The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History

The Vaselines foram uma banda indie/rock/alternativa de Glasgow, Escócia. Surgida em 1986, a banda era inicialmente formada por Eugene Kelly e Frances McKee, mais tarde juntaram-se a eles James Seenan e Charlie Kelly. McKee foi anteriormente integrante da banda The Pretty Flowers com Duglas T. Stewart, Norman Blake e Sean Dickson.

A banda lançou dois EPs, Son of a Gun e Dying for It e um único LP, Dum-Dum, depois de alguns shows, a maioria no Reino Unido, encerraram suas atividades em 1988. No início dos anos 90, voltam a ganhar notoriedade e a receber adjetivos como seminais.

O selo americano Sub Pop reuniu em 1992 todo o material lançado oficialmente pela banda, e lançou a compilação The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History com todas as faixas de seus dois EPs e do único LP em só CD em ordem cronológica.

Os Vaselines são comemorados por músicos e entusiastas de todos os gêneros e em todo o globo, incluindo seu fã mais ilustre, Kurt Cobain, que coverizou "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" com o seu Nirvana em seu Unplugged.

A Sub Pop anunciou o lançamento ainda para este primeiro semestre de 2009, uma edição de luxo de The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History, que terá um novo título, nova capa e o principal, todas as raridades da banda. Aguardemos...

MP3: The Vaselines - Son of a Gun
MP3: The Vaselines - Molly’s Lips
MP3: The Vaselines - Dum Dum
MP3: The Vaselines - Teenage Superstar
MP3: The Vaselines - Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam

Eis a capa e o tracklist de The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History:
1. Son of a Gun
2. Rory Rides me Raw
3. You Think You’re a Man
4. Dying for It**
5. Molly’s Lips
6. Teenage Superstars
7. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam
8. Sex Sux (Amen)
9. Slushy
10. Monsterpussy
11. Bitch
12. No Hope
13. Oliver Twisted
14. The Day I Was a Horse
15. Dum-Dum
16. Hairy
17. Lovecraft
18. Dying for It (The Blues)
19. Let’s get Ugly

Release: The Vaselines were born out of the bored and very sick minds of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee. They were later joined by Eugene's brother Charles on drums and James Seenan on bass. We only wanted to have some fun. We were friends of Stephan from "The Pastels" and he introduced us to Sandy McClean with whom he had set up a label "53rd & 3rd." Stephan took us under his wing and produced our first two singles as we had no studio experience whatsoever. The first single was the first time we had ever been in a studio. We were camp and pretended to be sleazy and we were very drunk. Vaselines rehearsals involved meeting in the pub and talking about. James would often turn up and realise his bass was locked in a bar we used to drink in. Charlie turned up once without drum sticks and then constructed some from bamboo sticks, two nails and lots of tape. We soldiered on until 53rd & 3rd went bust. The band split the week the album was eventually released with help from Rough Trade. We were bored, had no money and sick of it. We hoped someone would get the joke. They did and we live on. [Eugenuis K.]

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