Artist......: Elastica
Album.......: The Radio One Sessions
Source......: CD
Label.......: Strange Fruit
Genre.......: Rock
Tracks......: 21
Bitrate.....: 940 kbps avg
Playtime....: 00:52:43 (373.MB)
Rls date....: 2021-06-22
Store date..: 2001-11-02
Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
Url.........: http://www.justinefrischmann.net/
01 Annie (John Peel 12/8/93) 1:15
02 Spastica (John Peel 12/8/93) 2:34
03 Line Up (John Peel 12/8/93) 3:12
04 Vaseline (John Peel 12/8/93) 1:20
05 Brighton Rock (John Peel 12/8/93) 1:56
06 In The City (Evening Session 16/3/94) 1:31
07 Waking Up (Evening Session 16/3/94) 3:17
08 Four Wheeling (John Peel 14/6/94) 2:26
09 Hold Me Now (John Peel 14/6/94) 2:26
10 Ba Ba Ba (John Peel 14/6/94) 2:33
11 All For Gloria (John Peel 6/12/94) 3:02
12 I Wanna Be A King Of Orient Aah (John Peel 6/12/94) 2:05
13 Rock 'N' Roll (Mark Radcliffe 28/3/95) 2:14
14 2:1 (Mark Radcliffe 28/3/95) 2:29
15 I Want You (Evening Session 10/7/96) 4:05
16 Only Human (Evening Session 10/7/96) 3:24
17 A Love Like Ours (Evening Session 10/7/96) 2:27
18 KB (John Peel 22/9/99) 3:13
19 Da Da Da (John Peel 22/9/99) 3:41
20 Generator (John Peel 22/9/99) 1:47
21 Your Arse My Place (John Peel 22/9/99) 1:46
Given the shockingly anticlimactic second and third acts of Elastica's
career, it's easy to forget why they were considered one of the greatest,
most exciting acts of the mid-'90s -- not just one of the leading lights of
Britpop, but one of the few to be acclaimed critically in the States (who,
after the first Suede album, pretty much ignored Britpop until 1996, after
it had peaked). Their eponymous debut offers a reminder why they were so
highly regarded, but to hear what they really sounded like in the thick of
things, to bring the era back to life in vivid color, The Radio One
Sessions is needed. This is crackling, kinetic rock & roll, created with
sharp angles, piercing hooks, thundering backbeats, slyly jaded debauchery,
and overwhelming, unbearably hot sexuality. All this hangs stronger here,
amid the songs that never made it past B-sides, or even those that didn't
make it that far, not just because the band is looser, rocking harder, but
because this plays to the group's strengths. There are no misguided "Indian
Song"s, no soul-baring tunes like "Never Here," just tightly wound,
thrilling alive art punk-pop, rarely longer than two minutes and 30
seconds. Listening to their first five sessions -- tracks one through 14 --
Elastica sound as good as a rock band could hope to be, even when they're
performing carols for John Peel's Christmas broadcast. The Radio One
Sessions dips off a bit with the sixth radio session -- a set from 1996,
when they added electronica beats while flailing around, trying to find a
way to follow their fluke success -- but it ends on a high note, with their
final session, when they pulled it all together for a fine second effort
that sounded a lot like the first. But all this doesn't hurt what is really
one of the greatest, and most necessary, BBC sessions yet -- yeah, a lot of
this has circulated on bootleg before (after all, Elastica came of age
during the great boot boom of the '90s, when every group had at least five
boots easily available), but this is music so good, it not only deserves to
be out officially, fans won't mind buying it again.