The Vaselines
Conventional wisdom dictates that the Vaselines might have been relegated to footnote status were it not for Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who regularly cited the little-known Scottish quartet's influence in interviews with the music press. Cobain's gospel-spreading no doubt accelerated their rise to cult sainthood, but truth be told, the Vaselines would have gotten there sooner or later on their own accord -- lewd but nanve and abrasive yet tender, the band's shambling, primitivist squall remains a perfect distillation of pop at its most guileless and euphoric. The...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2009! 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 collection. 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.
3xLP $22.98
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Insound Staff Pick - 2009! 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 double CD collection. 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.[ read more ]
2xCD $16.99
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This is a 12" x 18" poster for the July 10, 2008 Vaselines show at Southpaw in Brooklyn.
Poster $16.99
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Kurt Cobain made a lot of mistakes in his life but loving the Vaselines was not one of them. Nirvana covered one of their songs for their MTV Unplugged session, two other covers show up on the [ read more ]
MP3 $10.49
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