One of the main features of the old indie mp3 site was the featured track of the week and luckily it is the easiest part of the site to transfer to the blog format. Over the next weeks/months I will be posting the tracks that were frequently re-requested from the old archive. However to start the ball rolling I am going to kick off about The Vaselines, a band who for some bizzare reason I never posted in the 30+ months the site was up. Luckily I do not have to rack my brains to write about them as I can lift the entry from Wikipedia.
The Vaselines were an indie rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland. Formed in 1986, the band was originally made up of only Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, but later added James Seenan and Charly Kelly.
The band released two singles, "Son of a Gun" and "Dying for It", prior to releasing an album. In 1989 they released their only album, Dum Dum on the record label Rough Trade. Following the closing of the record label 53rd and 3rd, which they had originally signed to, the band broke up in 1990. However, they reunited for a short time a year later to open for Nirvana when they played in Edinburgh.
Though they were not widely known when the band existed, covers of their songs by Nirvana and Kurt Cobain's tendency to mention them as an influence brought exposure to the band. With their songs "Son of a Gun" and "Molly's Lips" covered on Nirvana's album Incesticide and "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" covered as "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam" on MTV Unplugged in New York, the band gained a new audience from people who wanted to discover the bands that influenced Cobain (a similar situation happened to the band The Meat Puppets). Due to this new exposure, in 1992 Sub Pop released The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History, a compilation that contained The Vaselines' entire body of work on one album.
No longer together, members of the band moved on to new bands. Eugene Kelly went on to found the band Captain America (later renamed Eugenius) and Frances McKee founded the band Suckle. Eugene Kelly currently performs solo. (Via)
Well there is not much to add to that apart from the Sub Pop compilation was re-issued by Avalanche Records with the title "All The Stuff and More" in 1995. Oh and "Son Of A Gun" is one of the greatest records ever made.
The Vaselines - Son Of a Gun
The Vaselines - Jesus Don't Want me For A Sunbeam
Nirvana - Son Of A Gun (Real Audio)
Buy:
The Vaselines - Way Of The Vaselines
The Vaselines - All The Stuff And More
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