[MP3] Connection – Elastica
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Well, as promised, here’s the first of the Phonogram blogs. The first issue cover is a pastiche of the Elastica (eponymously titled) album from 1995. I’ll admit I didn’t really know much about it at the time, beyond hearing them on the Evening Session as I did my homework – this was when it was on at the very convenient time of 6-8, allowing me to do my homework, and then watch TV with my parents/do other stuff. Then Jo Whiley left, and the time changed and frankly it all went a bit wrong.
Anyway, I digress. Elastica. They became one of those bands I kept meaning to listen to, and never quite got round to. Then Uni came around, with it’s fast internet connection and glorious, glorious Audiogalaxy. I downloaded the album, and discovered it was Quite Good. Predictable as it seems though, Connection was my favourite track. The guitars are…messy for want of a better word, and it’s just an ace song. Reminds me what I like about Britpop, and makes me want to dance around the living room. Which, much to the boys’ dismay, I often do.
Random Elastica ‘trivia’. When I was at school, we had French dictionaries that did that thing of putting a sentence after the word, to show how it was used. The word ‘girlfriend’ had the following sentence (or an approximation) ‘Justine is Damon’s girlfriend.’ This was at the time that Justine from Elastica was dating Damon from Blur, and they were pretty much the poster couple for Britpop. I found it most amusing that the dictionary compiler was able to commemorate this in an academic dictionary. Of course, they split up not that long after…
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