The Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines

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5...according to our Brett on Thu 30 Apr, 2009.

Kurt Cobain bummed The Vaselines and quite rightly so, they're brilliant. Like a gift from a shiny happy New Testament God, Sub Pop (who else?) have seen fit to issue a deluxe collection of basically everything you're ever gonna need by the band. You can buy this one, look at it, go "I never need to buy another Vaselines record in my life" then get around to listening to and falling in love with the gloriously odd indie fuzzpop gems contained in this lovingly remastered set. All the tunes made famous via their Nirvana versions are present and correct as well as their own masterpiece of a cover 'You Think You're a Man', an immense disco stomper originally recorded by mental transsexual John Waters muse Divine. Load up your purchase pistol and unload a full clip of lead currency death into Enter the Vaselines until the job's fucking done. It's well cheap in either of its handsomly packaged double CD or triple LP incarnations and almost definitely the best thing ever. NO LIE.

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The Vaselines have long been celebrated by musicians and indie rock enthusiasts across the globe, including superfan Kurt Cobain, while remaining underappreciated by the mainstream. Enter The Vaselines is the definitive triple LP/double CD Vaselines collection. It includes new mixes and
re-mastered versions of material previously available on The Way of the Vaselines, plus never-before-heard demos, and live recordings from 1986 in Bristol and 1988 in London.

This new collection is effectively a deluxe-edition reissue of the 1992 Sub Pop release The Way of The Vaselines with a new title and new cover art from the band, and a whole lot of new material (the entirety of the 17-song second CD/third LP has been added). Originally mastered from a cassette
tape, The Way of The Vaselines compiled the band’s two EPs (Son of a Gun and Dying for It) and their sole LP release (Dum-Dum). Enter The Vaselines is the definitive triple LP/double CD Vaselines collection. It includes new mixes and re-mastered versions of everything by The Vaselines, plus never-before-heard demos, and live recordings from 1986 in Bristol and 1988 in London.

Triple vinyl - single wide sleeve.

The vinyl tracklisting reflects the way this music was released initially. Side 1 of LP1 contains the songs that originally appeared on the Son of a Gun EP. Side 2 is comprised of material from the Dying For It EP. LP2 is basically their original full length album Dum Dum.

Track Listing:

Disc 1 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

Disc 2 1. Son of a Gun (demo) 2. Rosary Job (demo) 3. Red Poppy (demo) 4. Son of a Gun (Live in Bristol, 1986) 5. Rosary Job (Live in Bristol, 1986) 6. Red Poppy (Live in Bristol, 1986) 7. Rory Rides Me Raw (Live in Bristol, 1986) 8. You Think You're a Man (Live in Bristol, 1986) 9. Dying for It (Live in London, 1988) 10. Monsterpussy (Live in London, 1988) 11. Let's Get Ugly (Live in London, 1988) 12. Molly's Lips (Live in London, 1988) 13. The Day I Was a Horse (Live in London, 1988) 14. The Day I Was a Horse (Again) (Live in London, 1988) 15. Sex Sux (Amen) (Live in London, 1988) 16. I Didn't Know I Loved You ('Til I Saw You Rock 'n' Roll) (Live in London, 1988) 17. Teenage Superstars (Live in London, 1988)

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