
So f good, so many memories sigh
bloody tune
GREAT LIVE BAND FROM THE LAST GREAT BRITISH MUSIC MOVEMENT TO MATTER. NOW I'M AFRAID, MUSIC IS DEAD.
Pure non-jewished yet Avalon.
Śliczności. Lubię to. Bardzo.
I had this cd back in the day. lol
What a band
2020 anyone?
yep!
No thanks. 2021 doesn't look much better.
2024 for me
i love it super 👍👍👍👍😜
Not even 1 million views yet?
who is here in 2023 listening to this and thinking about time travel
this is on fire!!
I just got into them this last may and tbh if had a time machine I use it to go back to the 90s and witness the rise/hype of said bands performing at thier peak
Love this music video
They were so cool even more than their music
Excellent morceau
fucking love the bassline
Soooo *good !!!!* ....
Annie Holland was my favourite 👍
I've just noticed the verse sounds identical to Blur - Girls and Boys
Yep, that's what i can hear as well. Good ear!
It's terrible the way other bands kept stealing Elastica songs before Elastica wrote them.
And the chorus is Wire - I Am the Fly
Actually it sounds like nothing like it. That really is a stretch, in every way What are you, some kind of obsessed Blur fan?.
It absolutely does. It's the only reason I even tried to find this song recently.
reminds me of Wire's I am the fly.
O wait, Elastica were sued over that.
Actually they were sued over that other song that ripped off Three Girl Rhumba, iirc.
They were also sued by the Stranglers which they settled with a payment.
Sorry for Justine but Elastica where shameless plagiarists, maybe 3 o 4 songs are original, all the others are copied
They were not sued BY the Stranglers, read more carefully !
@@ryckybo66 Perhaps, but what they did with it was great.
my first love x
Que buen rollo transmitían estas chicas!!!
10 de 10
They broke up in 2001 . . . will never reunite. Sad sad sad.
i saw a picture in Facebook
3 members excluding Justine and it's says reunion.
sorry for my bad English 😊🙏
even now...the decade of reunions...
D' you know, you never know. I thought the same about Lush, that it was game over a long time ago since Chris died, but when they did reunite, albeit briefly in 2016 (using Elastica's drummer BTW, Justin Welch) I was at the same time over the moon, and also very sad because the timing was wrong and I never made it to any of the gigs they did, but you really never know, many bands do tend to reunite these days...
@@lenardmasamoc6167 that was a reunion of the friends meeting up again, not the band reuniting to play again. I imagine they all get on quite well now, but Justine has changed so much since then, has found peace and clarity, and is no longer interested in making music (unfortunately).
Athough this song was (relatively,) massively popular, it is, oddly, the song that people will remember Elastica by because it is such a blatant lift from Wire ( I am the Fly). Of course they were abviously big fans of Wire from the beginning, and of course they were original artists in their own right, and of course it isn't fair. But, as the philosophers say, tha's life.
There's nothing wrong with "plagarising" music. For instance, the breeders(cannonball) took it from fugazi(waiting room). Killing joke(eighties) stole it from the damned(life goes on). Besides,it's not who does it first that counts it's about who does it better.
Sure if you prefer the original then it's on you but plagarising is something that happens all the time in music.
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Good
Favorite song!
¡¡uuuaaa aa uuuaaaa!!! great
1:58 hello damon
Damon Albarn presence is is there during the whole tune.
ahww, Damon!
Hard 2 bee live eye never saw this video. Nice.
Best debut album, ever? Probably.
After definetely maybe, modern life is rubbish and pablo honey i think so..