h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not so long ago I was wondering ... whatever became of those gals? What was their name, again, and what was that nice single of theirs? And voilà, you conventiently provide all the answers, and more, with this entry! Thanks!

Now, if only I can remember how "Connection" actually went...

...if you watch "trigger happy TV" on Channel:4 on Fridays, "Connection" is used as the intro music. It was also used recently for a few ads, I think...

Trigger Happy TV? Channel 4? I live in South Africa and we have only three TV channels!

...oh dear, that sounds awful.


...can't you get cable or something...?

...anyway, you obviously have internet access so why not just listen to it on Napster.com or another MP3 site. 'Tis easy my friend!

Oh yeah, right! There are lots of songs I still wanna go search out, but so far downloading MP3's hasn't been my prime objective! I'll go check. As for TV, I don't like it very much. The 'net is very nice, though!

Well, now I remember two things again!

1) The problem with Connection: it's too short! It starts brilliantly, but it ought to go on longer! Remedy: play it at least twice in a row.

2) The problem with MP3's: my computer, modem and shoddy third-world server seem unable to somehow make the vital connection and it takes me at least twenty tries and a total of eight hundred hours on average before I manage to download a single song!

But after a long and hard and epic struggle I did manage to download the song. What other Elastica songs are really good, if you don't mind my asking?

...oooh! there are so many I wouldn't know where to begin!

...their first eponymous LP is a rather punkish, speedy affair with lots of Connection- style numbers (with the exception maybe of "Hold me Now", "Never here", "Indian Song" and "Car Lover") but their follow up, "The Menace" is a smorgasborg of lovely little numbers. It isn't as easily digested as its predecessor but when swallowed in little bolus's it can be a very satisfying meal. "My sex", "How he wrote E.L.A.S.T.I.C.A.M.A.N", "Mad dog", "Da Da Da" etc....lovely.

I'm going to try and see what I can get sometime, four o'clock in the morning someday this week probably (then it goes a little bit faster).

Yay, Elastica fans!!!

The article isn't quite finished yet. :-
Elastica are still around, people! They toured in the summer last year, but I'm not too sure what they're doing right now.

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(Don't forget the most amazing song on the Menace - Your A*** My Place!!)

The reason Elastica's songs are so short is thus:

"I have a low boredom threshold. I want the best bits, verse-chorus,
verse-chorus, that's it. The whole thing of playing two middle- eighths and triple choruses to finish isn't music, it's brainwashing. It's like an ad device to sell a song. If you want to hear the chorus again, rewind it." - Justine Frischmann.

And since Elastica is Justine's group, she calls all the shots..

Anyone still writing this entry?

Is anyone going to put it through Peer Review? I'm writing an Entry on Blur, and would like to link to this.

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