ELASTICA 1995 UK DECEPTIVE *COMPLETE* LTD. ED. #4290 MISPRESS MINT
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Nov 3, 2014
Sold Date
Oct 24, 2014
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ELASTICA 1995 UK DECEPTIVE *COMPLETE* LTD. ED. #4290 MISPRESS TOP COPY MINT
ELASTICAElastica
UK DECEPTIVE (BLUFF 014LP) LIMITED EDITION FIRST PRESSING (March 1995)
COMPLETE WITH STICKERED, NUMBERED (#4290) SLEEVE, INNER SLEEVE, 12 PAGE "Elasticatalogue" BOOKLET AND ONE SIDED FLEXI-DISC
THE MISPRESSED SIDE ONE LABEL CREDITS "Waking Up" INSTEAD OF "Line Up"
SUPERB COPY - THE VINYL IS ONCE PLAYED AND THE BOOKLET & 7" FLEXI ARE UNTOUCHED
Elastica's debut album may cop a riff here and there from Wire or the Stranglers, yet no more than Led Zeppelin did with Willie Dixon or the Beach Boys with Chuck Berry.
The key is context. Elastica can make the rigid artiness of Wire into a rocking, sexy single with more hooks than anything on Pink Flag ("Connection") or rework the Stranglers' "No More Heroes" into a more universal anthem that loses none of its punkiness ("Waking Up").
But what makes Elastica such an intoxicating record is not only the way the 15 songs speed by in 40 minutes, but that they're nearly all classics.
The riffs are angular like early Adam & the Ants, the melodies tease like Blondie, and the entire band is as tough as the Clash, yet they never seem anything less than contemporary.
Justine Frischmann's detached sexuality adds an extra edge to her brief, spiky songs -- "Stutter" roars about a boyfriend's impotence, "Car Song" makes sex in a car actually sound sexy, "Line Up" slags off groupies, and "Vaseline" speaks for itself.
Even if the occasional riff sounds like an old wave group, the simple fact is that hardly any new wave band made records this consistently rocking and melodic
Side 1:
Line Up (3:15)
Annie (1:13)
Connection (2:20)
Car Song (2:24)
Smile (1:40)
Hold Me Now (2:32)
S.O.F.T. (3:58)
Indian Song (2:46)
Side 2:
Blue (2:21)
All-Nighter (1:33)
Waking Up (3:15)
2:1 (2:31)
Vaseline (1:22)
Never Here (4:26)
Stutter (2:23)
LABELS: NEAR MINT/MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with one spidery spindle trace on one side, none on the other
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Apart from some harmless hairlines from the card inner sleeve the record looks like-new
VINYL Audio: MINT
Lovely copy - plays beautifully throughout with nothing to fault
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Slight touch of wear to the corners otherwise, crisp, clean and fresh
INNER SLEEVE: MINT
As-new - no seam splits
BOOKLET: MINT
Untouched
FLEXI: MINT
Unplayed
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd Class Recorded Delivery)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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