There is an officially released album called "The Radio One Sessions" that contain most of the songs here. But most, not all. Three songs, "Never Here," "Father Christmas" and "Blue," are unreleased. I don't know why they weren't on that official album, since they're from the same exact sessions as some of the songs that were included.
But there was an even bigger problem with that official release, in my opinion: the vocals were mixed too low. Perhaps that was a band decision rather than a BBC decision, since I've noticed this problem with some of their studio recordings too. But whatever the case may be, I used an audio editing program to boost the vocals relative to the instruments, and it sounds significantly better now. Three songs have "[Edit]" in their titles because I had to take some extra editing steps to make those ones sound better.
Since Elastica only released two studio albums before breaking up, these BBC recordings are a key part of their discography. Everything here sounds excellent, and there are some songs that didn't appear on either of those albums.
This album is 37 minutes long.
01 Annie [Edit] (Elastica)
02 Spastica [Edit] (Elastica)
03 Line Up (Elastica)
04 Vaseline (Elastica)
05 Brighton Rock (Elastica)
06 In the City (Elastica)
07 Waking Up (Elastica)
08 Never Here (Elastica)
09 Car Song (Elastica)
10 Hold Me Now (Elastica)
11 Ba Ba Ba [Bar Bar Bar] (Elastica)
12 Father Christmas [Cleopatra with Alternate Lyrics] (Elastica)
13 Blue [Edit] (Elastica)
14 Gloria (Elastica)
15 I Wanna Be a King of Orient Aah (Elastica)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15343206/Elastca_1993-1994_BBSessionsVolum1_atse.zip.html
The cover photo is a promo photo taken in Brussels, Belgium, in April 1995.
Thanks. Looking forward to the next 2.
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